A restaurant as beautifully precise as the highfalutin Halcyon Hotel in which it resides,Paper Daisy’s food is a careful balance of flavour,texture and colour. Fried crumbed shiitake mushrooms with cashew and saltbush are a crispy,crunchy revelation. Likewise,a shaved cucumber and melon salad with mozzarella and almond,which pops on the plate and then the palate. Chef Jason Barratt’s talent for restraint extends to coal-roasted local kingfish served with a grilled fennel salad and salmoriglio dressing;the only real flex is a roasted cauliflower main with a fabulously punchy macadamia romesco sauce. Take in all this with a Collector Tiger Tiger chardonnay from the carefully curated wine menu,and an outside seat overlooking the garden with glimpses of Cabarita Beach (or,in the evening,inside the chic Anna Spiro-designed dining room),and you’ll end your visit planning the next.