Restaurant Week - Fremantle Seafood market

This is the 2nd time i am visiting Fremantle, the 1st time being an experimental visit when they first opened. However, as the prices were a little high and the food isnt exactly phenomenal, i didnt bother coming back again. This session of Restaurant Week was so popular, especially with the higher end restaurants, that even having the privilege of 2 days priority booking before the general public, i still couldnt manage to get a place in the restaurants i was aiming for. However, not wanting to miss out on this event, ended up giving Fremantle 1 more chance, as the menu they were offering is pretty worth it for the price they were charging. 

Restaurant Week dinner menu at $35++

Sashimi platter (salmon, hamachi, tuna) - pretty fresh and thickness of the portion is just nice

Crab cakes - quite a disappointment, crab taste wasn't evident, it just tasted like fried begedil without the potato

Dry Aged Beef steak - Nicely done medium-rare, the meat was pretty tender and there wasn't much fat or veins in this cut. Went quite well with the capers on the side, but the stone salt was abit too salty for the meat. Asparagus mushroom ragout was creamy and a nice compliment to the meat. Bone marrow was forgettable.

Teriyaki Salmon Trout - fish was very nicely done, retaining its moisture in the meat. Even for a person that avoids cooked salmon like me, it is really good, even without the teriyaki sauce. Didnt try the fried oyster on the side, so cant comment. Just for information, the little brown pastry next to the fish is called Gougeres, which is a french cheese pastry, not too bad tasting.

Almond paraline cheesecake with caramel sauce and almond ice cream - not too bad too, the cheesecake was not cloying-ly sweet or rich, and goes well with the cold almond ice cream which is something special (imagine almond cream dessert frozen into an ice cream). The caramel sauce kinda pales in comparison.

Overall, not too bad for the price we pay, comparing to their usual menu prices. One glitch is that we got "cheated" into ordering a drink because i remember the waitress telling me that drinks are included in the set (which i dun remember so for other restuarants which i tried in the past), and so we ordered a drink each and end up having to pay for it. Oh well, a lesson learnt.

Stay tuned for the next Restaurant week a few months later!