Yarri Restaurant Bar - Busselton

Another fabulous meal in WA. Tonight ate at Yarri Restaurant in Dunsborough. Just the best meal. Delicious. When I booked, I was asked if I’d like to sit at the kitchen bar. Would I! Of course! Best seat in the house. The kitchen was ready to go when I sat down, the chefs almost twitching and raring to go with the service. The menu features lots of bush tucker and local produce. Many of the dishes are or can be made GF and it was so hard to pick just what to have. First: Burnt pumpkin, nori, togarashi. An amazing dish of sweet burnt pumpkin purée set atop crisp wafers of a mix of nori and tapioca, sprinkled with a few baby shiso leaves and a sprinkle of chilli and maybe sesame seeds (not sure). Just fabulous. Second: Kingfish, quandong, yuzu kosho, plum. OMG what a sensational blend of tastes. The raw kingfish sits atop splodges of dashi cream, with thin slices of what seemed to be slightly dehydrated sticky plum slivers, yuzu kosho splashed over, a few tiny squirts of (I think extra virgin) oil, sprinkled with samphire, and a couple of other seaside greens. Could eat that all day. Both these washed down with a nice crisp Snake Herring white wine blend. Third: Skirt steak, kohlrabi, carrots, burnt onion, koji. Usually comes with black barley which, sadly, I can’t have but they added in some extra greens (chargrilled broccolini). The burnt onion were fine thin onion stalks with tiny flower buds. It was delicious. Just delicious. Picked a Snake Herring Cab Sav, Merlot, Malbec wine for this one and it was so smooth, just wonderful with the steak. Reckon it may have been even better (if that’s possible) slightly chilled. Red wine is usually better slightly chilled which is how it’s meant to be served. Not warm. Remember room temperature in France isn’t usually hot. Lastly for dessert, chocolate, strawberry, rose. Rose scented and flavoured sheets of meringue with a rich chocolate mousse, chocolate soil, strawberry sorbet, and little slivers of strawberry. Usually comes with chocolate biscuit crumbs but I didn’t miss that element. Gorgeous. Finished off with a really good coffee. Don’t often drink coffee as it can make me feel a bit off (think it’s the caffeine) but it seemed right for this dinner and so it was. The chefs are so generous with their help and seemed to really like telling me what different things were, how they were made, and just chatting when service allowed. This restaurant is so worth putting on your ‘must-visit’ list. Wish I’d discovered it earlier! Thanks Shirley Harring (Hand Sourced) for the delicious mag email! Happy Little Coeliac! Thanks guys!

Beautiful food, great setting and wonderful service. Highly recommend you check out this restaurant if you are looking for a special dining experience.

We tried this restaurant reccommended by our friend while viditi g Dunsborough. We choose chef's menu and it was super delicious foods, excellent service, meet nice people too. We did enjoyed every bite of it. Will reccomend other friends too

Incredible fresh and flavorsome local food. Had octopus entree, scallops and parsnip for desert? Yes, you read it right and each and every course was superb, so much so we came back the very next night. Truly relaxed but sophisticated dining experience, both ambience and food. Wait staff were excellent. We’ll be back next time we’re down south. Thank you.

Amazing food, brilliant service, relaxed ambience ... best night out since I can’t remember when. Eleven out of ten. Couldn’t fault.