At least it should
I have chosen to see how long it will take me to eat at 100 restaurants. Some parts of this journey will be alone, and some will be with friends. It won’t be alphabetical, and it won’t always be close to my house, counting up to the Valley as close. Now that I have started the first step, everywhere I eat at, and the caveat is I have to sit and eat there, will count towards the hundred. I am going to keep a record of everywhere I go, and how many times I go there. Not how much I spend though, I don’t want to think about that bit. For now..
Step one.
While I have only been going to detour for a little over a year, it is one of my favourite restaurants. Full of wonderful dishes, amazing chefs and excellent staff.
No more bees, but that is ok.
My journey begins with Beetroot Tartare and a side of Wombok Salad. Oh, and a long black of course.
I chose to start with something I have never had before, from there, and that happened to be the Beetroot Tartare.
A small hill of small cubes of beetroot (where does small become tiny?), on a lovely creamy base of… of… I have no idea what but it was tasty. Having just looked up the menu, I think it was made of macadamia’s and capers, not 100% certain though. All of this was accompanied by mustard flavoured poppadoms. The whole lot combined was incredible. A burst of sweet, slightly tarty beetroot on a soft mix of macadamia and caper, all sitting on top of a mustard flavoured poppadom. The flavour was amazing, I may have to order two next time I have this.
I had this accompanied by a wombok salad. This is a really simple mix of wombok, salmon and sesame seed crackers, but it’s very good. It is also the salad that made me more willing to eat wombok salad in other venues I frequent. I especially love this dish because it is really simple yet really tasty.
I followed all of this with Poached Rhubarb. I have loved desserts with rhubarb in them for as long as I can remember. This was a fairly new edition to their menu(to me anyway) and as soon as I saw it I yelled across the restaurant that that was what I wanted. Don’t fret, I was the only one in there at that point in time, and was happy to let my excitement overtake me. I was not disappointed. This dish was great, not quite divine (damn lack of bees), but really good. The sauce itself was amazing, and I was really, really tempted to lick the bowl clean. I didn’t, but I cam close.
This was the first step of my one hundred restaurant jouney. I know some weekends are going to be like this, and so I will try to write about extra things, see below.
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On Sunday we went to Taco Bell. I have wantedto go here since it opened, mainly out of sheer curiousity. If you too are curious, please don’t let what I have to say put you off.
Taco Bell was not packed when we got there, but it was pretty busy. There were at least three tables I noticed that were free, and their one high chair was being used. The line up was to the door, and there were more people coming in.
We gradually made our way to the counter. I had already decided I wanted the double crunch wrap thing. Which is TWO tacos filled with meat or beans, in a wrap with lettuce and tomato and maybe onion. I also asked for large chips. If I got large chips, they are skimping on the chips. It was the size of a regular chips from some places, and a small from others. They were probably the tastiest bit though.
I am stalling.
Deliberately.
See the problem is that it wasn’t bad. Bad would have been good in this case. Horrible would have taken me back, just to experience the horrificness of it all again. It was bland. Just food, with no real flavour. The whole experience was a bit boring really. I am not sure why people line up as much as they do, maybe because it’s new, because the food isn’t good, it isn’t bad, it is just…there.
Except the nacho cheese dipping sauce.
That was shit.
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