Holiday Restaurant list
I wish I was cool enough to prepare proper reviews, but I'm not. So here are some quick notes, brought to you by the letters <, D, L, and >.
- Breakfast Creek Wharf, Brisbane
- Unhappy staff, food only adequate. Sufficient nautical detritus hung on the walls to entertain a toddler for hours.
- Alegria, Sunshine Beach, Qld
- Superb. Funky location. Amusing tropical fruit cocktails, e.g. lychee martini. Duck and pumpkin pizza. Trust the waiters.
- Blue Lotus, Qld
- Must see. Who else can offer you a 6, 8 or 12-item icecream degustation menu? We had wattleseed, lilli pilli, turkish delight, black sesame, fat-free chocolate, and apple-and-calvados. I don't know why it's not packed.
- Canteen, Noosa, Qld
- Great coffee, good breakfasts. Internet access via a 166MHz 486 with 8-bit VGA, which gets bonus nostalgia points from me.
- Bill's, Darlinghurst NSW
- Wait of about 15 min for breakfast, just enough to whet your apetite without reaching San Francisco heights of ridiculousity. Well-executed but pricy classic breakfast items. Our table had a magazine about the high life on the southern highlands. Presumably people interested in spending $2M on a country cottage also like to drop $40 on breakfast. Great neighbourhood.
- Bel Mondo, The Rocks, NSW
- Advertises tapas outside the front door, but highly reluctant to actually provide it, despite a near-empty bar. Disappointing after the high reviews it's previously received. If the bar service is any indication, I'm glad I didn't pay for a full meal.
- Heritage Belgian Beer Cafe, The Rocks, NSW
- Wow. Superb architecture, enormous beer list. According to an yellow planning poster outside the door, about to convert more space from restaurant to bar, which should be an improvement seeing as the bar was full and the dining part about one-third full. The average liver would take perhaps seven visits to sample all their beers.
- Löwenbräu Keller, The Rocks, NSW
- Enormous plates, good litre beers, wenches. Obviously a kind of Disneyland Bavaria, but if you can get into that it's good. 25-element schnapps list the perfect end to a perfect day.
posted Mon 12 Jan 2004 in /food/restaurants | link
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