April Food Adventures

Hallloooooo peoplez!!!

How is everyone? Fantabulous I presume!

So I’m not much of a food blogger, I mean I like food, but i've never thought about blogging about it.. However, my best friend has a food blog and it’s great! You all should check it out (ilovemyfoodlots). Doot doot, ok back? Sweet!

So what I thought I’d do for this blog is just list the places I’ve eaten at during the month. Call it my monthly food adventures. With quite a lot of spare time up my sleeve I’ve been able to catch up with a lot of friends. This also means trying a few new places, which equates to eating a lot of yummy, yummy food! So here's the April edition of 'Where I ate'.

April 5 – A visit to the bald chocolate man à Max Brenner, Central Plaza

Date with my cousin and her little bub. We decided to head to Max Brenner. Can I just say that the waffles at Max Brenner never disappoint and this one wasn’t any different. Look at that big blob of ice cream! The waffle wasn’t too chewy and didn’t feel like it was brought from Woolies (Woolworths). It felt fresh and was still warm. When you combine it with ice cream and top that off with a strawberry. Oh my lord!!! It was like heaven! 

April 6 – Feeling like a schnitty à Motown Coffee Brewers – Sydney CBD, near Suncorp building

This place was recommended to me by my chocolate creating friend (Hey.there.sugar) as she said the burgers are really good. But, instead of having a burger I ordered the “Schnitty” – Parmsen crumbed chicken schnitzel with salad and sweet potato fries on the side. Why? I saw sweet potato fries and I had to have them. I couldn’t help it. Just look at them! Nom nom nom. They were delicious!!!! I also enjoyed an ice coffee, because it was just a tad hot that day as well. My friend had the “From the Pasture” – Angus rib eye filler with a side battered onion rings and fries, however, she requested sweet potato fries which they didn’t swap for… so… yeah… But it was ok, I told her she could have some of mine.

Now I’ll need to return to this place, why? Well I didn’t have the burger, so I’ll need to come back for that… and the sweet potato fries. J

April 17 – Enjoying some food at our nation’s capital à G Tree Café, Canberra, ACT

On this particular day a friend and I decided to road trip town to our nation’s capital to visit my rock loving, marvel hugging friend and her husband for a Sunday funday birthday visit. We were brought here by the couple as they said the coffee was amazing. I must say it was pretty darn good.

The café uses Ona coffee beans. Very smooth. Smooth like a smooth criminal… Anyway, what did I have here? Well I had the morning apple crumble – baked apple and mixed berries in quinoa & coconut crumb topped with honey cinnamon. To be honest, in my head I thought it was like an apple pie. I don’t know why?! But it was still yummy none the less.

April 21 - I went a bit Left of field à Left of Field, Rhodes

Today I paid a visit to Rhodes to meet up with a friend during her lunch break. We decided to try the new café, Left of Field. The menu was definitely interesting and we spent a bit of time trying to figure out what to have. In the end, we decided to be healthy. My friend settled for the fried duck egg, asparagus, garlic, wild mushrooms, pecorino & truffle while I had the grilled figs with prosciutto, candied walnuts, Meredith goats cheese & nasturtium. The description makes the food sound so fancy, doesn’t it. It was delicioso! I definitely want to come back and try the other items on the extensive menu.

April 23 – The one with the pop up cereal cafe – Kellogg’s cereal café at Kawa, Surrey Hills

Today was a Saturday and my friend told me to meet her at Central station at 9:30am. Now can I be honest with you, this was extremely early for me because it meant waking up at 7:30am on a Saturday. I can imagine some of you saying, oh that’s not early, it’s just 7:30. But to me it is. Why? well, I love my sleep. Especially on weekends where I can sleep in. So this was a bit of a struggle! 

Anyway, I made it to Central and off we went to try this pop up cereal café.  Once there, we were greeted by a cute little café called Kawa. It’s an interesting concept combining cereal with brunch, or shall we say crunch. Haha… ok maybe not. 

ANYWAY. What did we have I hear you asking, well, we enjoyed some coco puffs hot chocolate, some rice bubble crusted french toast with banana, maple syrup and crispy bacon (bacon was on the side as my friend is a vegetarian) and we also shared a salad made up of kale, avocado, special K, green apple topped with a poached egg. Also we finished our crunch date Kawa’s Moroccan  mint tea.

April 24 – Visiting the Shire – Gerrale St Kitchen, Cronulla

To round up April’s food adventures my friends and I decided to try Gerrale St Kitchen down south. The menu is quite extensive, which made choosing something very hard. Now my friends weren’t that hungry so we didn’t really choose heavy dishes, we tried to go for something a little more light. 

The dishes order for this visit were – warm Belgian waffles; served with whipped cinnamon ricotta, yuzu curd and raspberries x 2 and the French Canadian stack which was brioche French toast, smoked bacon, banana, maple, pecan crumble and mascarpone. To match these savory, sweet dishes we enjoyed some freshly made juices as well.

So that was April’s food adventures – now I’m feeling quite full and I think I’m in a food coma, so I’m going to crawl to bed and try to sleep this off. Let me know if there is anywhere which I should try for the month of May? If not, I hope you enjoyed this little food adventure.

Until next time!!