Seasalt Dining is located underneath ‘The Hub’ apartments in Bruce (the next one over from Ellacure), and specialises in seafood and steak dishes.
For dinner one night, I ordered the entree of seared scallops in a seaweed and miso soup ($14.90). This only took about 20 minutes to come out. 5 fat juicy scallops were brought out neatly placed in the middle of a large bowl of miso soup. We were only provided with forks and knives for this entree – no spoon to sip the soup with which I thought was rather strange. However, when I went to taste the soup, it was extremely over-the-top salty that I realised, it’s not meant to be drunk. The miso adds some flavour to the otherwise plain scallops. Our waitress informed us that this dish had recently been added to the menu. I thought it was a good dish to start with (although I still prefer scallops the Chinese way – ginger, shallots and soy scallops, still in their shell YUM!)
The confit duck on potato mash ($27.90) was ordered for my main. The first thing I tasted was the mash – it was cold. The duck was very plain and didn’t have much flavour on its own. Not what I expected for a confit duck dish. I really loved the sauce and completely drenched the duck meat into it, along with the mash. It tasted so good! The carrots were perfectly crunchy too.
My partner ordered a rare tenderloin steak ($28.80). This came out on a bed of mash (hot) with broad beans and pesto on top.
It definitely didn’t come out rare, more like medium or medium-rare. He didn’t like the sauce it came with and would’ve preferred a pepper/mushroom gravy or similar.
The wait staff here always wore a smile, were friendly and regularly poured more water for us. There weren’t that many people in the restaurant apart from the big table near us so it was pretty quiet inside. The menu has staples such as steak, fish, risotto, various entrees and desserts. Though I did enjoy the scallops, I thought the rest of the food was mediocre and was disappointed that my mash was cold. Not sure if I’d return in a hurry.
Foodgasm 5/10
