With the arrival of the coronavirus in our country, from March 20 locals such as restaurants and bars must have closed. Many locals then looked for a way to reinvent themselves. And very few managed to do it in a successful way in such a short time, as was the case of the Secret Garden Bar. Since last year I had opted for a more relaxed cuisine, bringing it closer to a younger audience and opening its terraces, which for several months did not stop filling up. All while the award-winning European Restaurant was being remodeled, which would reopen in March.
But everything changed, the partners say, due to the Covid-19 crisis and had to reinvent themselves by a delivery model with a fine-cuisine sushi menu, under the creative hand of award-winning chef Francisco Mandiola, who has been applauded by those who have enjoyed it in their homes, achieving more than four thousand orders since they started with the modality.
“Every day it is more difficult to get suppliers in this pandemic with quarantine, but we have still managed to have the best in the possible way to be able to get a good product to our customers’ homes,” Mandiola says.
Inside the sushi menu, a good option is truffled salmon roll ($10,900), with rice and that comes wrapped in flaming salmon, macerated in truffle oil, wasabi, soya and a shot of yuzu. The filling is salmon, shrimp, avocado and a touch of toasted almond and coriander leaf.
Also the tuna and avocado ($10,900), one without rice, which is wrapped in avocado, stuffed with cucumber and avocado, plus a tuna tartare in poison sauce, black sesame and ciboulette, with a touch of subtle lemon, with a touch of subtle lemon
Another without recommended rice is the Rosario roll ($10,900), wrapped in paper rice avocado and shrimp, which comes stuffed with crab, avocado and shrimp.
But where they make a difference from all the other sushi offerings, it’s at Sashimi Moriawase ($15,900), one of chef Francisco Mandiola’s new star dishes, which are 14 cuts of fresh fish and seafood of the day like fresh trout or red prawn, plus a touch of cucumber that brings freshness.
To order delivery, you must call the Secret Garden phone +56222083603 or on the WhatsApp +56939078614. The full menu is available in www.barjardinsecreto.cl
