Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Lunch at Lotus, Potts Point

4 April 2011, 06:09


OH HAI! Look it’s a giant lollipop! How was your weekend dudes? Thanks for all your lovely comments, my stomach is indeed much better now and recovered just in time for the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Lunch at Lotus (22 Challis Avenue, Potts Point). The sold out lunch was so popular that there’s another lunch set for next week which um is also sold out and has a waiting list if you want to try your luck.


Entering the restaurant we are greeted with the sight of jars of candy alongside a tall cylinder filled with red liquid which was bubbling away and creating puffs of smoke thanks to the magic of dry ice. It’s alliiiiive!


The restaurant was transformed into a chocoholics dream world, there were hats covered in candy lining the walls eee Jaffas! Smarties! Chocolate bullets! We so excited!


Vases filled with marshmallows, gummy candy and chocolate bars made the lucky kids in the back room squeal with joy.


The one and only Dan Hong



We begin with the Russian Spyder which is Coke and ice cream for the kids… and vodka and Kahlua for the bigger kids :P


“Blueberry inspired by Violet Beauregarde” was sadly not a gumball haha I was really hoping for tomato soup and roast beef followed by a blueberry dessert which was what subsequently turned Violet into a giant blueberry. But the opening dessert was delicious, slightly tangy thanks to the apple consomme that was bubbly and fizzy and had all of us ooh and ahh when it was being poured around the perfectly shaped quennelle of blueberry sorbet. It also managed to turn our teeth, lips and tongue an extremely shocking shade of blue! We were all so sure that Dan was peeking out from some hidden window laughing as everyone in the whole room turned into mini blueberries.


Ice cream sandwich of awesome. Seriously it was just about the best ice cream sandwich I have ever eaten! Fudgy brownie biscuit sandwiching super smooth peach ice cream with slivers of strawberries in between and topped with a sprinkling of tart strawberry powder that we guiltily licked with our fingers. It made my heart bleed rainbows of joy.


‘Golden eggs’ aka LOOK AT DEM BALLS! See those 3 golden orbs hidden beneath the dehydrated chocolate mousse biscuit? Unsure of how to eat them I prodded the ball cautiously and ended up shoving a whole one in my mouth before biting down and squeaked in surprise when it exploded with a gush of mango liquid. Spherication surprise win! Loved the entertainment factor of watching the roasted white chocolate soup being poured at the table and then dipping the dehydrated chocolate mousse biscuit into it before my jaws masticated gleefully. Get your mind out of the gutter I said masTIcated!


Chocolate and Mandarin Surprise. Woohoo some chocolate and citrus action! We had been hoping pop rocks would make an appearance and appear it did! One spoonful and immediately the sounds of crackling and fizzing filled the air and we chortled with every pop and crunch. While the salt flecked dark chocolate gelato nearly pushed me over the edge into sugar coma territory, my spoon just couldn’t help but return and alternating between the light and fizzy mandarin foam and the sweet mandarin curd. I normally have issues with chocolate and citrus pairings in dessert but this was a knockout especially with the buttery biscuit crumbs.


Oompa Loompa ice cream sundae with Chocolate River. OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DOO! WOOOOOO POUR ME A CHOCOLATE RIVER!!!! Sugar high wheeeeeee!


Two small scoops of pandan ice cream were a lovely fluro shade of green and surprisingly refreshing, I was super glad it wasn’t mint ice cream cos you all know how I haz issues with mint. The river of chocolate was what turned me into a jittery 5 year old who can’t sit still and the chunks of crispy honeycomb pieces sure didn’t help the sugar high! Loved the chocolate chip cookie chunks and the salty pretzel and peanut nubbins scattered around with the mini marshmallows swirled in raspberry sauce.


But I finished it! See that mess? That was my state of mind after 5 courses of desserts.


WHEEEEEEEEEE!


Chocolate Suze attended the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lunch as a guest of Stellar* Concepts.

 

 

  1. That last photo is Gold! Pimpin’ the sugar haha

    — Lex    Apr 4, 06:19 AM    #

  2. ahhh im sooo jealous!!

    — Linzi    Apr 4, 07:09 AM    #

  3. Cute tights in the first pic.

    Sugar overload!

    — Fiona    Apr 4, 08:57 AM    #

  4. The candyman can cos hr mixes it with love and makes the worrrrld taste gooood! Yahoo! Looks like so much fun! Hope you got to keep the hat :)

    — shez    Apr 4, 09:05 AM    #

  5. oh my – talk about dying and going to chocolate heaven :)

    — Lisa    Apr 4, 09:40 AM    #

  6. Aww Suze you look purdy :) This looks like heaps of fun, I think even I would be sugar overloaded by this much dessert!

    — Steph    Apr 4, 09:50 AM    #

  7. Wheeeee sugahhhhhhh rawrrrr 0_o

    — FFichiban    Apr 4, 10:45 AM    #

  8. Loving your Candy Bling in that last shot! Crazy looking lunch there lol, hope you had something salty afterwards

    — Minh    Apr 4, 11:15 AM    #

  9. The way you described biting into the golden eggs almost had me squealing as well!

    — john@heneedsfood    Apr 4, 11:24 AM    #

  10. nice to see you there! omgg im still thinking about the chocolate ganache with pop rocks. and the blueberry was super awesome too!

