Cocoro
Highly recommended tasting menu at Cocoro in Ponsonby, Auckland. I’ve never seen Japanese food prepared with so much care and passion like they do at Cocoro.
Everything there came with a surprising contemporary twist, whilst retaining the simple, clean flavors you’d expect from Japanese food.
Colour me impressed.
“Omotenashi” cocoro degustation dinner [extracted from cocoro.co.nz]
“Yokoso”
Marinated octopus served with ‘Wakame’ seaweed and cucumber
“Zensai”
Mahurangi harbour oyster with ponzu vinegar Akaroa salmon sashimi premium tuna nigiri sushi
“Shiizakana”
‘Shiki-Tofu’ with diced free range chicken and vegetable Gratin of scallop, Paradise prawn, and oyster, sauce Moro-Miso New Zealand whitebait ‘Chawanmushi’
“Mushimono”
Steamed Akaroa salmon and snapper, exotic leaves, Japanese mushrooms, giant kelp pepper with ‘Kabosu’ citrus soy vineger
“Yakimono”
Organic spring lamb rack slow roasted at 68°C Served with asparagus, ‘Kinome’ oil,‘Sansho’ Balsa-Miso sauce
“Betsubara”
Strawberry roulade, hint of ‘Kokuto’ dark cane sugar, sauce hot choc House made vanilla ice cream, ginger fragrance Black sesami Crème Brûlée
