@chocolatesuze Awesome truffle hunt and lunch experience #canberra #beltanafarm #truffle #trufflehunt ♬ original sound – ChocolateSuze

I absolutely hate winter but the one thing I look forward to every year is truffle season. I booked a truffle hunt at Beltana Farm in Canberra where the owner Alice, takes us through the farm which has more than 800 trees. Colin, a fellow farmer and truffle-dog trainer has brought Leroy, a border collie who is dying to get to work and unearth some truffles.

They explained the process of growing and finding truffles as we moved throughout the farm and we were encouraged to ask them any questions. When Leroy found a truffle, Colin would smell the soil before carefully digging and allowing us to get the glory of plucking the truffle from the ground.

We head back to the restaurant for our long lunch and get to see our truffle haul nice and clean and ready to be used in our meal.

We start off with some snacks, the truffle potato scallop is perfectly golden and crisp with a fluffy centre.

The cauliflower, truffle and Comte croquette is also a flavour sensation and the bbq celeriac skewer works so well with the truffle.

Next is a potato damper with macadamia truffle butter and the most beautiful truffle and cuttlefish salami.

The paper steamed john dory with fennel, leek and truffle smells absolutely incredible and the fish is perfectly tender. It came with a potato and truffle bake with truffle cream which was awesome but honestly I would’ve loved a bowl of rice to soak up all the juices.

For mains there was half a farm truffle roasted chicken which was incredibly tender, Jerusalem artichokes with an incredible truffle burnt butter sauce and farm leaves with a truffle vinaigrette.

Finally dessert was a truffle ice cream with a rich malt caramel and burnt white chocolate crumbs. It was a perfect end to an incredible experience.

@chocolatesuze Give me all the tteokbokki #dookki #sydney #worldsquare #sydneyrestaurant #sydneykoreanfood #tteokbokki ♬ original sound – ChocolateSuze

If you’re after a carb fest, Dookie has got you covered with all you can eat tteokbokki for $38 per person. There’s a DIY sauce station with suggested recipe combos and we’ve gone for 2 ladies of the creamy sauce with 1 ladle of the Busan spicy sauce.

And then onto the tteokbokki station where there’s rice cakes of all shapes and sizes, my fave were the cheese stuffed and also the alphabet shaped for the lols. Grab your meat, veg, noodles and anything else you want and away you go! You can also add a cheese fondue grill on top of your pot for an extra $10.

There’s also a fishcake station, ready to eat foods like sushi, noodles and fried chicken and also an entire wall of ramyeon in case you still haven’t had enough food. Dessert and soft drinks are also included.

@chocolatesuze Sunday roast #therocksbrewery #alexandria #sydney #sydneyrestaurant #sydneypub #sundayroast #porchetta ♬ original sound – ChocolateSuze

I love a Sunday roast and The Rocks Brewery in Alexandria now have 4 on the menu!

The roast porchetta is awesome, the pork is super juicy and it had the perfect crackle. It comes with a super cheesy cauliflower gratin, honey roasted carrots, peas and gravy and of course a Yorkshire pudding.

We also had to get the roast lamb which had a super generous amount of meat and was beautifully tender and comes with the same sides.

@chocolatesuze Perfect date night spot with over 60 different sake #newtown #ante #sydney #sydneyrestaurant #sake ♬ original sound – ChocolateSuze

If you’re looking for cozy date night ideas, I highly rate Ante in Newtown with a constantly changing menu and over 60 different types of sake.

The fried potato mochi with everything bagel sprinkles is a textural delight.

The roasted Jerusalem artichoke is beautifully tender and I loved the crunch of the walnuts with the finely shaved Comte.

The tagliatelle with fermented shiitake mushrooms is saucy and rich and hits all the umami checkboxes and the casarecce has a beautiful deep prawn flavour with a smack of heat from the kanzuri fermented chilli.

We ordered both of the desserts, the mandarin granita is incredibly refreshing and the warm sticky date pudding is drenched in a mirin caramel with a lovely yoghurt sorbet.