Last weekend we were doing our Project Spiral and happened to be in Woolwich at around lunchtime. Ok it was planned like that, but that hardly matters does it? 
Woolwich is a lovely place, and it has some amazing harbour views. On Woolwich Dock, at the end of Clarkes Point Reserve, you’ll find Deckhouse restaurant.
Inside it’s neatly and plainly laid out in a elegantly simplistic manner. Directly outside the window is the harbour, and in the distance the harbour bridge and the city. You can see the harbour bridge through the window in this photo.
It’s certainly not the cheapest of restaurants, but what you get for you money is great food, freshly prepared and with high quality ingredients.
We started off the meal with the sour dough bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar ($6.30). The bread was lovely and fresh. The olive oil was good tasting, but it was the balsamic vinegar that blew me away. I’m not sure if it was a reduction, but I’ve heard that good quality balsamic vinegars are actually quite thick. This one was very thick, and was barely enough for the two of us. I ended up scraping the remainder out of the dish for the last few slivers of bread. The vinegar was well polished, and hardly vinegar like at all, just lovely and sweet.
Caro decided to have the salt and pepper calamari ($18.50). It’s an entree but it’s a decent enough portion for a main too. It comes with a sprout salad, although that looks more like radish to me, and a passionfruit coulis.
Being my usual self I couldn’t get past the tempura fish ($28). Perhaps a little pricey for fish and chips, but the quality and taste was great so I will not complain! The fish was succulent, but clearly cooked though, and wonderfully flaky. The chips were fat (as advertised) and nice and crispy despite the fact the they were under the fish. Some near the top were a little less crispy, but were certainly not soggy, and in fact I quite liked those ones as well!
Afterwards we each had a flat white ($4 each), which was of good quality.
For dessert, Caroline had the wild mixed berry and honeycomb ice-cream parfait with peppermint toffee bark ($15). I only tasted the ice cream with a tiny bit of the berry, but it was very nice, and the honeycomb was very evident and welcomed.
I had the mango pannacotta with pineapple and mint salad ($15). It came with a strawberry and a triangular sliver of something that I can not definitively identify. It was very thin, but tasted like a caramelised pastry base. The pannacotta itself was wonderfully creamy and had a satisfying mango taste.
A lovely restaurant, and one that I hope to return to. And I bet this will be an awesome location for watching the New Year’s Eve fireworks.
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