Rocks Brewing Company, Alexandria
MY PRECIOUSSSSS!!! There’s just something about a big honking piece of meat that gets me all excited. Pair the meat with some tasty beverages and you’ve got yourself one happy camper.
Since we moved into the city, I’m absolutely loving how much closer everything is! The Rocks Brewing Company (160 Bourke Rd, Alexandria) has been on my hit list for a while now but I’d always been deterred in getting there but I managed to convince the boy that there would be meat and alcohol and boom!
We timed our first visit so we’d make the tail end of breakfast to order the ricotta hotcakes I’d heard so much about but ALAS they’d run out of ricotta! Instead I order the Rocks Scrambled Eggs ($15), fluffy scrambled eggs are folded through with tomato, feta, chilli oil and bacon on sourdough toast.
Noods has ordered the Eggs Benedict with Conviction ($16) and I am immediately green with envy at the sight of the golden hash brown under crispy smoked bacon, wilted spinach, poached eggs and blanketed in rich hollandaise. I send sad looks at Noods until he relents and switches plates.
By the time we’d finished brekkie we thought it was a respectable hour to try some of their beers 😛
Tasting paddles are pretty good value with 5 samples for $10. I liked the Drunken Monk, a smooth Belgian golden ale with a crazy high alcohol content of 8.2% zomg so easy to drink though!
We’d planned our next visit to coincide with Australia Day so we could bring our Malaysian rellies (HI UNCLE KEN AND MOON YEE!!!) to check out a good ol lamb on a spit mmm that lamb smelled so good!
The Lamb Rolls ($6 each) were awesome and stuffed with a generous amount of tender lamb. There was a choice of tomato sauce, bbq or gravy so we got one with each but the gravy was hands down the favourite and I would’ve happily drowned anything and everything in that beautiful rich gravy.
The special of the day was the 1.4kg Cape Byron Tomahawk Steak ($55) and it is a thing of beauty, charred on the edges but a perfect medium rare centre. It came with crunchilicious roasted potato wedges, a splodge of semi dried tomato and mushroom sauce. It was tasty with a capital T and didn’t really need the mushroom sauce because DAYUM dat steak! Juicy max!
There was a vote for some kind of salad to even out the meat overload so we ordered the Fig and Prosciutto Salad ($18) which was deeeelicious and had the perfect balance of flavours. There was enough gorgonzola to satisfy my cheese needs but not too much that it killed everything else it touched and the combo of prosciutto and figs is always a winner. Oh and there was roasted hazelnuts which were awesome.
It was a pretty wet day and because I was craving something spicy we ordered the Spicy Hot Wings ($12.50), southern fried chicken wings tossed in Louisiana hot sauce. Surprisingly they weren’t actually that hot and sent my tastebuds a light tingle instead.
I had high hopes for the Smoked Beef Brisket Sandwich ($18) and it did not disappoint. I mean, LOOK AT IT! It’s just so gosh darn BEEYOOTIFUL! The bread roll was lightly toasted and jam packed with fat slices of melt in the mouth brisket, grilled onions, Rocks BBQ sauce and smothered in melty cheese. Oh and waffle fries on the side! Seriously, that was was mighty fine sandwich!
We ordered Smoked Pork and Fennel Sausages ($16) with mashed potato, caramelised onion and gravy which the nieces devoured in record time.
And the Convict Lager Battered Fish & Chips ($17) which were golden and perfect with a super light batter.
The Rocks Brewing Company is just down the road from The Grounds but with plenty of parking and a pretty top notch menu. The brewery supplies their beer to Hart’s Pub and the Lord Raglan and there’s also brewery tours for $20 (includes beer tasting). I’ll def be back for that brisket sandwich!
Rocks Brewing Company
160 Bourke Rd,
Alexandria
Trading Hours:
Mon – Sun: 7:30am – 10pm
