Tales of a confectionist

3 states in 3 days- Sydney: Movenpick

——-12/03/2012——-

After lunch @ The Meat & Wine Co. we wanted to indulge in something sweet before heading back to Canberra. We wandered across to Mövenpick situated conveniently right under a monorail stop.

White chocolate ice-cream- a must every time because it’s Tim’s favourite flavour

panna cotta ice-cream - It was ok, I haven’t found my favourite flavour here yet, maple syrup and walnut is up there though.

I’ve been spoilt for flavours and beautiful ice-cream from Mr Frugii from right here in Canberra, so I’m less impressed with Mövenpick now, but I do love their opening hours and perfect location.

Venue: Darling Harbour Mövenpick Boutique

Address: 10 Darling Drive  Shop K17, NSW 2000 Darling Harbour

Opening hours all season: 11.00am - 11.00pm 

3 states in 3 days- Sydney: The Meat & Wine Co.

——-12/03/2012——-

We weren’t out to try and eat at all ‘The Meat & Wine Co’ chains in the country, in fact we had actually booked for lunch in Sydney before we ate at the Meat & Wine Co in Melbourne. I didn’t really mind as we had burgers in Melbourne and today we were here to eat some steak and ribs!

Prime real estate being situated in Darling Harbour next to the IMAX theatre.

View from our seats during a cloudy ‘best eating weather’ day.

Monte dry-aged- Rump Cap grain fed (350g) Using a time-old traditional aging method, our well marbled Monte Beef choice cuts are aged for approximately 4 weeks in a special temperature controlled environment. The end result is a more tender texture and a sweet nature full flavour $34.00

Extras~

Creamy garlic sauce ($3.00)

I really enjoyed the steak, albeit it wasn’t the best steak I’ve ever eaten and there was a little part of the steak that was burnt. I did read that other reviewers were annoyed that the waiter would ask them what sauce they wanted with their steak making it sound like it came with it and was angry to find out later they were $3+ each, but I really wanted the creamy garlic sauce and it was sooo worth it!

Pork ribs half rack slow cooked in BBQ sauce and finished on a flaming hot char-grill, sealing in our unique taste and flavour and served with super crunchy chips ($37.00) I love the set up, a nice bowl with lemon for cleaning your hands with and another to dispose all of the bones. They were good ribs and the chips were really nice too.

A lovely place to eat with attentive staff and an extensive wine list and it must be good as everyone around us was drinking.

We were trying to have a small lunch in hopes that we would be able to squeeze in a bowl of ramen but by the time we ate our steak and 1/2 rack of ribs, we only had room for a little bit of ice-cream…

3 states in 3 days- Sydney: Kam fook

——-11/03/2012——-

Rarely do all my family get to sit down and eat together since we have all moved out of home, so it is great when we are all in the area to go out and eat some seafood… Oh and spend time with each other 

Complimentary soup

Mud crab cooked with ginger and shallot and a noodle base OMG so good! The only bad thing was I had to share it with 9 other people 

Mushroom stuffed with fish I didn’t realise they were stuffed until I flipped it over. It was such a delicious rich brown sauce that made the mushroom extra juicy when you bite into it.

Wagyu Steak with honey and black pepper We didn’t necessarily think the meat was wagyu calibre, it was still tender nonetheless. Perfect amount of honey and black pepper!

Some sort of chicken with sticky rice I don’t really recall what this was but it was really nice flat crispy chicken on top of a delicious bed of rice. I might have to show this picture so I can order it again next time.

Fish soup fungus and vegetables Definitely a Winter warmer. I didn’t eat much of this but I did have the soup with the bok choy.

Yin Yang fried rice A favourite for the young and old. This beautiful rice is presented as the name suggests, in the shape of ‘yin yang’, with chicken, onion and a tomato base side tucked up next to a creamy prawn side. Some people like scooping from one side or the other but I liked both mixed in together. 

Complimentary fruit platter After all the food I guess it’s good to eat some fruit, they weren’t particularly sweet though.

Complimentary sweet soup- red bean soup Mmmmm my favourite Chinese sweet soup served nice and warm.

Complimentary random assorted biscuits Not very overly sweet or maybe I should have eaten this before the red bean soup.

The food was served rather promptly with both waiter and a server for each dish. Everyone got food really quickly which is great because I was starving. I’ve also been here for yum cha and even though it gets really busy, this never has put a strain on the large number of staff.

Anonymous asked: Hi there, just to let you know, you're publishing your posts on urbanspoon months in advance so it's always stuck at the top for months and months when we want to see new blog posts.

Hi Anonymous,

I’m eating faster than I can blog so I’m about two months behind. I add the Urbanspoon link at the bottom so people can gauge what percentage of other people liked or disliked the same restaurant. Urbanspoon seems to be publishing the date as either: 1). The date I post onto my blog 2). The date that I ate at the restaurant or 3). The date that they think I ate at the restaurant and somehow confusing the day with the month.

This is obviously something I cannot control and I assure you I’m not deliberately trying ‘to get stuck up the top for months’, but thanks for letting me know.