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Laura

An absolute immersion in art of all kinds.

Smoked eel encased in olive pastry.
1 / 9Smoked eel encased in olive pastry.Bonnie Savage
Laura restaurant at Pt Leo Estate.
2 / 9Laura restaurant at Pt Leo Estate.Bonnie Savage
Mochi dessert.
3 / 9Mochi dessert.Bonnie Savage
White asparagus with oyster and caviar.
4 / 9White asparagus with oyster and caviar.Bonnie Savage
Cooking over flames.
5 / 9Cooking over flames.Bonnie Savage
Lobster flambé, sauce aurore maigre and Yarra Valley roe.
6 / 9Lobster flambé, sauce aurore maigre and Yarra Valley roe.Bonnie Savage
Inside the Mornington Peninsula restaurant.
7 / 9Inside the Mornington Peninsula restaurant.Supplied
Spiced pumpkin creme diplomat.
8 / 9Spiced pumpkin creme diplomat.Kristoffer Paulsen
Mushroom dish.
9 / 9Mushroom dish.Kristoffer Paulsen

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Of course your salad has been fashioned into a bouquet, ribbons of kohlrabi binding the leaves together. Art permeates all aspects of Pt Leo Estate, but especially chef Josep Espuga’s degustations at Laura.

Yayoi Kusama’s giant dotted pumpkin sculpture outside is echoed in miniature in a dessert of pumpkin ice-cream veiled by sheets of caramel mochi. It’s there again in the speckled surface of torched sea urchin mousse, which acts as a salty lid for risotto made with whey-cooked rice: a masterpiece of texture and temperature.

Lobster is flambeed tableside in locally distilled rum, and rabbit loin is painted with a deep bronze sweet-and-sour glaze. The floor team’s deep knowledge can be mined for details on the wafer that tops said rabbit, or a poetic recommendation of Fleurie beaujolais from French producer Anne-Sophie Dubois.

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