Kunitchua

If Toowoomba is my home town, Horsham in West Sussex, England is my home away from home.

Located about an hour south of London in the Sussex countryside, Horsham used to be a market town and has a town centre full of all the usual high street shops, a few more interesting ones and a 'Carfax' with a lovely little bandstand...It is surrounded by pretty little villages and farms and manor houses...well, you get the picture...

Horsham, though pretty, is completely unremarkable.

So when I heard that a new restaurant had opened up in town, with fancy and expensive Japanese inspired cuisine, a noted chef, and a review in the Telegraph I was astounded...and when my friends suggested we get a group together to go there and check it out my credit card cringed but my taste buds were excited.

Wabi did not disappoint. Unsurprisingly the cocktail bar was our first stop with not a classic to be seen on the menu...instead we were spoilt for choice with a range of Japanese inspired concoctions...spice, mint...whatever you fancy is on offer here.

We chose the tasting menu which was expertly tweaked to suit those of us with things we can't eat...a 7 or so (i lost count...) course meal which just kept coming. A highlight for me was the tempura prawns on a bed of egg noodles. Then there was the mushroom rice hot pot...oh...and the spinach satay thing - yum!! But the finishing touch was the oh-so-light chocolate mousse on a bed of mint sorbet finished with a green tea stick....heaven

Horsham may be completely unremarkable...but apparently it has its moments...Kunitchua.

Till next time...