Not byo, so we had:
490 metres Cab Merlot Central Victoria 2010
Present: Kim, Andrew, Megan, Ron, Jim, Karen.
Elk and Pea, wow. We saw an advert for it in the food section of the Canberra Times, thought we would check it out to continue our American continent food explorations.
It’s a new, “hip” bar/restaurant/café in the middle of all
the bike shops etc in Lonsdale
Street . A
cute little place, with cute décor, pictures on the ceiling, peacock on the
rafters etc. A very casual place to eat,
some large tables, some benches etc, which seems to be the trend these
days. It could be a bit noisy perhaps,
but we were in a table in the middle, not so bad.
The food is geared to sharing, so that suited us of
course. We were warned that one main is
usually big enough for two people, which definitely turned out to be the case.
We had:
- Ceviche
- Quinoa and zucchini
- Mussels
- Pork belly
- Chicken jerk
- Goat stew
This list doesn’t really do it justice, the tastes were
fabulous, new, interesting.
The ceviche was a lime/mango flavoured fish on top of a corn
chip, with avocado and radish. Really
really nice (not sure about the fried potato chips though).
The quinoa was light, crunchy, with cumin, corn, tomato, and
some other surpising ingredients.
The mussels came with a think tomato sauce, chilli and
chorizo, it was very tasty and very Italian
The pork belly was tender, sweet, no bones. Chicken was fabulous. It was moist and flavoursome, chargrilled
plus something else done to it, we couldn’t work that out. It was not bland like chicken can sometimes
be, but had a flavour we couldn’t identify, which I thought was allspice/pimento
and which turned out to be one of a number of spices.
The goat, ho hum, a bit bland and nothing really.
Desserts? Well Ron
and I had the donut, very wicked and absolutely yummy. Jim had the chocolate mousse thingey which
tasted lovely but looked unfortunate.
Much hilarity ensued regarding its appearance.
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