December 2007 - Canberra Table

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Canberra Table - December 2007

Just a quickie....

December 18th 2007 04:05

Went out to a christmas funtion at the green herring ( yes i know again but i promise they are not paying me to come) it was superb as per usual you could try to get in before christmas but to be honest i don't like your chances click here for the full review and some more links.
I also had the pleasure of dining at the cafe at reid CIT great food and very reasonable prices i have tried the pizzas and their steak sandwich and after you have that you can drop into the regional shop and pick up some great ready made meals and produce

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Satis in Watson

December 18th 2007 00:31

Well in all my time writting stuff for this site i have not found a cafe so invisible there are no photos on the net and no phone numbers the shop front is tiny and virtually no one has heard of it. sounds like the sort of cafe that will fade off into the distance very quickly if you look it from this angle, but i would have to say that this lack of advertisement has in no way harmed Satis's marketabilty. The sunday myself my wife and kids visited, the place was packed, the coffee was flowing and the food was sizzling. we bunched into the windoor seat (you know the one thats in the window next to the door and could easily be another door) and enjoyed the scene. the heavily timbered room was accented with antique light fittings with some more modern touches such as the arty stainless kitchen hood and funky art works.

now i will warn all you unadventuress carnivores out there that this is a vegetarian cafe, so no asking about the bacon and certainly don't ask for your tofu medium rare. The menu is fantastic and eclectic, the total absence of flesh is both refreshing and most importantly does not limit choice. I have worked in plenty of restaurants where vegetarians are not catered for lightly, but in actual fact cooking with out meat is both simple and varied and after eating at a number of vego places in canberra i would have to disagree with any die hard fan of blood and bone saying they must have meat in every meal.
for my dish i enjoy a wild rice porridge with a fruit compote ( i think it could have been vegan) the rice was cooked just perfectly with the grains not burst and just a touch of a bite with the dark red plum pear and i think berry of the fruit mix it made for a filling and thoughly enjoyable breaky. my wife had the scrambled soft tofu with chilli and basil. i managed to pinch a mouthful and it was also lovely but you have to ask my wife for more details as she did make short work of this tasty morsel

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Malibu mex

December 14th 2007 01:00

The sculpture wall

Like mexican food? i don't, not the stuff you generally get in a mexican restaurant, all too much cheese and ground beef no where near enough corriander real chilli guacomole and the thousands of other food innovations and ingredients that were pillaged form south America scant centuries ago. Malibu mex is still pretty much a standard mexican restaurant though it does come in near the top of the category, the food is fresh the helpings are bloody big and there is more ground beef and melted cheese then you would ever have time to poke a stick at. For the food that is all that needs to be said. The main reason people keep coming back is definately the atmosphere, no offence to the food, it's not bad i just think ive said all that needed to be said.

The coolest seats

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I am thru with apologies(welcome to the silly season)

December 12th 2007 22:47

Yes thats right no more apologies, in fact i won't even use the word. i love writting for this site but for the last few monthes i have been doing some really cool stuff at the reid cit. now you have my less divided attention i plan to go over a few other thing i might do. the last post i wrote was a third person piece on the green herring... i realised its been too long between posts when i find myself going back to same restaurant i did my last post on tonite.; so i will do an updated first hand regular style post on the green herring.. if you are looking for a booking they are pretty packed this time of year so dont be surprised if you cant get a table phoning a week before. I am currently learning some cool things to do with on line learning so i will most likely inflict some amatuer mulitimedia on y'all in the near future but have no fear of this becoming a techie kind of site, there will be some links to couple of cool design sites a friend put me onto and some chicken scratch photostories but i won't be posting purely in java script until hell is cold enough for a herd of elephants to ice skate over. i am pretty sure i made some promises about some up coming posts so i promise not to make promises like that again, i will however not apologies (oops there i go again) for making those promises, because i honestly think that lying to you all those monthes ago has kept at least a couple of people checking my site to see if the lying bastard has posted the much awaited post on... well i can't remeber now but i will when i have written it. Regards Dave.
oh by the way heres my animoto thingy i did took about 15 minute and was quite fun to make so have a go if you want

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