Croque-Monsieur – A toasted snack with ham or chicken, served with frites. Served with egg ( …and its called a Croque- Madame!).
Sel et Poivre is a cafe on Victoria Rd in Darlinghurst which you’ve probably passed a billion times before, but never ate at. It’s 100% French; the staff are French and they serve you in French which makes you feel a little like you’re in Paris, kinda. The menu is great. I’ve had the Croque-Madame twice now, it’s delish!
What to order what to order?!
Caught up with Felix and Di the other night, fresh(ish) from their one month trip in Europe. They hadn’t had any Italian food since their trip so we hit the Buffalo Dining Club.
I was a little late, so we had a fairly lengthy wait before getting a table. The place is tiny (used to be a Burgerman joint) but cozy, loud and fun. Everything on the menu is made to share, the cheese and meat starters were awesome and the mains were just as great. Service was great too. I’ll be haunting this place, me thinks. My new fave Italian ‘restaurant’ (if you could call it that) for sure.
I went for the breakfast platter. Was delish!
Nanami went for the black stone eggs.
Nana and I hit Brown Sugar in Bondi Beach for brunch today. The brunch menu read so well it had both of us indecisive about what to order. The dinner menu on the board looked even more amazing (will have to book in for sure).
Nigorizake (cloudy sake) was recommended by our friendly waiter. We tried both versions, this one in particular had a fruity apple flavour.
Sashimi was amazing as usual.
Blood red tuna sushi took me back to Japan. I could have eaten just that all night long.
All sorts of goodness on a plate. We had many more amazing dishes, just too in the zone (eating) to take photos!
Nanami’s Mum treated us to an awesome feast at Masuya last night. She’s a local there, and called beforehand to make sure they’d hit it out of the park (and they sure did!). Definitely my fave place for sashimi and sushi now, no doubt.
Richie being the expert home beer brewer that he is I thought I’d get something a little different to drink.
Check the crackling, it tasted as amazing as it looks!
Cake time.
Richie has an old school mate over from the UK, his B’day pressie for Richie was epic. Wrapped in the newsagent bag, it contained UK lollies which were wrapped in bus tickets…
… and these crazy flashing spiderman glasses!
The custom card was hilarious too. Professor Falcon was Richie’s DJ name apparently (later on it was Vinyl Richie! Classic!).
Shantung Chicken, never had better anywhere else.
Peking shredded beef. No other place delivers this dish so crunchy!
Return to my fave Chinese restaurant in Sydney (my family has been following this guy around since I was little). Visit: http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/70/751212/restaurant/Kensington/Kensington-Peking-Sydney
Happy Chef peg ordering system.
Chicken Laksa.
Spicy Beef Laksa with Wontons.
Relentless rainy weather and laksa cravings drove us to call a few fave laksa houses, but being a public holiday they were closed. Google led us to Happy Chef (Sussex Street Food Court), what many believe to be Sydney’s best Laksa. Was it the best Laksa I’ve ever had? Nope, but it was good and it warmed up the soul.
Yesssssss. El Jannah’s.
Take away Baklava from Abla’s Pastry – the pastry is soooo thin and crunchy, perfection!
Nanami and I were having a lazy Sunday in front of the TV. We were watching Food Safari and during a Baklava feature I recognised Abla’s Pastry in some footage. Instant cravings! Sunday + wet weather usually brings out the worst Sydney drivers and traffic, but after checking some live traffic camera footage we decided traffic might not be so bad after-all so we made the trek out to Granville and were handsomely rewarded for our efforts :)
Nana, representing.
Pork, lots of it, crackly bits too.
This has been the highlight of my week. Apart from this epic meal which Nana cooked up the rest of it has just been the shittest week I’ve had all year. A massive departure from last week’s high… had to come down I suppose?
