Korak Winery

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We are genuinely sorry that our food and our approach did not resonate with you.Reading your review, we feel that perhaps our restaurant simply isn’t the right fit for the style of dining you value, and that is completely fair. You are absolutely right about one thing: our focus is very much on the purity and integrity of the ingredient. We grow much of the fruit, vegetables and herbs we use ourselves, and our philosophy has never been to unnecessarily manipulate or process an ingredient simply to demonstrate technique. Our vision is one of clarity, seasonality and flavour, where technique serves the ingredient rather than overshadows it.We do, however, feel that describing the menu as “greenery and asparagus dressed up with a few flowers” does not quite reflect what was served.The dish you refer to was made with green beans, not asparagus. Beyond the visual composition of green and yellow wild herbs and flowers from our surroundings, the dish was built around smoke, sweetness and salinity from our own dried bottarga, together with the deep umami of a shellfish sauce. Its apparent simplicity was intentional.The same philosophy applies to the tortellini filled with fresh goat’s curd, cooked in tomato essence with saffron. Visually, it is deliberately restrained; when eaten, however, the contrast is precisely the point, a seemingly simple plate carrying considerable depth and intensity of flavour.Likewise, our snails with wild-herb pesto, kid-goat sauce and marinated wild grapevine were plated to evoke the farm and landscape from which the dish originates. For us, it is a powerful and deeply characteristic dish rather than an exercise in decorative complexity.We completely accept that none of this means you have to enjoy it. Taste is personal, and perhaps this particular season did not speak to you, or perhaps we simply look for different values in food. But these values, respect for the ingredient, our own produce, seasonality, restraint and a strong connection to the landscape around us, are at the very heart of our identity and the reasons behind the recognition our restaurant has received.We are nevertheless very happy to hear that you enjoyed the service and the setting, and we truly appreciate you acknowledging our team.We are sorry that you did not find the value you were hoping for in our culinary signature. We hope that perhaps one day you will visit us in another season and give us a second chance. With a completely different garden, ingredients and menu, perhaps next time we might just click.