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For our fifth wedding anniversary, Jen had a weekend away on the Sunshine Coast at Noosa.\u00a0 For the uninitiated, Noosa Heads is a relaxing, sun-soaked holiday destination that is spoiled with pristine beaches and lush green hinterlands.\u00a0 Noosa Heads also has more than its fair share of excellent dining destinations too.\u00a0 When it comes to fine dining in this region, Ricky’s, Berardo’s and Wasabi all regularly feature in the annual Queensland Good Food Guide.<\/p>\n

For our anniversary dinner we went to Danielle Gjestland’s Wasabi – a celebrated two hat restaurant that mixes high quality local produce with traditional Japanese dishes.<\/p>\n

We had the nine course omakase menu.\u00a0 It was absolutely sublime.\u00a0 Each course was beautifully presented and full of flavour.\u00a0 The dishes were complimented by ‘matching beverages’ that extended the normal wine pairing to include sake, soju, whisky and cocktails.\u00a0 It was an interesting creative wrinkle to the normal proceedings and it also lead to Jen and I getting pretty hammered by the time the dessert course rolled around.<\/p>\n

All in all, a memorable evening of top quality food and drink.<\/p>\n

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\nspanner crab, nagaima potato, dashi, radish<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nfresh wasabi that you grated yourself was made available with each course<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nbar cod, Osaka mustard leaf, nasturtium vinegar, cumquat<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nyellowfin tuna, mitsuba, shima wasabi<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nocean trout, ikura, ayu shoyu<\/em><\/p>\n

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\norganic soba noodles, legumes, kinoko mushroom, mushroom tea, tonburi seeds<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nsakana, seri leaf, satsuma potato, yuzu emulsion<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nbincho-tain quail, carrot tops, watermelon radish, persimmon<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nwagyu, miso glazed carrots, bunya nut, mustard seed<\/em><\/p>\n

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\ncumquat sorbet palette cleanser<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nchocolate parfait, pear, ice cream<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sunshine Coast’s finest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,415],"tags":[2053,2052],"class_list":["post-16014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-food-and-drink","tag-noosa","tag-wasabi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16089,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014\/revisions\/16089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}