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Last night we went to Blue Angel Restaurant in Darlinghurst for my Aunt Lely’s B’day. We were given the menu a few nights ago and they suggested that we pre-order our mains as it was bound to be a busy night. Too right it was! It took us ages to find a park. We spotted a line of Asian tourists outside and the massive no parking zone in front of the place (for coaches I assume) screamed tourist trap.

The decor was different! Very authentic Italian (I liked it) but we had no time to appreciate it as we were very quickly ushered upstairs into a private room. Before we even got settled down one waiter had dropped 2 bottles of wine which smashed on the floor splashing all over handbags, jackets and one guest. Worst of all they were mute and not at all sorry. It only got worse from there. All our waiters (which were all Asian) must have been trainee staff. They had no idea how to serve, they were super nervous and their English was very broken. They had no idea how to pour wine (I even had red wine spilt on my white shirt, nice) and what’s worse was that Christina’s main meal came out 15 minutes after everyone else’s (despite us pre-ordering a few nights before!). To top it off her pasta and my pasta were both way over cooked too.

We had a good time despite the crap service and food (my family is a hoot!) but I feel sorry for anyone who has saved up their hard earned cash to get ripped off by restaurants like this.

The big spill!

My cousin Nicholas, always clowning around!

Nicholas and Romina.

My hunz.

Christina loves her new iPhone 4.

Bernard and Lely.

Nicholas’ speech.

Have to admit I got hooked and have pretty much watched all of it. Pretty happy that Adam won it but I’m definitely going to miss contestant Kate’s completely in the zone, in-time to the music jig on the MasterChef intro.

Not cycling but still into the habit of loading up on carbs! Always nice to have a pasta dish at Fratelli Fresh

Today we hit Marque Restaurant in Surry Hills for Richie’s B’day. They have a $45/person menu on Fridays so we gave that a go (if you watched MasterChef last night, this was the restaurant they dined in!).

The Menu.

This pre-entrée was really yummy.

Tuna entrée was a little strange. The dill overpowered the subtle but interesting spice I could taste and I couldn’t taste the tuna nor the avocado at all (which both had the exact same texture which was strange).

Mum and Jamie aren’t seafood fans so they asked it they could replace their tuna entrée with something else. Amazingly they were happy to change the set $45 menu and offered up this beetroot tart (the pastry is hiding under the foam). It might not look like much but damn it was delicious!

The main. Everyone loved it except for me (am I really that fussy?). I just thought the crunchy bits were strange. Mine was just a tiny bit overcooked but Christina’s and Richie’s were both raw. Strange as we weren’t given the option to say how we’d like our meat cooked (goes to show how hard it is to cook steak perfectly, even for a restaurant of this calibre).

This pre-dessert custard was insanely good (naughty!).

The this massive Jaffa came out.

Definitely different but I couldn’t eat all of mine.

All in all it was fun, something different and great value for $45/head. Apparently it’s booked up for 3 months+ on Friday’s because of it (I’m not surprised!).