Saturday 24th July 2010

Sorry everyone! I'm recovering from four days of head-splitting migraines so I haven't been online much this past week and all the blogging (as well as bill paying and job seeking) has been postponed. Let's hope I'm on the road to recovery and can avoid those nasty migraines for a while.


BISTRO FELIX
118-120 Rokeby Road, Subiaco
To celebrate Ling's birthday tonight, we went out for dinner. Let's face it, no celebration of ours is complete if it doesn't involve food.

I've been walking past this restaurant everyday on my way to and from work and have been eagerly anticipating dining here. It always seems to be well set up inside, with all the tables elegantly set up for dinner service, complete with the cutlery, napkins and wine glasses. There always seem to be a gathering of people in there enjoying an after work drink.

The tables were really close to each other with little room to move between them. I suppose being packed in tightly and the lighting and music helped to create a cosy ambience. The waitresses appeared to be attentive and were good with refilling our water glasses and topping up our wine glasses.

We ordered entrees to begin with:

Shallen: Grilled Rottnest Island scallops on the half shell
2 x with sea salt and extra virgin olive oil
2 x with corn and pequillo pepper - $4.8 each

Meng: Tea smoked quail with raddichio, muscatel and almond
with a carrot and caraway jus - $20
Food Styling by Meng.

Ling, Kong & Myself: the daily charcuterie plate
with Lescure butter and walnut bread - $28
This included pork terrine, duck carpaccio and a delicious pate.

After our entrees, we were brought a palette cleanser - Bay Leaf & Lime Sorbet

For our mains:

Shallen: Barramundi with mixed leaves & vinaigrette - $32

Ling & Myself: Slow braised ox cheek with parsnip, apple & Cêpes crumb - $35

We all had a good chuckle that Meng came slightly under dressed in his Batman T-shirt!

Meng: Duck breast with puy lentils, girolle and beetroot
and an orange and anise sauce - $39

Kong: Rack of dorper lamb with Lancashire potatoes,
beetroot puree and roasted brussels - $41

We were all quite content with our meals. Meng shied away from the lentils on his dish though, so I think he was still hungry afterwards.

Overall, a pleasant dining experience!


THE IMP
863 Albany Highway, Victoria Park
We drove here for coffee and dessert.

Ling had the chocolate brownie - it was a huge slab about 10cm x 10cm!!
I honestly don't know how he managed to eat it all.

Shallen had a sticky date pudding.

I indulged in a rhubarb and apple crumble.
It was pretty much a bowl of cream, stewed rhubarb and apple,
and a crunchy layer of crumble over the top.

A really good night was had by us all, but it shows we're getting old when we're all ready to call it a night before midnight!