L’enclume Sydney popup

Man this was amazing, Sydney being such a (relatively) small, far away city we don’t really get restaurants at the level of L’enclume, so I was crazy excited when they had a competition for a comp’d lunch for hospitality workers. This was their second pop up in Sydney, along with the second time partnering up with bathers pavilion, which makes sense because jeez they have the perfect view of Sydney harbour. What really stood out to me is the way Simon Rogan (and Aaron Ward, lovely guy) played with temperature and, more notably, flavour, I swear that the John Dory’s sauce had like, 3 different clearly distinct flavours all layered over each other which was insane to me. Stand out dish for me though was the marron and the buttermilk sauce, I’m a sucker for marron but again the flavour development of the sauce knocked it out of the park for me. Their little signature dessert thing was bomb too, could eat it forever. Also, not sure if this is like just a fine dining thing but all their flatware was handmade by a blacksmith where possible and the rest was still made for them specially, which is just insane to me because like, how is it at all financially viable to get 14 custom plates plus a charger and maybe 6-8 seperate sets of cutlery for a few week long pop up. Anyway, amazing time and hope I get to try the og some day