Perth Food Review

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When we arrived at Allure we were seated extremely close to another couple and it wasn’t exactly as we had imagined our romantic evening. The gentleman (I use the term quite loosely) at the adjacent table was a bit intoxicated and talking quite loudly, and at one point he squashed a flying insect on the table making my wife jump. We politely asked to be seated elsewhere, not really caring where. There were many tables of two available and we thought it would be no problem, however, we were told that there was some organising necessary to juggle the tables around. We enquired why, as we were not going to be taking up any more space just a different space. A member of staff responded, “Well perhaps whoever we seat at this table won’t want to sit here either”...

We were seated at another table eventually and presented with our menus and some appetiser type dishes, cold tomato soup, olives and bread and butter. All these items were quite enjoyable. We ordered some drinks and after about 15 minutes ordered our entrees. Believe me I am not exaggerating at all here, our entrees arrived about 3 minutes after we placed our order. Our drinks were still absent at this stage. When the waiter arrived he thought he had the wrong table as we were so surprised, but it was the correct order. We ordered the smoked salmon pasta with salmon pearls and a champagne sauce, and a Caesar salad with confit chicken, prawns and a soft boiled egg. Both dishes were reasonable, the pasta was a tad too salty.

In complete inconsistency with the speed of arrival of our entrees it took an extraordinary amount of time to clear our plates and bring forth our spectacularly disappointing mains. We ordered the pork belly with prawns and a sweet and sour sauce, and an Avon valley beef fillet with a cray tail. Both dishes were very lacklustre and poorly executed. The prawns and crayfish were suspiciously powdery in parts and the crayfish was smothered in wild mushrooms, I thought that was not at all complementary or necessary. On the plus side my glass of wine I ordered was quite pleasant, a Clairault Cab Sav.

At this point we were fairly keen to vacate the premises and the chocolate fondant I had eyed up on the desert menu earlier would have to find another mouth to call home. We requested the bill and headed for the cashier. As is customary the lady taking our money asked if we enjoyed our meal, I couldn’t help but say “no, it was average”. She looked a bit shocked and asked what the problem was. I highlighted a few deficiencies in the food and she said, “oh well, that’s good to know, I’ll pass that on to the kitchen.”

We were expecting great things from Allure, we were sadly mistaken and disappointed.

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