Jason King
AmyHuangSpecc Cafe and Restaurant
February 21st 2007 00:35
344 Clovelly Rd Clovelly 2031 - (02) 9664 7888
Specc is a modern cafe/restaurant in Clovelly, in a nice modern set up. It's a front room with a semi-open kitchen lining the back wall, and the waiters are all very friendly. And as a bonus, it's in the Entertainment Book. The food is a modern mix, heavily meat based, but with Euro flavours. Costs $50 a person for 3 courses, but very good quality.
Pumpkin and ricotta ravioli with sage browned butter sauce. Best dish of the night, the sauce isn't too heavy for a butter sauce, but very fine, and goes brilliantly with the fresh ravioli.
Pasta with prawns, capers, leeks and a lemon cream sauce. Very well cooked spaghetti with fresh flavours, and prawns good quality.
Pork fillet with spinach and apple sauce. Great idea, nice spinach, but pork a little dry, and sauce a little sweet. Still, thats usually the problem with pork.
Veal loin with parsnip and celeriac rosti, asparagus, and pepper sauce. Excellent sauce, great meat, but not a fan of asparagus generally. Which is ok, cos I didnt order this dish! Interesting rosti, lost some crispiness under the sauce, but still good. I still cant understand why everyone makes rosti as a kind of potato cake, when it should be loose slivers of potato (or celeriac or whatever).
Can highly recommend Specc as a quality place to eat locally; and apparently it does excellent alfresco breakfasts and lunches during the day. If you count yourself as a Clovelly, or even simply Eastern local, go check it out.
Specc is a modern cafe/restaurant in Clovelly, in a nice modern set up. It's a front room with a semi-open kitchen lining the back wall, and the waiters are all very friendly. And as a bonus, it's in the Entertainment Book. The food is a modern mix, heavily meat based, but with Euro flavours. Costs $50 a person for 3 courses, but very good quality.
Pumpkin and ricotta ravioli with sage browned butter sauce. Best dish of the night, the sauce isn't too heavy for a butter sauce, but very fine, and goes brilliantly with the fresh ravioli.
Pasta with prawns, capers, leeks and a lemon cream sauce. Very well cooked spaghetti with fresh flavours, and prawns good quality.
Pork fillet with spinach and apple sauce. Great idea, nice spinach, but pork a little dry, and sauce a little sweet. Still, thats usually the problem with pork.
Veal loin with parsnip and celeriac rosti, asparagus, and pepper sauce. Excellent sauce, great meat, but not a fan of asparagus generally. Which is ok, cos I didnt order this dish! Interesting rosti, lost some crispiness under the sauce, but still good. I still cant understand why everyone makes rosti as a kind of potato cake, when it should be loose slivers of potato (or celeriac or whatever).
Can highly recommend Specc as a quality place to eat locally; and apparently it does excellent alfresco breakfasts and lunches during the day. If you count yourself as a Clovelly, or even simply Eastern local, go check it out.
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Well I'll have to go back and see!