Redoak Boutique Beer Cafe

On Tuesday evening we decided we needed a date night to get us through the week: dinner and a film. We headed to Redoak Boutique Beer Cafe, which we'd been meaning to go to for a while, and had luckily been given a two for one voucher at the Taste of Sydney.

Redoak is Australia's most awarded brewery and brews a range of beers on site including their speciality Framboise Froment beer which is $75 for a 250ml bottle! We decided to go for something a bit (a lot, in fact) cheaper; I had a blackberry wheat beer, which had an unexpected but nice flavour, and Dave had the honey pale ale, which was delicious with a definite undertone of honey.

Redoak claim to have a "fine cuisine" menu and they also match beers to each dish. We decided to go for a cheese tasting plate to start- 4 different cheeses matched with 4 different beers: it was exquisite - I didn't realise beers could differ so much in flavour and go so well with cheese! Our main courses were equally as delicious and although it turned out to be quite an expensive meal, it was definitely worth it.

Tummies full, (but with enough room to fit in some English Cadbury's mini eggs) we headed to the cinema to watch The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock, which was very good - one of the best films I've seen since Inglorious Basterds. A lovely meal and a good film: a very nice evening to break up the working week.