Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Spaghettini's at Empire Hotel - Mon, 28th Jan 2008

It was Mum's birthday yesterday so we trooped off to Spaghettini's to have a celebratory meal. We had all our usual favourites, such as:

Antipasti (a fantastic selection of about 24? types of starters) - I chose my favourites such as cold slices of roast beef, mixed lettuce, grilled baby squid, mushrooms, parmesan crisp, asparagus and roma tomatoes with a drizzle of Italian dressing over the plate).

Spaghetti and Fettucine Carbonara
DUCK CONFIT RISOTTO (My favourite - it was absolutely beautiful, al dente rice cooked in a rich flavourful meat broth, with generous shreds of home-made duck confit - eat with some black pepper and you are instantly transported to ? Yup, paradise!..)
My main course is again my firm favourite - 2 little perfectly done tenderloins with a rich jus, served with spinach and kipfler potatoes.
Yums right?
KF had parpadelle with a lamb ragout

and for desserts we had ice-cream, 2 orders warm chocolate tart, 2 orders of tiramisu and Chef surprised us with a panna cotta with raspberry sauce.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MUM!!!! (and many more....)..
After dinner activities - the usual pizza dough shaping and playing on the gorgeous piano.

With many thanks to Chef Frianto and his crew (AhJoy/Jeremy and everyone in the kitchen) for cooking our food so beautifully, and of course Jenna and her team for the great service.

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