Four months ago I came to Gilgamesh and it was bright and airy. When I came tonight with my brother it was dark and moody. Amazing how four months can make a change in the atmosphere purely from the light coming from the outside! We were taking advantage of the same top table offer as last time (50% of set menu) so I was pleased to see that they had changed the set menu but still offering the meat and vegetarian options. Nothing really excited us from the vegetarian options so meat it was.

This time around our starters were:

– Smoked trout, mango & star fruit salad
– Prawn spring roll, tomato salsa & coriander
– Egg white soup dumpling

followed by mains of Thai crispy duck hot pot & Asian herbs and Double cooked pork, pak choi & chilli jam (is that what that was!) and dessert of Steamed coconut custard with coconut foam and tropical fruit. We were also a bit greedy and decided to have some salt and pepper squid (served in newspaper.)

I didn’t think the food was as tasty as it was last time though it was as equally prettily presented. The smoked trout, mango & star fruit salad was a touch on the tangy side, the dumplings were nothing to get excited about and actually where a bit mooshy and the spring roll was tasty but strangely reminded me of a prawn toast!

Our main dishes weren’t anything too spectacular though they were sufficiently tasty. Patrick wasn’t really impressed with the double cooked pork as he didn’t think it didn’t have much flavour and had too much fat. I thought it was okay though and surprisingly tender. The hot pot wasn’t so much crispy duck as soggy duck by the time we got to it. The duck too was quite tender but there wasn’t so much flavour in the dish. Our mains were served with some really tasty coconut rice and very well cooked green vegetables. Perhaps the flavour of these dishes overwhelmed our mains!

My favourite dish of the night had to have been the steamed coconut custard (served cold.) Never a being a fan of foam I was happy to find that the foam had quite a strong taste which was more tropical than coconut I thought but I wasn’t complaining. Well, actually I would like to complain – to say that the dessert serving was way too small! 🙂

We had a really friendly waitress from Denmark tonight so I was quite happy with her service. I was pleased to see that she kept topping up our water without us having to ask so this is good. She only let us down when we were trying to pay – at that point we were waiting quite a while and couldn’t see where she’d gone.

Once again I left the restaurant feeling way too full and relatively happy with my experience. A bit more light would have been appreciated so we could actually see what we were eating but I guess it went with the whole ambience of the restaurant to have dimmer lighting. All tables were full tonight so the restaurant is clearly having a good season.