Lunch time with the girls - Cafe Sopra

Seeing as Aunty Dob is here for a few days we may as well make the most of it and go somewhere decent for lunch. Sopra isn't far from work, for me, and not far from home for the girls. A convenient walk it is but I'd even take a long bus ride to eat here. Always so fresh and delicious. My sweet tooth craves the merengata (formerly known as the Eton Mess) - chantilly cream, meringue and strawberries. Georgia now has the taste for it and I have had to learn to share. Funny what you discover when you do research. Apparently the meringue was invented by an Italian chef in the Swiss village of Meiringen. Interestingly the meringue in the form of pavlova is the Australian, and NZ, national dessert. This merengata is essentially a smashed pavlova. I love pav.

Porteño

Aunty Dob is visiting this weekend so we had to take her somewhere that serves something better than the muck they dish up in Melbourne. So where better than Porteño? Porteño has become one of the hottest places in town and, conveniently, it is one of the closest restaurants to our place. We'd travel a lot further to eat there though. A lot.

CABALLA AHUMADA CON
PALMITOS Y SALSA GOLF
Smoked Mackerel, Palm Heart,
Avocado & Pickled Celery

ENSALADA PALERMO VIEJO
BBQ Eggplant, Peppers, Cauliflower
with Tahini and Quail Egg

CALAMRES ASADO
BBQ Calamari with Chickpea Sofrito,
Preserved Lemon & Watercress

MORCILLA
Blood Sausage with Red Peppers in Garlic

CHANCHITO A LA CRUZ
8 hour Woodfired Pig

A tad over 9 months old

We couldn't be happier

Grand Final day 2011