Olive Restaurant Mawson - 28 November 2018

Jim, Karen and Ron attended.

Started with Turkish bread and dips.

The bread and dips was a very good selection.

Mains were steak, duck confit, slow cooked goat.

The steak was excellent. The duck confit and the goat were good.

Desserts were chocolate torte, almond torte, tarte tartin.

All the desserts were good.

Overall, the meal was very enjoyable, but nothing particularly special.

The noise level in the restaurant is very high, with no particularly obvious reason why.

Saigon Vietnamese Restaurant Pearce 14 November 2018

Jim, John and Ron attended. Another boys night.

Rice paper rolls, sizzling pork, caramelised lamb with black peppercorns, stir fried rice noodles with seafood, meat and vegetables. We enjoyed all the dishes. The lamb was the standout favourite. 

Desserts were caramel flan and banana cake. Also very nice.

Flavours of India at Woden - 31 October 2018

 

(Review by  Ron)

Andrew, Jim, John and I attended. An all guys evening. It took us forever to make up our minds what to order. We reckon we did a good job, in spite of having no female assistance.   We spent the entire evening talking about computers. Yes, we're a bunch of nerds.

The samosas were lovely and hot and crisp and the vegetable filling was really good. The accompanying sauce was a perfect compliment and added plenty of heat to the experience.

The goat, lamb and eggplant were all very good. Lovely flavours, quite distinct from each other. We felt it was a very carefully selected combination of dishes, that went together very well.

The dessert proved to be an interesting combination. It worked, but even I found the white chocolate mousse a bit too sweet on top of the already sweet gulab jamun.