Making the most of the rest of our time in Sydney often means eating out at one of the numerous excellent restaurants here. Last night we decided to go to Cafe Sydney which is down by Circular Quay, and has probably one of the best views a restaurant could...
Aria is the restaurant which all tourists to Sydney are recommended to visit whilst here, however if you talk to a Sydneysider they will always say that whilst Aria is good, Cafe Sydney is miles better. Obviously, we had to give it a try!
It's quite an expensive restaurant so we decided that the plan of attack would be to share a starter and dessert, and order our own mains. We shared the grilled scallops with white anchovy, shaved fennel, cabbage, ruby grapefruit and pine nuts; the scallops were quite small but it was still nice. For mains I had tandoori-roasted ocean trout with lentils, roasted globe artichoke (which was actually an explosion of amazing taste in my mouth - it was gorgeous) and buffalo yogurt raita whilst Dave had the twice cooked pork belly with caremalised pear, speck, pistachio and jus. Both were delicious although, as is the case with all these kinds of restaurants, the servings are quite small and you get no vegetables!
The best part of every mealtime finally arrived - dessert. We chose the bread and butter pudding with brandy macerated winter fruit (prunes, apricots and figs) and honey ice-cream. Every part of this dessert was delicious - it had a creme brulee style top which was a lovely contrast to the creaminess of the pudding, and the winter fruits tasted just like Christmas (if you know what I mean). Possibly one of the scrummiest desserts I've ever had.
The bill came to $144.50, which isn't too bad considering we also had wine and beer. My review in general? Well, it was nice but I'm not sure it deserves all the rave reviews which people seem to give it. I've had much nicer food elsewhere. But the views were amazing, the service was really good and it was a nice evening so I'm definitely glad I went!
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