Syrup killed my art…

Ok, maybe that is extreme.

Syrup definitely ruined some though. Worth it.

This weekend started at The Burrow. A wonderful place in west end. The decor is cool, and the food is pretty good too.

I went there to draw, and eat obviously. I started with “The Mortgage Breaker” as I began my drawings.

“The Mortgage Breaker” Is avocado, lemon and toast. The avocado is drizzled with balsamic vinegar, and tastes pretty amazing. After finishing that, I remembered that avocado on toast is not enough for breakfast, especially for me.

I continued to draw and followed “The Mortgage Breaker” up with “The Lumberjack”.

A big breakfast by any other name…

“The Lumberjack” is pretty good if you’re hungry, or if you are in need of a second breakfast. Like me.

Pancakes, hash browns, bacon, sausages, and more filled the plate. I slowly made my way through the lot, leaving the pancakes until last. At some point between the pancakes and my mouth, the syrup dripped sneakily onto the table. I was getting annoyed at the drawing I was working on, and thought maybe it wasn’t working. I put the book picture side down to find a different one to finish and when I pulled the page up the ink had become a large blue black mass. No picture, just smeared, syrupy ink. Damn.

Oh well, definitely somewhere I am going back to.

Where everybody knows your name…

I do not drink very much alcohol. A glass every now and then is about it. My Cheers (if you don’t remember the TV show, or are too young to have seen it, you have YouTube, look it up) is a restaurant. A restaurant called Detour.

A restaurant, that I have mentioned many times here.

A restaurant, that for some bizarre reason, I walked to to make a booking on Tuesday because somewhere in my head I had decided that would be easier than ringing up.

Also, still my favourite place to go.

As some of you may be aware, I took the winner of the guess the next birthday of #coffeegoblin #boozemonkey there. Without looking at the booking, the new waitress was told I was at table 26. She then proceeded, after asking politely, to explain the menu and the way the dishes are intended to said winner as I was clearly a regular. Within the first few minutes, all of the staff I am usually chatting with had come to say hello.

I was already aware there was something new on the menu, and I am pretty sure they were already aware I was going to order it. At least, I am pretty sure there were bets placed.

The new dish was a goat dish, with pieces of goat, some skyr (some form of goats cheese, technically) and some Goat bacon. It was good. The goat was milder than what I am used to, but that kind of worked for this. The goat bacon thing was my favourite bit. It also had onion and brussels sprouts, which worked beautifully with it.

We also had salmon with black ants (I love this combination), that was done in a different way to the first time I had it. This time it was a few pieces of salmon, drizzled(?) with ants. Still a really good dish.

Finally, we had mushrooms (I’m going to look up and see what these dishes are called now).

Right We had “Yangan Valley Goat”, “Master Stock Salmon” and “King Brown Mushrooms”.

The mushrooms were really good. The chestnut pate with them, combined with the sunflower seed gave a mild miso flavour.

All of this was followed by my favourite panna cotta dessert, with freeze dried bees.

And Sunday we ate…

Sunday had more eating, of course.

I went to King of Kings, in the valley for yum cha. Where I ate so much, but as it was over the course of an hour I didn’t feel as bloated as I sometimes do after yum cha. I still waddled out of the place though, feeling like a happily stuffed penguin.

I think my favourite thing about yum cha is taking my time. Sitting and eating slowly and enjoying it. If you have friends with you to chat as you do so, it is even better. I could probably, happily sit in a yum cha place all day if they let me, just eating and chatting with friends. I think I would be able to roll home if I did though.

On that note, I am going to go and find something else to eat. Good night all, and eat well.