Andrew & I went out for a dinner to celebrate - kind of like (but not) a valentines and anniversary dinner.
I wanted to have some nice seafood, so that cut down the number of places that we had to chose from. In the end the location I chose was a restaurant at Portside. I just want to say that I LOVE what they have done with Portside - but the area around it really needs some work! I am sure that this will come with time.... So to Wilsons Boathouse Seafood Restaurant we went ....
Overall I think that it was a good choice - I enjoyed the night out and I think that this is a place that I would like to return to with family and friends. I particularly would like to to just go one day to the Oyster and Caviar Bar... accompanied by a few champers... Sounds like a GREAT Sunday afternoon!!!
Anyhow... Will try to provide some of my experiences:
Service
Bizarre. The woman (girl?) who attended to us was nice enough, although did not have a great command of the english language - think simple country girl - dumped in the city. The comment about the oyster shooters was hilarious when she tried to describe the Exotic coconut shooters with the desciptive of "brown stuff". GOLD!
Food
Abosolutely Brilliant. It's been a while since I had such lovely seafood.... FRESH! Just yum yum yum and more yum! The dessert menu left a bit to be desired though - we skipped out on that.
This is a complimentary Scallop dish that we were given - which was a scallop on top of a salsa with proscuitto. YUM!
For entree we shared some shooters - which had the old favourate Bloody Mary, as well a Coriander (coconut milk curry-like) flavour and a french lemonade (sour mix and french champagne).
For mains we decided on platters. Mine was all cold - King Neptune’s Platter - which included sand crab, Fraser Island prawns, Balmain bugs, shucked oyster (they weren't shucked), smoked salmon (to die for).
Andrew got the hot & cold variation which included less of the cold stuff and also had salt & pepper calamari, beer batter whiting and prawn cutlets.
Ambience
The "romantic" corner we were placed in was a bit drafty and dull.... Not very romantic at... But on reflection, I don't know if this is a restaurant that is romantic .. So we would have been better placed where we had a view of the comings and goings... In the thick(er) of things.
So overall maybe a 3.5 outa 5 meal...
