Tosung Firewood Barbeque Manuka 27 February 2013

Accompaniments

Charcoal burner and salad

Pork and prawns cooking

Chicken and beef flap

Chefs John and Andrew

More meat

Even onions and mushrooms

Present: 

all of us, Karen, Jim, Kim, Andrew, John, Ron, Megan

Wine:

Peter Lehman Layers 2010 White wine blend

Westend Bridges 1998 Shiraz

Food

We’d been to Tosung before and liked it, so thought it was time to go again.

At the Tosung BBQ you are in charge of cooking your own food at the table over charcoal burners.  These are  loaded up with red hot charcoal after we ordered our meal.  The emanating heat would be a bonus on a winter’s night, not so sure about mid Summer.

You order from the menu which has a photograph of every single dish as it looks before cooked. After ordering, trays of uncooked food arrive promptly.  There is plenty of food and it's cooked exactly as you like it, since you do the cooking. All the meat had been marinated beforehand and the flavour came through particularly in the chicken,   We ordered mainly trays of beef, pork which did give us a variety of flavours and textures, but perhaps we should have ordered a bigger variety, as the mix of beef seemed to taste the same.  They are accompanied by a salad and some small dishes of mashed potato, sauces, pickled onion and pickled cabbage.

The service was fast and efficient.  You summon the waiters with a call button: the food was tasty, and fun to cook.

The dessert menu (very important) was limited so we didn’t stay for dessert but opted for icecreams at the nearby gelateria.

Would we recommend it?  Yes, it was a fun night.  The only issue was that it would have been good if the waiters had cleared the table when we had finished as there was not much room on the table and the emply dishes contained raw meat juices.  But that is a small quibble.