Lady River wrote:I'm not from there but I did go to a lovely french restaurant in sydney itself, called the little snail - https://thelittlesnail.com.au/

I was lucky to get a groupon voucher for it for christmas and Peter and I went and it was divine, we'd go back again.

Thank you very much! It looks pretty good.

Everyone seems to recommend me either Japanese of French restaurants in Sydney. I find it very interesting, especially considering I'm French and the husband is Japanese XD

Well, at least you're not living in France, so having a nice french restaurant might still be nice? ;) Or are french restaurants at the other end of the world way too different to restaurants in France for you to enjoy them in a "tastes like home" manner?

Actually, I really enjoy French food abroad. Most places use local ingredients so it's really interesting to see how they "make it French". And the husband enjoys "strange sushi" as he calls it so it's kinda become a tradition to go for sushi abroad as well.
That and to be honest, I haven't had access to what's everyone considers French cuisine in my lost countryside, in my time living there I've probably gone out to eat more pizzas than typical French food XD So I'm getting the lost time back in a way ^^

That being said, Tokyo is a paradise for food lovers, I can eat at a famous chef's restaurant for the price of a pizza where I lived.
And I do cook a lot.

Kuuki wrote:

Lady River wrote:I'm not from there but I did go to a lovely french restaurant in sydney itself, called the little snail - https://thelittlesnail.com.au/

I was lucky to get a groupon voucher for it for christmas and Peter and I went and it was divine, we'd go back again.

Thank you very much! It looks pretty good.

Everyone seems to recommend me either Japanese of French restaurants in Sydney. I find it very interesting, especially considering I'm French and the husband is Japanese XD

hah I didn't know you are French :3


I really liked it, like we had 3 course meal..

I remember I had this lovely salmon and something else entree (I forgot what it was haha)

Then Kangaroo steak thing.. delicious. I know probably not really French but I'd never had roo before. I would again.

then we had this lovely dessert.

I'll go look at the menu to find the exact things we had. Though Peter had snails for entree (I couldn't), and salmon for main and same dessert.


Found what I had -
Entree -
SALMON ROULADE
filled with cheese mousseline, served with potato nest and passion fruit dressing.

Peter had for entree -
ESCARGOTS DE BOURGOGNE
dozen snails marinated in herb-infused court bouillon, oven baked in garlic butter

Main -
me -
KANGAROO FILLET
(recommend rare) on garlic pommes puree with a Dijon mustard and honey bordelaise sauce.

Peter -
CITRUS MARINATED TASMANIAN SALMON
served on crab meat risotto and roasted pepper coulis.

Dessert -
me and Peter each-
CHEF CHURNED HAZELNUT AND PRALINE ICE CREAM
on sable breton and Grand Marnier caramel.

I did take pics if you want...

Yup, no one seems to know. Or they don't know/remember the husband is Japanese. So it's interesting that despite that everyone recommends French or Japanese food.

I can't eat snails either. There's something about the texture that makes it impossible for me.

Thanks for looking it up for me! That's exactly what I meant by local ingredients. I mean, lately they've started serving kangaroo but it's definitely not typical French meat, just like the passion fruit dressing. I love this kind of detail.

I'm excited but sad we're only stay three days.
Our honeymoon is going to be a marathon but I can't wait.

wow those sound delish even to my vegetarian self passion fruit dressing sounds amazing

I looked up a recipe for that one I must admit.
Even though I don't have passion fruits nor did I see any sold lately.

Even if I had I'd probably end up eating it with yoghurt though ^^

It was very good food, I'd order that whole range again

I totally understand. Just looking at the description made me hungry.

My Sydney food list is so big that it seems I'll have to come again XD