I have been dying to go to 'Scorched' for months and, thanks to a very generous wedding gift, I finally got the chance last Friday night. This is a fab little restaurant overlooking the Torquay beach. The service was impeccable, friendly yet sophisticated, and thoroughly on the ball.
I think I have mentioned before my love of all foods shared, so the 'grazing' style menu was a perfect option for us. So while enjoying some delicious local sourdough bread sticks with olive oil and house-made dukkah we perused the menu.
Our final selections were as follows:
Grated beetroot, with pistachios and goats cheese - a really fresh dish, with hints of lemon juice and dill, and complimented beautifully by the creamy cheese.
Crispy fried school prawns with chilli salt and lemon (shown above) - we loved these little guys. Crispy and salty and just popped straight in your mouth... divine.
Salt cod fritters with aioli - always a hero, these were no exception.
Fried black pudding with orange and date salad - I was definitely dubious of this one, having the aversion to sweet with salty, and also having had some not so flash black pudding in the past, this one was a real surprise. The pudding was quite nice (not at all gritty), but when eaten with the date and orange salad it gave it a real subtlety, and the sweetness complemented the dish so well, I may be a changed woman.
Little rabbit pies with sweet cinnamon - again with the sweet and salty, these were really good. The meat was juicy and tender, and not that dissimilar form our guinea pig experience, but the cinnamon mix just lifted all the flavours and made these little filo parcels taste quite exotic.
Potatoes, chorizo and garlic - an old tapas faithful, but with some fabulous chorizo with just the right amount of spice to it.
While there were definitely a few challenges for my 'no sweet with salty' I have to admit everything was amazing, and I was really enlightened by some of the combinations.
Of course, what is a dinner out without dessert? Well, being both unbelievably indecisive we shared the dessert board: Chocolate and pear torte, baklava, Turkish delight, honeycomb ice-cream and Persian fairy floss - all good enough to almost put us into a diabetic coma.
'Scorched' has definitely lived up to my expectations; please go there if you get the chance xx
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