The Cut Bar & Grill, The Rocks

After the hectic week, finally I can sit down to have a proper meal. I have chosen my favourite 4-hour slow roast sher F1 wagyu standing rib to start! I just love this perfect cooked pink colour and it is very juicy too.

4 Hour Slow Roast Wagyu Rib - Standard Cut and Roasted Beetroot Salad on the background

After trying out their sticky date pudding, I cannot go without dessert. This time I chose something different, the lemon custard. It is a good way to finish off the night!

Lemon Custard, Sable Pistachio Meringue, Mascapone Sorbet

The Cut Bar & Grill, The Rocks

Miss iCon will soon leave Sydney for good and we want to eat a few more nice places before she goes. We decided to go to The Cut Bar and Grill at The Rocks.

The Cut Bar and Grill

The restaurant is located at the lower level of a heritage Argyle building.

Cured Meats Plate: Viande des Grisons - Air Dried Beef; Serrano Jamon de Jabujanes Gran Reserva; Prosciutto di San Danielle

Kingfish Carpaccio with Radish and Capers

We started off with some entrees, Cured Meats Plate and Kingfish Carpaccio.

Tasmanian Wilderness Grass Feed - New York Sirloin

4-Hour Slow Roast Sher F1 Wagyu Standing Rib - Standard Cut

Then comes the main we are looking for... STEAK!! The 4 Hour slow roast is served from its Wagyu trolley. It cooked to perfection. No wonder it is their famous dish!!! Yum...

Fried Rosemary Potatoes with Prosciutto; Steamed Green Peas, Onion and Mint

I also love their fried rosemary potatoes with prosciutto. The potatoes is so creamy and full of the rosemary aroma.

Fried Cauliflower Salad

As we were so full, we have skipped our dessert. I'll miss all the fun eating with you! All the best my dear friend.

The Cut Bar & Grill

16 Argyle Street

The Rocks NSW

(02) 9259 5695

Tara Tea Room, The Rocks

I was busy shopping at The Rocks Market and started to feel a bit tired. I think I will need to find a place to sit down and relax. I saw this heritage terrace with a sign saying "scones out of the oven". The clock on the sign is striking now and this is it! :) 

You have to walk pass a long hallway toward the end and found this cosy tea room behind an Irish gift shop. Settling at a table and scanning through their menu. It is either Devonshire Tea or a Tasting Basket for 2. There are a lot of teas to choose from and they have a variety of coffees too.

Tasting Basket for Two

I picked the tasting basket as it has 5 scones in the basket. Their scones are fluffy and soft with crusty outer. Their homemade jam is great compliment to these scones. I love it.

Teapot with Tea Cosy

I have also ordered a variety of loose leaf tea and herbal fusion. I love how they "dress up" their teapot to serve. Each one has a tea cosy and their colour represent a different type of tea which ordered.

It is a good choice to wind down shopping at the market earlier. :p

Tara Tea Room

33 George Street

The Rocks NSW

(02) 9247 3233

Sake Restaurant & Bar, The Rocks

After watching the episode of Master Chef showing how to make sushi, Miss S wants to try the restaurant who the Chef, Shaun Presland, is on the show. She arranged the booking and waiting for the night to come! Since it happened to be Vivid Sydney as well, which the Opera House will be lighted up, we went to The Rocks early to take a few shots before dinner. Glad that there is no rain at the time. It has been raining cats and dogs for over a week!!! Here is the photo of Vivid Sydney.

 Lighting of Sails

After a few shots of Vivid Sydney, we went to our booking at Sake.

Sake Restaurant and Bar

We were lead to our table... the seats and the table is fixed!! It's very hard to get in... especially with our thick jacket and our camera gears. After squeezing into our table, we had to find the menu. It has been narrowly folded printed sheet which was place on top of the sharing plate. We read through the menu and picked the dishes we like.

 The Menu

There are different type of green tea available and we have picked one of each to try. The strongest out of all is the hojicha then follow kukicha. The lightest is the genmacha.

 Various Green Tea

The waiter told us that the sushi or sashimi dishes will come first then following with the main. However, our first dish to arrive is the popcorn shrimp. As the name suggested, the prawn has cut into bite size. The prawn has been mixed deep fried with tempura batter. The creamy spicy sauce is not too spicy. This is the highlight of the day.

 Popcorn Shrimp: bite sized prawn tempura pieces tossed with creamy spicy sauce

We found the name panko rice ball interesting and order this dish. When it arrived, it's not what we expected. As the rice ball has been deep fried!!

 Panko Rice Balls: soy bean & bamboo, shitake mushroom balls with wasabi aioli

It then followed with tartare trio. The kingfish is not as fresh which has a strong fishy taste. Lucky that we only ordered this sashimi dish.

 Tartare Trio: tuna with wasabi soy; salmon with ponzu; kingfish with ceviche dressing

The beef is grilled quite juicy and tender. The spicy antichucho sauce is the highlight of the kushiyaki.

 Beef Kushiyaki with spicy anticucho sauce

We were suggested to order this miso butterfish since this is one of the signature dish of Sake. The fish has been marinated with a sweet miso. The miso sauce is a bit salty, may be we should order this dish with rice?

 Miso Butterfish

We were hoping to order the salmon skin maki. However, it was sold out for the night. :( We then ordered our usual spider maki.

 Spider Maki

Since our stomach still had some spaces, we ordered some desserts as well. Our eyes were on the matcha bombe alaska. The taste of the green tea ice-cream is not strong. There is also some matcha fairy floss which brought back our childhood memories. :)

 Matcha Bombe Alaska

We also ordered reen-apple mille-feuille which is a green apple mousse with layers of thin crispy pastry. This is to my surprise a very nice dessert. :)

 Reen-Apple  Mille-Feuille

We saw George Calombaris walked into the restaurant and seated next to our table. The head chef of Sake was delivering all the dishes to them. I cant remember how many dishes they have ordered, but can they really finished them all?

Sake Restaurant & Bar

12 Argyle Street

The Rocks, Sydney NSW 2000

Phone 02 9259 5656

Baroque Bistro Patisserie, The Rocks

My friend from overseas visiting and thinking where shall we head out for a nice dinner. As usual doing a few search and reading a few review and found this place, Baroque Bistro, which opened not long ago. It is the same owner as my favourite patisseries La Renaissance. It is a causal relaxing style restaurant. The menu has a few to choose from (which is good enough for me to make the decision) There are also daily special from their blackboard.

The complimentary bread with olive oil is served. The baguette is so crusty and I cant stop my hand picking another piece! The ocean trout tartare is being served. It is just so delicious... The main is followed... Duck two ways, baby beetroot, orange sauce. Butcher cut of beef, fries, sauce bordelaise. This is the today special truite grenobloise: whole trout grenobloise. Forgot the name of this dish but it's pork neck. The meat is so tender... it just melted in my mouth! Our side, salad of organic greens, vegetables, potato crisp, walnut vinaigrette. Cannot finish a meal without the dessert, we cant really choose which one to order. If we arent so full, I think I will choose at least 2 of them. The vanilla creme brulee with pistachio ice cream. Once you put in your mouth the first spoonful, you will want to have more!!

The most important of all, thanks for your company to make this meal very enjoyable!!! :)

* Some of these photos were taken using mobile phone. The quality of these photos arent as good. 

Baroque Bistro Bar Patisserie
88 George Street
The Rocks NSW 2000
02 9241 4811