Steps 2 through to 6

Step Two – Lady Marmalade’s

It sounds weird to me to say step two, but stair two sounded even weirder. On Wednesday I went to Lady Marmalade’s in Stones Corner for lunch. This used to be somewhere I went to every morning for breakfast on my way to work, until work moved, and they renovated…and I found I could take more time if I wasn’t trying to catch two trains.

This is still a place I love to get food from.

On Wednesday, that food was a BLT with pumpkin sourdough.

 

For the handful of you that don’t know, which may actually be zero of you, a BLT is a Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato sandwich. And boy did this one have bacon. I loved the amount of bacon on it. It seemed thicker than all of the rest of the sandwich. I also did not ask them to add sriracha to this, which I am prone to adding to everything.

The bacon was not my favourite bit of this though.

The pumpkin sourdough was great. If you don’t like pumpkin, I will eat yours. It was orange, for starters, and my first thought was how much pumpkin does it take to turn sour dough orange. Surely, not much.

Does it taste like pumpkin? YES, yes it does. Not just pumpkin. It tasted, obviously. like pumpkin sour dough. I couldn’t eaten a whole loaf of this, dipping it the whole time in pumpkin soup. That would be amazing. Does anyone know how to make sourdough? Is this a thing we can do?

Stairs Three and Four – Barbacoa and La Mimosa Gelato.

These two places are within Taco throwing distance of each other. I haven’t tested this and I don’t intend to waste a taco on it.

Barbacoa has been consistently good. I have been there a few times and every time I have enjoyed the meal. Except that to me, it is not hot enough when you ask for hot, but for most people it possibly is.

On Saturday, I got nacho’s and a soft taco. They were both pretty good. On the taco I had some sort of beef, that was pink enough for me to be comfortable eating.

There is not a lot I can add they you wouldn’t already know about taco’s and nachos. I don’t think I haven’t met anyone that hasn’t eaten them at least once, even at home.

Also if you are about to ask why I didn’t eat this at home. I didn’t want to. I wanted to eat it at Barbacoa. I wanted to sit in the restaurant and eat my nacho’s with my friends while drinking Jarritos Mexican Cola.

The food here is great, it is about 20 steps to the cinema, maybe 30, and only 15 steps (about a taco throw I guess) from gelati.

After Barbacoa we went to La Mimosa Gelato. The guy who runs this place is great a gelati, not so great at people but I think he thinks he is. I am scared if he becomes great at people his gelati skills will fade and this place will become some chain sushi coffee shop thing. I got a large cup of Raspberry, Sour Cherry and some other flavour Gelati as well as an Affogato with Hazelnut gelati (my favourite affogato was with durian ice cream but La Mimosa doesn’t have that).

Earlier in the week I had done this particular run as well, and I got a Quesadilla from Barbacoa and a Gelati Cone from La Mimosa. The flavours I got on the cone were not available on Saturday, but were brilliant. I got Choc & Raspberry and Ginger & Pear. When the two flavours merged, it was surprisingly really good. I already loved both the flavours individually and was curious how they would merge.

Wonderfully as it turns out.

Leap Five – Nandos

Places like this are going to pop up on the list all the time. Some chains you know exist, some you don’t find out are chains until someone says they went to the same place in Melbourne. I don’t think anyone reading this hasn’t at least heard of Nandos.

Due to sheer laziness, I get the same thing at Nandos a lot. I get the bbq thighs, extra hot, as a large meal. This is pure, 100%, lazy for me. I do it solely so I don’t have to worry about bones and can just eat. I am not ashamed of that. If the option presents itself to eat something in an easier way, I’m going to say yes.

Maybe.

I’m not sure I would eat/drink blended Nandos…unless you added enough sauce that it turned into a soup I guess. Spicy chicken and potato, and/or corn, soup. Yeah I’d do that.

I have also noticed I am not actually talking about Nandos food, so I guess that means it is time to move on.

It was good, in that it wasn’t any different to any other time I ordered it.

Hop Six – 4 Fingers Crispy Chicken.

Ok, I have been here before, it is another chain but the one in the city is relatively quiet. I am guessing it gets enough business to remain open.

I have written about this before, I think, saying that the hot isn’t, for me anyway. The chicken is pretty good though.

I really like the way they cook chicken. I don’t think it is healthy, but it is pretty tasty still.

I got a Drumsitick, two wings, a drummette, a chicken chop and some chips. The chicken chop is the one that I want to talk about though. This is like a less flat chicken schnitzel, with the four fingers batter. I have had similar looking things from other places, that were dry and stringy and the only real flavour was from the chicken salt. This was not like that. It was juicy, tasty and surprisingly moreish. Luckily I had already eaten everything else first, so I didn’t get up and eat anymore of it. I am still not certain why, as I was not entirely full at this point.

There are other things on the menu, mainly seafood, but I have yet to have that stuff. I think they have rice and salad too…checking menu online. Ok, yep rice and salad.

 

 

 

 

Finally

I am not following any path here, and just going where I want when I want. So I don’t know where I am going next, but I am looking forward to it.