Foodie Experiences
Island Tasting Menu at Ugly Duckling
Victoria's Chinatown tasting menu that critics keep whispering 'Michelin' about, with just enough seats to feel like a genuine secret.
Fisgard Street, Chinatown
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Victoria's Chinatown tasting menu that critics keep whispering 'Michelin' about, with just enough seats to feel like a genuine secret.
Fisgard Street, Chinatown
More infoUgly Duckling sits in a pocket-sized Chinatown room on Fisgard Street doing things that make food critics whisper 'Michelin'. The format is the date: a seasonal tasting menu moving through the Island's fields, forests and coastline in handmade courses you cannot rush, from reimagined dim sum to the occasional sweet-and-sour foie gras. The menu changes constantly, so every booking is a different dinner. It's 4.7, seats are few, book early.
This is a sit-back-and-let-them-cook kind of night, so book ahead, the room is tiny and the seasonal tasting menu sells out. Settle in for roughly two and a half hours of handmade, ever-changing courses pulled from Island fields, forests and coast, and pace your conversation to the plates. Don't miss whatever cheeky riff the kitchen is running that week (past hits: reimagined dim sum, sweet-and-sour foie gras), it's never the same menu twice. Chinatown's lantern-lit streets are right outside for a slow post-dinner wander.
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