Experience a little provincial French charm at Clock by the Bay restaurant, just a short distance from the Portland Wharf on Cliff Street. It’s hard to miss this grand two-storey venue, standing on the Bentinck Street roundabout with tall arched windows and terraced balcony, where the inside embraces visitors in a warm ambiance as they enter. Inspired by rich European cuisine, a menu of mouth-watering offerings showcases French style and influences as well as heavily integrating local produce from course to course. Potato gnocchi with a burnt butter sauce, sage and pine nuts may tempt as an entrée, or delve into tempura zucchini flowers served with tomato ragu and fried basil. Be sure to feast again on a main of lamb shoulder with sumac, pearl barley risotto, rosemary, garlic and jus.