In theory, the recipes should work, in practice they don't. Using potato for body, it's a sort of a po-mo vichyssoise, lacking weight and flavour. A dash of curry or simply salt and pepper would help. To these taste buds, the marriage of sticky sweetness with delicate seafood is no match made in heaven. Tastefully speaking, it's a simple, full-flavoured dish, but easily prepared at home.
Nothing succeeds like excess.
The main course portions are so obscenely large, we will leave them half-eaten. Basmati it is, but it's also soupy, and suffers from too long a relationship with heat. Although the thick salmon slab is opaque, it is juicy. And despite being a farmed Atlantic catch, the fish is more strongly flavoured than the norm and stands up well to its peppery sauce accompaniment. The pork tenderloin is a total triumph.