Bills, Darlinghurst

How do you normal start your day? Today I start off with a very nice breakfast at Bills, Darlinghurst.

Sweet Corn Fritters with Roast Tomato, Spinach and Bacon; Side - Avocado Salsa

The avocado salsa is so yummy and goes well with the corn fritters.

Scrambled Eggs with Sourdough Toast, Bacon and Button Mushrooms with Garlic Confit

The scramble eggs is so creamy and you wanna have more.

Ricotta Hotcakes with Fresh Banana and Honeycomb Butter

Out of the three, ricotta hotcakes is slightly not as good as others. But it is still a good way to start a day! :)

Hot Chocolate

When they bring this hot chocolate, I thought this is very interesting hot chocolate. After a deep look and found they use chocolate chip instead of syrup. Nice!

Bills, Darlinghurst

433 Liverpool Street,

Darlinghurst NSW

(02) 9360 9631

The Victoria Room, Darlinghurst

I have been to The Victoria Room for their High Tea before. This time I am here for their dinner. It is a Sunday night and they have a Performance Carnival which we are unaware of. It is a variety of entertainment from the local artists and musicians.

Valentino (Non-Alcoholic)

Their long list of cocktails which didn't stop me from ordering some non-alcoholic drinks from the menu.

English Rose (Non-Alcoholic)

V R Punch Bowl: Serve 4 (Alcoholic)

Their Sunday night offers a special menu. It is mainly sharing plates. I guess it is allowing us to enjoy the entertainment better?

Tasting Plate Cold

The cold tasting plate including vegetable and goats cheese roulade, marinated Persian fetta, frittata, French prosciutto di parma and salami di cacciatore, artichoke heart, Reggiano grilled zucchini and Turkish bread. Just cant stop myself eating the prosciutto. :p

Tasting Plate Hot

The hot tasting plate including grilled chorizo, spicy chicken skewers, prawn and chickpea fritter, Argentinean calamari, pan friend haloumi. Their aioli sauce is really yummy. I have almost dipped everything to it.

Four Cheese Fondue

We also ordered 2 serves of four cheese fondue with fennel sausage, roasted potato, witlof and herb bread. I prefer the sausage and potato. The herb bread is not bad either. May be I don't like the bitterness in witlof.

Tart of Poached Pear soaked in a Brew of Decadent Mulled Wine with Vanilla Anglaise

With our sweet tooth, we have to order some desserts too.

Rose Pannacotta

Warm Belgian Chocolate Fondant with an Elegant Chocolate Sauce and Mascarpone

Chocolate and Hazelnut Mousse

This is my first time in Sydney where there is live entertainment while dining. It is certainly an interesting experience. :)

The Victoria Room

Level 1

235 Victoria Street

Darlinghurst NSW

(02) 9357 4488

Tapas, Tapas and more Tapas at Cantina, Darlinghurst

When I made the booking at Cantina Bar & Grill, the waiter told me a list of "rules". Since it was a birthday dinner for my friends, so it will be a big group of people, and the RULE is we must order the banquet from a range of $40 - $50 per person. Secondly, we must leave the restaurant by 9.15pm for the next session of diners. Thirdly is that there is a cakeage of $2 per person... I was thinking we will be there for a birthday and doing my sum in the head straight away... it is not worth it... we have to find another place to cut the cake.

Since Oxford Street is hard to find parking, I might just as well take a walk from the city to the restaurant. As I have dressed up with my heels on, only half way near Hyde Park my feet were calling me.... help help... I cant walk anymore!!! So I told myself I have to catch a bus from the next bus stop.

Didn't need to wait for too long a bus came... so I got onto the bus and buy the ticket. When the bus driver heard me saying "Taylor Square, please", he said "just up the road" with his finger pointing just up the hill. He smiled and gave me back the gold coin. Thank you Mr Bus Driver! :D

After getting off the bus, walking for a few minutes and I found the restaurant. The waiter showed me my table and I settled myself in. Since we were down to 7 people instead of the original 8 people, we didn't have to order from the banquet. :) I read the menu and see if there is anything interesting that I would love to try!
The birthday boy passed the responsibility of ordering food for the night to the birthday girl. She chose the food for us for the night! Yeah... no need to think what to eat!!!
We started off with a dip plate. The dips are white bean, chickpea, beetroot, pumpkin and eggplant. The bread is grilled olive sourdough. A mixed variety of dips with lovely sourdough! :)
The baby spinach salad is mixed with roasted pumpkin, goats cheese, pine nuts and grilled red peppers.
The chickpea salad is covered with lots of manchego cheese. It mixed with cucumber, grilled peppers, Spanish onion and mints. It is a refreshing starter! :) So far so good!

The must order dish, grilled Spanish chorizo.
I have requested to let me take a photos before smashing the egg yolk onto the air dryed wagyu beef. It is quite tasty!
The dusted calamari with chilli and lime is just so nice...
Finally the paella valenciana is very tasty. The prawn and mussels brings the sweetness taste to the rice. It also mixed with lots of veggies, green peas and roasted peppers.
That was all we ordered so far... but still hungry and we asked for the menu and order more! We ordered a few Today Special and pan-fried haloumi.

We have saved ourselves from desserts. Since there is a cakeage, we decided to head to my friend's home to cut the birthday cake. It was also time to return the table, perfect timing!
Hope you two had a great night and happy birthday! :)

Cantina Bar & Grill

245 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst NSW

Phone 9357 3033

Opening hours: Daily from 6pm till late (Licensed till 2am)