Sydney's Best Dishes in 2007
2007 year in review - the dishes that rocked
1. Catalonia's morcilla with asparagus and fried duck egg The egg plunges like a protein comet through the deep frier only to be broken at the table in a wave of saffron coloured yolk over blood sausage. Kirribilli
2. Rockpool's mud crab Served with nowt but a linen bib, this QLD mud crab could change the world with its pure, sweet flesh. We can die happy now. The Rocks
3. Bistrode's fried duck egg with sourdough crumbs and pine mushrooms The beauty of the Strode's food is in its simplicity - a bed of pine 'shrooms, a fried egg and a few crumbs and yet it works in complete harmony. Surry Hills
4. Glebe Point Diner's Oaks organic roast chook Totally organic and the happiest hens on earth (they're driven around on a bus to roost on different sits around the property!) are these. All they've been given is a roasting. ?Glebe
5. Bentley Restaurant & Bar's chickpea chips Jenga shaped fingers of pureed chickpea are coated in besan flour and deep fried until crisp on the outside and fluffy on the inside. Surry Hills
6. A Tavola's olives a Ascolana Just like a little Italian style Scotch egg, it's an olive swaddled in pork mince, crumbed then fried. Bliss. ?Darlinghurst
7. Jasmins' felafels Crisp and salty on the outside, soft and moist on the inside, they beat the hell out of all those dried-out balls of nothing you find so often in restaurants around town. ? Lakemba
8. Mado's Maras ice cream The Mado folks claim it's the only ice cream you can eat with a knife and fork. And they're spot on - the consistency is bizarre and it tastes faintly like orchids. Auburn
9. Jugemu & Shimbashi's cold soba with duck fillet broth This wonderful little restaurant has a guy on the payroll whose sole job it is to make the noodles. And what a job he does - these are slurptacular. Neutral Bay
10. Guzman y Gomez' pork adobado burrito Strips of spicy pork, melted cheese, beans and rice all wrapped up in a soft tortilla to sublime effect. Hell yeah! Newtown
