William Blue Brasserie, North Sydney

 Hi Everyone!
So, yesterday I went to William Blue Brasserie at North Sydney. It is actually a restaurant made for the college, William Blue College. Their area of expertise is their hospitality, including cooking.  This restaurant is a fine dining restaurant, where the students cook so they can have like a training in a restaurant industry. Because it is the students who cook, the price of eating here is very cheap, I spent $28 for a fine dining experience, which is great.
 When we came, it was not actually a big restaurant, but you got a feeling of fine dining restaurant, the tables, candles, wine glasses and so on. You can also see the kitchen which was quite interesting. Then, there are some menus that we can choose from the 3 meals menu, on tray, main and dessert. So, I chose King salmon pastrami, celeriac, apple and crab remoulade as the on tray, Roast pork, colcannon croquette, apple sauce and crackling as main and Sauterness custard, bitter caramel, poached pear and honey Madeleine as desserts, and as the sides I ordered Rocket, cherry tomato, bocconcini and pesto salad.

After ordering, we were served with a piece of bread with butter which was quite good to fill the empty stomach. Then, the first dish came out, the on tray, salmon pastrami. I tried it and it was quite plain, then I drizzled the lemon around it, then it came out very good! So, don't ever forget the lemon! The texture of the celeriac, remoulade and the salmon itself mixed really well. I just can't get enough of it.
Then, the next dish, as main came out. I was so excited with the crackling because it looked so crispy and at the end, it does taste very good. When you cut it with the knife it just cracked (I so wanted to just eat it by hand, but well, fine dining you know..). The apple sauce was such a compliment to the dish with the sauce as well. The cabbage also went well with the overall dish. But, I think the croquette is too heavy, I don't know. Then, the rocket salad came out. I thought it was not very good. It was so blend, lacking some sort of vinegar or something. The bocconcini did not have a strong flavour too. So it was a bit blend. And interestingly, in the menu it says pesto, but I could not see or taste any pesto in it.

Then, the heavenly dessert came out. When it came to the table, I was so excited. I wanted to just tuck in. The poached pear is very good, cooked very well. But I think the star is the sauterness custard. Unlike any other custard that I have tried, this was not sweet, but quite bitter, maybe they put some liquor inside but it was so goooodddd... Especially when the all three elements are combined, it went very well. The texture of the custard is also very smooth. It was just heaven.
So, overall, it was not bad at all for $28! The menu is changing every semester so it will be exciting to have a second visit next time.
Also remember that booking is necessary. Booking can be done through their website William Blue Dining.