Food for your; stomach.

Bang! Due to its price, location and often hit&miss food, Taxi is a very love/hate restaurant. Down at eatability the ratings fairly average due to these love (10/10 in everything) and hates (2/10 in everything). I decided to stuff Matteo’s and go here because, well I really felt like wagyu :D and apparently it is devine. I had fairly high expectations and well, some of it did exceed it, however some parts like the dessert and some mains just made it fell off the mark.

The service was really EUGHH. Sure the dude had a cool name and a funky haircut, but he really did not give a crap. He was largely inattentive and took about 15 mins. to clear our mains and I couldn’t even FIND him to ask for water.

We started off with this “game consomme with truffle oil” which in a sense was just chicken broth with truffle oil.. which was.. dissapointing seeing as it came in the cutest little glass. (I forgot the picture, very unexciting though, don’t worry)

Entrees:

We then went on to entrees, which was excellent, but of course during my first time I forgot to take pictures as I got wayy too excited.

This was a “seared” (I couldn’t see any searing) kingfish sashimi with a ponzu jelly, salsa verde and a daikon salad. This was a literal *party* in my mouth. The fish is very fresh and the ponzu give it that acidic kick while the salsa just took it up.

This was a special: oyster served with.. something in the lines of caviar, garlic and also salsa verde. They were good, fresh and had a good YUM factor.

Unfortunately this is all the entree pictures :( as I got way to excited. But JB ordered a sushi/sashimi entree which was not bad at all.

Mains:

Josh being Josh, he ordered the freakin 500g t-bone. Even the waiter was like here’s your half a kilogram of MEAT. Those white things on the top was bone marrow, I didn’t really notice the Bordelaise sauce as descripted though.. It was a very good piece of meat, cooked perfectly medium rare. Good contender for BM.

This was another special by the name of something in the lines of “Barramundi with a crapload of unnecessary elements.”. I mean look; there was a scallop wrapped in bacon on one side and avocado puree, some kind of crab salad on top of a fairly dry piece of fish, a honey mustard sauce and weird looking tomatoes. It was miss :S

This was yet another special, a honey roasted suckling pig with a honey(omg) sauce served with a shitake and green bean salad. That little piece was succulent, tender and the crackling was impeccable. The “roulade” of pork was dry, and inside some kind of failed stuffing and a roll of soggy crackling. It was probably the biggest hit&miss dish.

My dish: This one was definitely the right choice. “Wagyu porterhouse marble score 7+ with horseradish cream & yakiniku” was the description. It was ridiculously good. The meat just melted in your mouth, tender yet with a slight bite that feels like fairies, a rich meaty taste and the horseradish&yakiniku sauce just made it. The salad was okay I got way to distracted by the meat factor. BM, easy.

Dessert:

Look they were average, but we either ordered all the wrong dishes, or it is just plain bad. Here are some pictures though:

Strawberry souffle was undercooked and the balsamic gelato was rodonculously sweet. The “chocolate tain” was just an ice cream/mousee combo.

Look it’s not the best restaurant in Melbourne, it is quite pricey and can be a hit&miss, but the wagyu’s incredible and so is the view.