pork knuckle at lowenbrau, lenotre high tea at sofitel wentworth, fairy floss at luna park

17 July 2008, 01:51

last week in true food blogger style noods arranged a belated bday day in the city to eat and eat and eat.


we started off with lowenbrau home of the glorious pork knuckle ($29.50) with its kickass crackling and soft creamy mash and half a litre of mango beer. we ordered a pork knuckle each. because i dont share my pork crackle with anyone. heh.


a short 2 hours later after a wander thru the rocks markets and around the harbour we arrived at Sofitel Wentworth (61-101 Phillip St, Sydney) for the Lenotre high tea ($38). The Sofitel has become the first hotel in Australia to serve the patisserie brand Lenotre with Chef Patissier, Mark Stone the only chef in Australia to have the accredited certification.


coffee and tea is bottomless and the boy was fascinated by the hourglass timer that came with our tea set


and what a stand! it towered over us with its cute pink levels like stairs to a sweet cakey heaven =D


Cone au chocolat. when the lovely waitress brings it out our stand all eyes in the room are drawn immediately to the 2 cones perched high on the top tier and it is a sight to behold! almost identical in size to an icecream cone but instead of a waffle cone it is a dark chocolate cone filled with macerated strawberries and a very generous filling of cream mmm cream


Camaieu. a gorgeously soft cake with layers of chocolate sponge flavoured with marzipan in between layers of dark and milk chocolate mousse topped with ivory chantilly cream. i particularly liked the tiny curl of hazelnut and chomping into the rectangle of lenotre branded chocolate


Macaronades. hee hee giant macarons! with fresh raspberries and lemon curd. i love raspberries! i couldnt really taste the lemon curd but that was ok i dont think it really needed it. heh try eating this ‘delicately’ and it will explode over your lap


Ambiance. oh man thats the worst shot ive ever taken of cake argh so overexposed! i was getting a bit impatient and actually forgot to take a foto (the cake was actually double the size… this was half a portion size cos this foto was taken when i went back a second time with other ppl). anywhos. the ambiance was creamy and not too sweet with layers of vanilla bavarian cream with fruits of the forest jelly and caramelised hazelnuts.


Tarte au citron. the classic french lemon tart, sweet pastry filled with almond and lemon cream and topped with lemon meringue. thankfully the lemon curd filling wasnt too sour and went well with the crisp buttery tart


Opera. the gold standard of all cakes is the opera! chocolate pastry with layers of almond biscuit, decadent chocolate ganache with coffee butter cream and topped with gold leaf. seriously what is more luxurious than eating gold?


Finger sandwiches! ah i love thin rectangles of crust-less sandwiches! (cos you know crusts makes your hair go curly) my sandwich fillings were smoked salmon & rocket, cucumber & cream cheese, ham & cheese and egg


Fruit Scones! with a very generous serve of homemade jam and cream. we were so full that we had to leave a cake but were given a cute bright red box to take it away which was awfully nice of them. high tea is 2pm-5pm daily but make sure you have made a booking dudes!


and to end the day a walk to luna park for some fairy floss because i hadnt had enough sugar…

1. Hi, just wanted to ask if you ordered the tea for one or tea for two stands. I hear that there is a difference…

   — Jess    Oct 17, 11:09 PM    #
   
   

2. jess: you can get a stand for 1 person if youre worried about not finishing it but i reckon get the stand for 2 ppl. if youve got odd numbers like 3ppl they give you a 2person stand plus 1 smaller stand. same amount of cake but i think a bit more sandwiches on the smaller stand

   — chocolatesuze    Feb 5, 04:31 PM    #
   
   

3. i did a google on pork knuckle and ran into your blog. Nice site!!!

   — kevin    Jul 29, 01:08 PM    #