Nick's Seafood Restaurant

31 March 2006, 16:10

you know those raffles at charity events and schools where you feel obliged to buy a coupla tickets knowing that you have a snowballs chance in hell in winning? my dad has this ability to win the 3rd prize which is usually dinner at a posh restaurant. and since most restaurants which give out these free meals arent chinese him and my mum drag me and noods along to ensure we eat their share of the food/moneys worth. which is a sweet deal for us becos it means free food and free transport haha

so our free dinner was at Nick’s Seafood Restaurant (the Promenade- Cockle Bay Wharf) and we were greeted with a very ditzy lady who couldnt read her own writing in the reservations book and then said im sorry let me TRY and find a table only for us to walk thru the restaurant and see that half the room was empty! we ordered drinks and waited. and waited. by the time the waiter came back our stomachs were growling!

for entree me and noods split the seafood chowder ($14.50) and they were nice enough to put it into 2 bowls for us.


“its CHOWDER! say it frenchie!” (haha gotta love simpsons) the seafood chowder was very yummy with chunks of fish floating around however i thought it couldve used a bit more of the seafood and less of the miscellaneous vegetables…

after me and noods had devoured the soup it took heaps long for the food to come and when the parentals dont get food they dont talk. its as if they have to concentrate to not let their stomachs eat themselves…

anyways my parentals got the seafood platter for two ($120)



how good does it look?! in the platter there was fresh cooked lobster, steamed mussels, fried calamari, fried fish, fresh cooked and tempura king prawns, blue swimmer crab, oysters, chips and for some reason avocado and rockmelon… the crab meat was so sweet! and the lobster was so fresh! and of course my dad kept plying noods with prawns…

i decided on the Vongole and Crab Meat Pasta with Parmesian, Tomato and Pesto Sauce ($27.50)

it took me so long to decide on what to eat… usually when me and noods go out to eat somewhere expensive we try not to order the same thing and i was really undecided between this and what noods got but im glad i chose this because i was COVERED in parmesian goodness! and i didnt know what vongoles were but apparently it was like a little clam? i like them much better than pippies which are a tad too chewy for me. and i have no idea where the pesto was but there was a whole mound of shredded crab meat thruout the pasta and i barely made it halfway!

noods orderd the Blue Eye Cod Fillet with Smoked Salmon and Shallot Crushed Potato Cake ($29.50)

the fish was nice and soft but it was battered and it just tasted like normal fish and chips but the potato cake was good with a nice crispy skin and warm potatoy innards

im afraid we didnt leave any room for dessert but me and noods will be back! maybe just for dessert! haha warm double chocolate pudding and sticky date pudding you have escaped my grasp but not for long!

1. heh thanks fer the free dinners! n how massive was yer pasta!

   — noods    Mar 31, 06:06 PM    #
   
   

2. Glad to see you enjoyed your pasta. Was the parmesan that pre-grated plasticky stuff or was it freshly grated?

   Seafood platter looks enormous. The addition of rockmelon is kinda weird!

   — AugustusGloop    Mar 31, 07:23 PM    #
   
   

3. (‘o’) platter for 2 aye? more like a whole family. ur pasta certainly does look pretty good. i agree, weird. although rockmelon does vaguely make sense. kinda refreshingish to balance the seafood. but buttery avocado?

   — amie    Mar 31, 09:39 PM    #
   
   

4. noods: too massive!
   
   AG: oh it was freshly grated and so very yummy! yeah the rockmelon was weird but we thought the avocado was weirder!
   
   amie: haha yeah needed huge appertite! yeah the avocado didnt go too well with the seafood

   — chocolatesuze    Apr 2, 05:06 PM    #
   
   

5. The avo reminded me of those 70s-style prawn and avocado cocktails. Seafood platters in general make me think of the 70s =)

   — AugustusGloop    Apr 5, 10:39 AM    #
   
   

6. AG: lol what there needs to be is a chocolate platter!

   — chocolatesuze    Apr 5, 05:27 PM    #