    — sugarpuffi    Apr 4, 11:52 AM    #

  11. OMG this is so freaking awesome! I’m so jealous!

    — Phuoc'n Delicious    Apr 4, 12:11 PM    #

  12. Dessert coma!!!!!

    — Michelle Chin    Apr 4, 12:14 PM    #

  13. Colourful rainbows of sugar and rivers of chocolate!

    — mademoiselle delicieuse    Apr 4, 12:18 PM    #

  14. I LOVE love love this post !!!
    All the chocolates and sweets looks absolutely fabulous ~~ and the colourful costumes add that extra touch of Fun :)
    P.s. your outfit is tres chic
    xox*

    — Food Fashion Victim *    Apr 4, 12:23 PM    #

  15. This looks like so much fun! Love the Smarties hat hehe

    — Karen (missklicious)    Apr 4, 12:28 PM    #

  16. wow – this looks like heaps of fun! i’d be in a sweets coma though! hmhmhm pandan icecream… LOVE!

    — Gastronomous_A    Apr 4, 12:34 PM    #

  17. oh, i’d still be in a sugar coma.

    — Laura    Apr 4, 12:41 PM    #

  18. That is a lot of desserts, how gorgeous do they all look!

    — sara @ Belly Rumbles    Apr 4, 01:24 PM    #

  19. looks amazing! Totally jel jel. glad to hear you recovered just in time, shame you missed the friday night but I’m sure there will be other times!

    — Gastronomy Gal    Apr 4, 01:41 PM    #

  20. So cool! Now I’ve got the Oompa Loompa song in my friggin’ head. Not so cool.

    — joey@FoodiePop    Apr 4, 02:01 PM    #

  21. That ice cream sandwich makes me regret not booking this one :(

    — Dumpling Girl    Apr 4, 02:15 PM    #

  22. haha so much sugar but all the dishes look awesome, especially the mango puree eggs which sound amazing! eeee so much candy!

    — Jacq    Apr 4, 02:27 PM    #

  23. Haha looked like so much fun with amazing desserts!

    — Rhonda (The Dainty Baker)    Apr 4, 02:29 PM    #

  24. So much sugarrr… thank heavens for deep fried salmon skin eh? lol

    — Helen (grabyourfork)    Apr 4, 02:29 PM    #

  25. So much candy-bright, sugar-laced fun! Willy Wonka should be remade with Dan Hong! Thanks for a great post.

    — Lee Tran Lam    Apr 4, 03:31 PM    #

  26. ‘bleed rainbows of joy’

    mwhaha, i love it!

    — BonniesCouncel    Apr 4, 03:44 PM    #

  27. OMG! yum! so wish I could go to one of these. Do you know if they plan on having any more?

    — Erin@TheFoodMentalist    Apr 4, 04:04 PM    #

  28. wow I don’t know how you can eat all those desserts! they all look amazing

    — Susan    Apr 4, 04:57 PM    #

  29. I don’t know how you managed to eat all that sweet stuff without exploding!!! Could see Violet and the Ooopa Lumpas as I was following your adventure in Willy Wonka Land!! I would die for one of those Golden Eggs!!!

    — Cate    Apr 4, 05:17 PM    #

  30. I feel a sugar rush and tooth ache just from reading this! I couldn’t possibly handle so much sugar

    — Tina@foodboozeshoes    Apr 4, 05:47 PM    #

  31. looks damn yummy!

    — nadnut    Apr 4, 06:12 PM    #

  32. So much sugar! You must still be bouncing off the walls. Looks like loads of fun though.

    — Miss Piggy    Apr 4, 07:05 PM    #

  33. You wore a dress!!!

    — Edwina Storie    Apr 4, 09:12 PM    #

  34. thanks for the heads up on the dishes. i look forward to trying it at the second session :-)

    — Simon Food Favourites    Apr 4, 10:17 PM    #

  35. haha great seeing you there. Love that mandarin fizz!

    — Julie    Apr 4, 10:39 PM    #

  36. Wheee! You must have been in sugar-coated heaven!

    — OohLookBel    Apr 4, 10:58 PM    #

  37. Spherication surprise win! Love it!!!!

    I’ve got a sugar headache just from reading this post – a heart-fluttering, jealousy-filled, chocolate-coated sugar headache.

    — Lizzie (El Moorish)    Apr 5, 11:01 AM    #

  38. This looks bloody incredible! Excuse the language but I’m VERY excited by a 5-course dessert meal! ;)

    — Chanel    Apr 5, 07:27 PM    #

  39. SUPER FUN! The giant lollypop has nuthin on your lollypop wedding bouquet though ;)

    — catty    Apr 6, 12:44 AM    #

  40. that looks like so much fun! the ice cream sandwich looks perfect…

    — Melissa    Apr 6, 10:05 PM    #

  41. Squee!! I, like every kid surely in existence, read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory over and over, wishing it were real. And now it is! Or was! And I’m happy even though I didn’t get to eat it! Yay!

    — Hannah    Apr 6, 11:40 PM    #

  42. OMG i hope they host another event like this!! Looks delish!!

    — Eesh    Apr 8, 01:02 AM    #

  43. I love your dress, I love the candy and I love the look of all the dishes!

    — Daphne    Apr 10, 08:58 AM    #

  44. Ahhh this looks so fantastic and yummy. Is there a certain website where you can find out about these certain events?

    — Ange    Apr 12, 12:43 AM    #

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