13 December 2013

S is for SCAMPI & SQUDI INK PASTA at SOUL BAR

Yesterday I hosted a Japanese food writer and her photographer from the Japanese magazine ELLE AT TABLE. We ate lunch at Soul Bar on the terrace, underneath those amazing baskets of hanging flowers, overlooking the Viaduct Basin on a calm summery day. I cannot think of a better way to show Auckland's finest attributes.

We ate omakase style; the owner Judith Tabron picked the dishes for us and sent out kingfish, tuna, snapper, salt and pepper squid, goat cheese ravioli and whitebait fritters. But the star of the show (despite the fact that the Soul kitchen churns out more than 450 portions of that squid a week) was the dish pictured above.

Scampi on squid ink pasta with salmon roe and micro greens. Perfection! if you're headed to Soul over the next few days, do not miss this delicate and yet tasty dish. I really lucked out for the S Day! Squid ink pasta, Scampi and Soul. Very sibilant.