Showing posts with label Bright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bright. Show all posts
Monday, 14 June 2010
Frosty Bright morning
I forgot how cold it can get down in Victoria in the winter time. We don't often get frosty mornings like this in inner Sydney.
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Simone's Of Bright
One thing we can be almost certain of in coming to the North East of Victoria is that we will get a good feed at Simone's Of Bright. It is two great meals from two visits for us from this two hat rated restaurant. Forget the overly hyped big city cousins. Simone's is the real deal. And it isn't expensive. On long weekends Simone's has an $85 set menu. Still plenty of choice though. Enough choice to make choosing hard.
First choice for me though was a Brandy Alexander. I haven't had one of these creamy concoctions in years. Nothing like lining the stomach with cream.
Home made focaccia.
Caramelised onion soup with shaved pork hock and cauliflower florettes.
Tortino di polenta con ragu di funghi
Twice baked polenta souffle with wild mushroom ragu, shaved truffle pecorino.
Scallops, cauliflower purre, cottechino pork sausage.
Gnocchi al tartufo
Umbrian Gnocchetti, gorgonzola and taleggio, autumn black truffle.
Maiale locale arrosto con coppa fritta, tonno del chianti e mele seccho
Roasted Berkshire pork, fried lemon braised cheek, grilled radicchio, fennel, Wandi apple, Italian vincotto.
Tiramisu 2009
Classical version of this famous Italian dessert with Mauri mascarpone, Vittoria coffee, Italian pavasini biscuits, shaved chocolate.
Piatto di Cioccolato
Simone's chocolate plate; Dargo walnut brownie topped with white chocolate, baci ice cream, dark chocolate mousse cannoli, rich hot drinking chocolate.
Sorbetto di lupplo
Green galaxy hopped sorbet; variety unique to this valley.
Extraordinary. Best sorbet ever. Tasted hoppy but not overly so. Really unusual.
Campbells muscat. Another top drop but not as ridiculously smooth and delicious as the Campbells Merchant Prince Rare Muscat we had in Beechworth. That was seriously silky.
Simone's Of Bright is at 98 Gavan St. Bright Victoria and it has been awarded a well deserved 2 Hats from the Good Food Guide.
First choice for me though was a Brandy Alexander. I haven't had one of these creamy concoctions in years. Nothing like lining the stomach with cream.
Home made focaccia.
Caramelised onion soup with shaved pork hock and cauliflower florettes.
Tortino di polenta con ragu di funghi
Twice baked polenta souffle with wild mushroom ragu, shaved truffle pecorino.
Scallops, cauliflower purre, cottechino pork sausage.
Gnocchi al tartufo
Umbrian Gnocchetti, gorgonzola and taleggio, autumn black truffle.
Maiale locale arrosto con coppa fritta, tonno del chianti e mele seccho
Roasted Berkshire pork, fried lemon braised cheek, grilled radicchio, fennel, Wandi apple, Italian vincotto.
Tiramisu 2009
Classical version of this famous Italian dessert with Mauri mascarpone, Vittoria coffee, Italian pavasini biscuits, shaved chocolate.
Piatto di Cioccolato
Simone's chocolate plate; Dargo walnut brownie topped with white chocolate, baci ice cream, dark chocolate mousse cannoli, rich hot drinking chocolate.
Sorbetto di lupplo
Green galaxy hopped sorbet; variety unique to this valley.
Extraordinary. Best sorbet ever. Tasted hoppy but not overly so. Really unusual.
Campbells muscat. Another top drop but not as ridiculously smooth and delicious as the Campbells Merchant Prince Rare Muscat we had in Beechworth. That was seriously silky.
Simone's Of Bright is at 98 Gavan St. Bright Victoria and it has been awarded a well deserved 2 Hats from the Good Food Guide.
Bogong View Motel
We knew before we went on the trip that getting accommodation in Bright might be an issue on a long weekend. I had tried a few places and the ones that had vacancies had a minimum stay policy for long weekends. 2 or more nights only. We only wanted one night so were lucky enough to get rooms at the Bogong View Motor Inn for the one night. It is just about the cheapest motel in Bright too. On their website it doesn't say anything about WiFi so were pleasantly surprised to turn up and find out that they do have WiFi. It wasn't working at first but after I made a trip to the motel's office and asked them to reboot their router we had free internet. Woohoo.
I have vague memories of coming to the Bogong View restaurant as a kid. Can't remember the occasion or anything. Tonight though we were going to Simone's.
I have vague memories of coming to the Bogong View restaurant as a kid. Can't remember the occasion or anything. Tonight though we were going to Simone's.
Bright Brewery
Just 7 minutes walk from our motel is the Bright Brewery. As you can imagine the first thing we did after dumping our bags at the motel was head to the Brewery. It looked like it was pumping when we drove past.
Bright is a small town at the foot of the Victorian alpine ski resorts. It has always been very touristy but now it has a brewery. The local school was having a charity auction to raise funds for the school at the brewery. That explained why there were so many people there.
Anyway the brewery makes a half dozen or so brews but the beer of the day for me was the dark Dubell. 9% alcohol. After a couple of those you get a nice buzz going.
Bright is a small town at the foot of the Victorian alpine ski resorts. It has always been very touristy but now it has a brewery. The local school was having a charity auction to raise funds for the school at the brewery. That explained why there were so many people there.
Anyway the brewery makes a half dozen or so brews but the beer of the day for me was the dark Dubell. 9% alcohol. After a couple of those you get a nice buzz going.
Sunday, 7 June 2009
Simone's 6
Simone's restaurant Bright
Simone's is a 2 hat restaurant in Bright run by Patrizia and George Simone. Patrizia is the head chef too. She noticed that we'd been sitting at the bar for a while waiting for our table so she brought us some bruschetta to snack on. As Bruce Mcavaney would say... delicious.
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