Black Coffee Lyrics

Orchid Ave, Surfers Paradise, Australia

http://blackcoffeelyrics.com.au/

Our Scoring System: We Rate Overall out of 10, (1 being the worst, 10 the best) and then everything else we rate out of 5 Hash Tags (#), (1 being the worst and 5 (# # # # #) the best) and Price Range, 1 ($) being not value for money and 5 ( $ $ $ $ $)  excellent value for money.

Rated: 9 out of 10 

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We finally made it round to BCL after hearing rave reviews from all different people, and it lived up to the hype! The Food was amazing and the cocktails even more so! Very Impressed.
The Degustation is the best way to try all their menu (if you haven't been before) and we will be going back again very soon to try their pizza's (the pork belly pizza sounds divine! )

BCL is a little tricky to get to, basically in the locally named 'Asian Alley' (basically the one alley which features every Asian restaurant you could imagine) and then go up the outside stairs and it in the middle. 

Starter - Pumpkin Soup

Stuffed And Deep Fried Zucchini Flowers & Mixed Olives & A amazing Guava Colada Cocktail

Entree Board - Meatballs, Pork Belly, Quail, Mushrooms, Rice Cake

Apple Ginger Fizz Cocktail !

Seared Scallops with Parsnip Puree

Eye Fillet with a Red Wine Jus and Onion Ring

Duck Breast with Beetroots and Bitter Chocolate Sauce

Pandan Dessert

Desserts

Flour less Chocolate Cake with Chocolate & Orange Ice Cream

Sydney Macaron's

The Great Macaron Debate! Laduree or Zumbaron's  ?

Laduree

Adriano Zumbo Macaron's

http://adrianozumbo.com/the-star-menu/

The Way I See this debate, Laduree is good for Classic Flavours, Zumbo is out of the box with his flavours, such as recently I tried of his, Tequila, Lemon & Salt Macaron, Malted Milk Macaron & Salted Butter Popcorn Macaron. Highly Yum!!

Also of Zumbo's we have had Mr Tom Brown - DIVINE!!  As well as Dirty Dani, not bad, Lemon Tart - Very Yum, and a pistachio tart which was not bad either. If you are ever in Sydney, The Zumbo at The Star Hotel & Casino is worth visiting, and take lots of money!!

ARIA

Eagle St Pier, Brisbane, Australia 

 

http://www.ariarestaurant.com/brisbane

Our Scoring System: We Rate Overall out of 10, (1 being the worst, 10 the best) and then everything else we rate out of 5 Hash Tags (#), (1 being the worst and 5 (# # # # #) the best) and Price Range, 1 ($) being not value for money and 5 ( $ $ $ $ $)  excellent value for money.

Rated: 9.5 out of 10 

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We came for Lunch to Aria, after months of trying to make it to Brisbane! We had the Seasonal Tasting Menu which featured 7 tantalizing courses and the view was perfect.
We where lucky that they were rather quiet for lunch and allowed us to have Seared Scallops instead of the Artichoke Salad (which I would not have eaten anyway), however they firmly stated it was a once off, nonetheless, impressed that they could accommodate :) 

Smoked Ocean Trout - Perfect

Seared Scallops - amazing!

Tiger Prawn with Buttermilk & Caviar Sauce - so so very yum

Peking Duck Consomme with Duck Dumplings - amazing

Pork Belly with Green Tomato & Jalapeno Salad - yum

Beef Fillet with Braised Beef Cheeks - Rich and Hearty

Pre- Dessert, So Amazing, Vanilla & Date concoction

Panna Cotta with Rhubarb & Strawberry Sorbet

Will Happily Visit again! However do not park underneath during the day, they do not validate parking tickets (ridiculous as we spent over $300 on lunch and still had to pay $75 for parking ?! ) Not impressed about that, but everything else was amazing, highly recommend!