Lynda Ingham-Brown

Food
Chef Mike Basset continues to impress with his deft fusion cuisine. The great-value, seven-course dinner tasting menu (with optional wine pairing) showcases his seamless combination of ingredients from east and west, with most of these items available on the à la carte menu, too. Start with the likes of salty Bosmans air-dried ham with creamy Puglia burrata, truffled white peach and preserved yellow tomato. It’s so good you'll want to lick the plate clean.

The grilled, hand-diced Woodview Wagyu with porcini dust and tomato chipotle is a strong act to follow, as is the squid-ink spaghetti with salmon ‘bacon’ and yuzu pearls that explode in the mouth, cutting perfectly through the fish's salty richness. For mains, choose between the likes of chimichurri beef with white mushroom ‘mac and cheese’ sauce, bone marrow, oxtail jus and crisp potato ‘laces’, or Vietnamese aromatic lamb with an Asian-pear dipping sauce and red cabbage purée.

Desserts change often, but you might encounter the likes of sago pudding with passion-fruit sorbet, meringue shards and toasted coconut, or a chocolate mousse dome with banana caramel and sorbet, marshmallow, burnt white chocolate and caramel pearls.

Drinks
An excellent selection of local wines, MCC, French Champagne and spirits, plus artisanal beers, cocktails and soft drinks.

Service
Attentive, friendly and knowledgable.

Ambience
Myoga is a modern, stylish space with a view into the circular open kitchen.

And…
Stay overnight at the hotel and visit the spa the next day to relax.

(August 2017)

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