Emerge

My boyfriend took me to your lovely restaurant while I was visiting from Canada! 🇨🇦 I have good news and bad news: the good news is, this was the best meal I had during my entire 3-week stay in Australia. The bad news is, I can never go back to another steak restaurant without comparing it to Emerge and the wonderful food we had there!! We’d been to a few steak restaurants while I was down, in Geelong and Melbourne, but they didn’t compare to Emerge. The place was recommended by my boyfriend’s foodie friend and I’m so glad he took the recommendation!! It was truly the culinary highlight of my trip! We both had the full blood wagyu steak, medium rare, a 9 on the marbling scale (the highest possible!). I wish I could come up with the words to describe how much we loved it… It was thick and perfectly cooked with a beautiful crispness on the outside and delicately soft and buttery on the inside. The two of us like to talk while we eat together but this experience had us both silent while we took in the complexity of the flavours and the deliciousness that we had never tried before. The only time we managed to speak was to communicate how happy we were and how much we were enjoying ourselves!! The steak was the star of the show but the entrée and sides also deserve mentioning!! We had the crocodile tail to start with! It was our first time trying crocodile and we were impressed with the flavour and fascinated by the texture. If you’re unsure if it’s for you, the closest thing I can compare it to is chicken, but a little tougher! I’m glad we tried it! Our sides were the pumpkin with mint yogurt and the hand cut chips with wagyu fat. Boyfriend had the yogurt sauce since I can’t eat dairy, but the pumpkin was amazing even without the sauce!! I had no idea that pumpkin could be so soft and flavourful, it was cooked to perfection. The hand cut chips were crispy yet soft and fresh! The wagyu fat gave them so much flavour, they completed the steak beautifully. The only downside is that I couldn’t eat as many as I wanted due to the richness of the steak! I was filling up fast! If you’re planning to go to Emerge, make sure you show up hungry!! We both agreed on one word to sum up our experience: rich. If you want to shower your taste buds in luxury, this is the place to do it. We left full, happy, and satisfied on so many levels. Thank you for making the last dinner on my vacation one to remember! We will most definitely be back when I return to Australia!

Amazing dinner experience! We tried 3 dishes, all of them amazing! Crocodile tail as a starter, the beef Wellington And seafood tagliatelle as main dishes. I would gladly return here for dinner as the food was delicious. The food came very fast, the staff was very friendly and polite and the menu has various options to accommodate everyone. Make sure you make a reservations as the place is not very big and it would be a shame to miss out! Note: the beef wellington comes medium rare by default so make sure you specify how you would like the beef cooked if that doesn’t sound good to you.

Beautiful building built in 1860s but modern as you walk in. Our dinner was in the boardroom, had a look in the bar and ballroom which were both modern and fresh. Staff were super friendly. Had a chat with Tim, the owner, great bloke. We had a lovely 2019 Shiraz from Bookend with our dinner. I enjoyed the Porterhouse steak cooked medium, would have preferred it to be a little more tender. My wife had the crumbed lamb cutlets which she absolutely loved. We had sticky date pudding for dessert which was just amazing. Daughter enjoyed her fish & chips and snakes alive for her dessert.