Our dinner lasst Friday at E'cco.....

Dinner at E’cco http://www.eccobistro.com/default.html was really nice. It was a great night regardless of anything else as we were both in a great mood, lots of talking and laughing. Now I need to talk about the place and the food as usual.
 
Food. The food was great. They must use the very best produce because I still remember the taste of most things today, one day later. Lovely combinations of food and perfectly cooked lamb and salmon..... Yum. No baby portions either, it was not too much but not too little either, it was just right... (would have tasted even better with nicer decor)

Decor. The decor was a bit dull. Bit too casual for my liking. Not that everything has to be posh and have squeaky clean white linen everywhere but this is after all one of Brisbane’s top restaurants and the interior just did not reflect it. More of a casual local bistro feel than a nice restaurant. All they have to do is update the interior and it would have a better feel I believe.  

Service. The service did not let us down. Everyone was friendly and helpful. High scores for service!

 What did we eat;

Entre for me; field mushrooms, olive toast, rocket, parmesan, truffle oil & lemon whilst jon had the duck, rabbit & foie gras terrine, quince, candied pecans & brioche. I absolutely loved my entre. Could eat it every day. Sounds simple but the different flavours just melted in my mouth. Very clever and great produce. The mushrooms were excellent.... As a matter of fact I am still thinking about the dish and remembering the flavours, today, one day later. 10 out of 10.  J’s dish looked so much better than mine (mine really just looked as a pile of rocket) and he said it was to die for. He even said the terrine could be eaten as is with no bread or condiments. Sounds good to me. No i did not taste the dish, apparently I am supposed to stay away from foie gras.... boohoo.

For mains I had the grilled salmon, potato rösti, green beans, chilli, garlic,pancetta & horseradish cream and J had milly hill lamb loin, celeriac purée, du puy lentils & watercress. The salmon was wonderful, the potato rösti was ok. Maybe because of my heritage (I have eaten a lot of potato rösti in my life) I have had better. But hey, it was nice and to anyone else probably top notch. Green beans cooked to perfection and the horseradish cream delish! J was more than happy with his lamb this one also cooked to perfection. He also mentioned the jus which apparently was something out of this world. He also enjoyed a couple of glasses of lovely red. (I am always the driver these days hehe) 

 For Sides we had: roast sweet corn, pecorino, chipotle mayonnaise and one of the best potato wedges/chips I have had in ages. Nothing else to say really, delicious however the sweet corn a bit hard to eat. I mean how do you prevent the corn from falling off the plate  when you are trying to get the corn off the cob? And you clearly can’t pick it up and eat with your hands (this is not a pub).

Anyway, really scrumptious food. So much that we did not get to dessert. I knoooow this rarely happens but after all of the above we were stuffed.... Had some peppermint tea instead and that was it. I am happy we went and we had a top night. Would I go again. Hm yes, but with other expectations than I had this time.