A restaurant as beautifully precise as the highfalutin Halcyon Hotel in which it resides, Paper Daisy’s food is a careful balance of flavour, texture and colour. Fried crumbed shiitake mushrooms with cashew and saltbush are a crispy, crunchy revelation. Likewise, a shaved cucumber and melon salad with mozzarella and almond, which pops on the plate and then the palate. Chef Jason Barratt’s talent for restraint extends to coal-roasted local kingfish served with a grilled fennel salad and salmoriglio dressing; the only real flex is a roasted cauliflower main with a fabulously punchy macadamia romesco sauce. Take in all this with a Collector Tiger Tiger chardonnay from the carefully curated wine menu, and an outside seat overlooking the garden with glimpses of Cabarita Beach (or, in the evening, inside the chic Anna Spiro-designed dining room), and you’ll end your visit planning the next.