Showing posts with label Australian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australian. Show all posts

Saturday, 6 May 2017

ADELAIDE: Botanic Garden Restaurant

My parents came over to visit ( because I graduated ! Whohoo MBBS! ) and I decided that I will have my graduation meal at Botanic Garden Restaurant because they harvest their greens directly from the Adelaide Botanic Garden! (*cough* organic *cough*) and it is also a very pretty restaurant.


We decided to go for the 4 course at $75pp

Some complimentary Sang Choy Bow-ish thing 

Gazander oysters, charred cucumber, bonito

Cold smoked hiramasa kingfish, daikon, avocado, yuzu puree

Tommy ruff escabeche, mussel custard, fennel, squid ink cracker

Hazelnut polenta, mushrooms, red cabbage, wild watercress

Fish of the day

Lamb

Pork Belly


Fish




I really apologise I couldn't rename all the dishes. But it was a good meal and we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves including my mom who usually doesn't eat western meals. 

Botanic Gardens Restaurant
Plane Tree Drive
Adelaide 5000
Lunch: 12-3pm everyday except Monday
Dinner: 6.30-10pm Friday and Saturday only


Sunday, 26 March 2017

ADELAIDE: Sean's Kitchen

Had dinner with my best friend at Sean's Kitchen on Friday. It's somewhere I always wanted to go but somehow I remember when they first opened it was so difficult to get a reservation ! I gave up after that.

Sean's Kitchen is located just beside Adelaide casino ( not the reason why we decided to go there ! Actually ... no, that's exactly the reason. louis wanted to show me this Asian " enclosure " with 2 lion stature in front ) he was like " look at all your people in the enclosure ! " 

 

Getting ready for my date with my best friend. 

 


Looking thoughtfully thru the menu. 

Right now till April, Sean's Kitchen is having their crab special ! 

 
Crab pie. Pretty good actually 

We had squid and pork for starters. I loved the squid ! It was cooked to perfection! 


 1.1 kg of lamb shoulder. I was initially skeptical because I'm not a fan of lamb PLUS it was liquorice gravy eeewwww I hate liquorice ! But I know louis really liked lamb so I compromised I said if I could try the sauce first and if it's okay then we'll have it. 
The liquorice taste wasn't strong so yup haha. 
Had such a hard time finishing it but I think we did well, we probably had 1/8 left. 

Love love love the winelist here ! I'm usually not a huge drinker, I do have a mild allergy to alcohol I think ( I get itch) other than My inferior Asian genes which makes me go red like a lobster. 
But I couldn't resist a Moscato and can you believe it, for dessert, instead of having a proper dessert ( to be fair their dessert menu just couldn't cut it for me ), I had another glsss of wine.

THEY  SERVE  Mount Horrocks! 

that's my favourite favourite absolute favourite dessert wine, and I can't think of any restaurant I've been to anywhere which serve it! 

Our bill came up to $217 for both of us. Would I go again to Sean's, I don't think so. I believe I could have better food with
$217. But, the place was pretty, fitting for a date :D