Weekend brunches in Newtown’s Buzzz Bar are one of the finer things in life.
The staff are friendly, friends gather, and knitting can be achieved.
I only just managed to snap this shot before all the food on the plate disappeared. I’m sure it was osmosis!
Ah King St. Is there anything else quite like it?
Sometimes you just want comfort food. Even better is comfort food when you can convince yourself it’s vaguely healthy! In the effort to appear that we were looking after ourselves, we made pizza for dinner, rather than buying take out.
It’ has all the important food groups, vegetables, carbs, dairy and meat.
Well, the way we make it tends to look a little like this …
Yes, that is pepperoni, salami, and cabanossi. Also two kinds of cheese. Why do you ask?
Coming out of the oven …
and heartattack on a plate!
Can’t ask for more than that really!
As is our habit, we enjoy trying lots of local businesses in an effort to both support them, and find a venue where we are comfortable spending hours (and sometime significant cash) at a stretch. There have only been a couple of places in the last seven-ish years that we’ve been on the search where things coalesced perfectly.. The first was Barzu on Norton St, which closed down. Then there was 2 Front Doors up the hill, which … closed down. We appear to have a new contender called Grind.
So far, on the plus sides they have amazing, friendly, prompt service. Good coffee (harder to find than you’d think in Leichhardt), and easily identifiable delicious food.
I just don’t feel comfortable pulling out the knitting and relaxing into sitting there for a few hours. Though it’s obvious a few of the other patrons can, and do!
They also have awesome brownies! This is a major positive!
I didn’t get a photo of the actual brownie, it disappeared too fast!
Next time we’ll sit upstairs and see what that’s like. Let’s hope it doesn’t close down!
Onwards and upwards! Last Saturday had some of the most glorious weather Autumn has to offer.
Overlooking this spectacular view (and with a discount voucher) we sat down to a spot of lunch at the Blackbird Café.
Himself just needed to ingest copious amounts of fuel, and went for the Hawaiian Pizza.
I felt like being a little more daring and ordered the Crocodile Burger!
Crocodile is a very delicately flavoured meat. Vaguely peppery. I think it may have been a little too sweet for me with the mango chutney, but I was informed they have to cater to tourists’ tastes which tend to run in that direction.
Darling Harbour can really be a wondrous place. So long as I don’t have to deal with too many tourists I really enjoy being there!
I think I’ll have to procure some crocodile for myself and experiment with cooking it …
Quick post about the pub we went to last night for dinner; The White Cockatoo.
You hear stories about the schnitzel … and then you order it. We decided each schnitzel must be a complete chicken.
We ordered 3 between 5 people.
The Australian
The Mexican
And the Seafood (garlic prawns and calamari)
The only one I got a finished picture of was the Seafood. But I think it speaks for itself. The other plates were in a similar state. (This was between me and Himself)
The suggestion for next time is one schnitzel between five, and then (if we finish) a desert!
WIN!!!
ghoti industries 