Casa Do Benfica
@chocolatesuze Incredible Portuguese food inside a tennis club #marrickville #casadobenefica #sydney #sydneyrestaurants #sydneyportuguesefood ♬ original sound – ChocolateSuze
I’m a little bored of Sydney restaurants at the moment, everything is just the same cookie cutter clone which is why I’m really enjoying visiting old school rsl club type of restaurants like Casa do Benfica serving Portuguese food and is located inside the Marrickville Hardcourt Tennis Club.
We start with vongole in a beautifully light lemon and mustard sauce, the clams are small but deliciously sweet.
We loved the grilled octopus which was perfectly tender with charred edges and then the garlic mushrooms which are incredibly fragrant and we absolutely had to mop up every last bit of the sauce with the free bread provided.
The beef skewer is impressively presented and is a perfect medium rare. It comes with a side salad and we chose the fried to order round-cut chips.
And finally the seafood rice which was super saucy and packed full of prawns, squid, mussels and swimmer crab.
For desserts we get the jiggly flan which is fine but we all loved the rustic looking chocolate mousse which tastes like our childhood.