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Sunday 9 December 2012

Adriano Zumbo Pâtissier, Pyrmont


The very famous Zumbo. There's not much I can say that will add to the ridiculously inflated hype and it's very much well deserved for the man behind the dessert empire. I've been keeping a close eye on his creations since his humble little store in Balmain in 2007 and his desserts have impressed Australia nationally for their inventive whimsicality. 

There's a Zumbo dessert train jacked on a child's imagination with all the accompanying fluorescent rainbow coloured playground gears at The Star that I've been itching to try out for a while. On the day, there's a little more than half a dozen desserts on display today in miniature form ripe for the picking, literally. 


Chocolate Coffee Brulee 6
Deconstructed brulees don't quite do it for me. Nothing quite like the joy of holding a cup and piercing the crisp sugar shard into soft custard. Nevertheless it's a classic combination with the coffee not too overpowering and the chocolate brownie made well but in the end it's just a deconstructed brulee, nothing more nothing less.


Violet Crunchie 6
The best thing here on the day in my opinion comes in the form of a Violet Crumble/ Crunchie mashup that's the best of both worlds. There's the melt in your mouth violet bavarois, a shard of honeycomb and a chantilly cream that was just made together in perfect matrimony.


Hazelnut Dacquoise 6
I also enjoyed the hazelnut dacquoise there although it was all too reminscent of a ferrero rocher in cake form.





The prices are reasonable with plates ranging between 5 to 10 dollars but the sizes can be a bit tiny but you are paying for a premium location and also the evidently premium name. Overall the food did feel a bit... boring and missing something although I did admittedly pick the more conservative dishes. I'm speaking this from years of experience and they did really fail to wow. A bit of novelty more than anything else, I think next time I'll just go buy some of the more successful cakes from the adjacent Zumbo store and eat them at the food court.


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