Well known by many for its bar (I hear they serve fantastic cocktails) Morris Jones also offers a menu which is worth drooling over. So after much debate, we decided to share the beetroot with holy goats curd, almonds and passionfruit ($18.50), the zucchini flowers with red pepper hummus, hazelnuts and mizuna ($19), the Spring lamb with Spring greens and goats milk ($34) and the truffle mac and cheese ($10.50).
With its sparse speckles of passionfruit and paper thin wafers / tiny nubs of beetroot, the beetroot with goats curd, whilst beautiful, lacked in acidity and / or tartness to cut through the richness of the goats curd (and there was A LOT of goats curd).
Both the zucchini flowers and the Spring lamb were plated beautifully. The lamb was cooked well, and the red pepper hummus added a delicious element to the zucchini flowers. The truffled mac'n'cheese, however, was underwhelming and I won't be ordering it as a side dish again.
For desert we shared the violet crumble and a 'pop' each. The pop was a piece of candied orange covered in popping candy. The popping candy was definitely an exciting touch, but otherwise, the 'pop' tasted quite ordinary. In terms of the violet crumble, we asked the waitress whether we could order the dish seeing as I was allergic to chocolate - she replied by saying it would be perfectly fine for the kitchen to segment the dish as only a small element was chocolate (which could be put to the side). What we got was a bowl of violet ice-cream, and a stream of honeycomb atop a bed of chocolate - meaning that the honeycomb was contaminated (why not just put it to the side??) and all I could eat was the violet ice-cream - very disappointing.
Overall, there were some beautiful elements to many of the dishes - however, if I do go back, I definitely won't be ordering desert.
Food: 3/5
Service: 4/5
Décor: 4/5
Total: 11/15
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