UPDATE: Restaurant has closed down
It was a Wednesday. Cold and windy in the middle of spring...that's Canberra for you. For the most bizarre factors, you can experience four seasons in one day.You can have destructive hails in April, snow in November...but never a hot day in the middle of winter. Anyways, if it wasn't for the free movie and Gummy's enthusiasm i would have probably stayed home drinking tea, fb-ing, msn-ing, etc...The movie was at Manuka's Greater Union ('An Education'), so we decided to meet up early and walk around Manuka (since G has never been there before). We went into 'The Wine and Cheese Providore' and guess what i saw immediately? Snow Bear biscuits (from UK)! I regret not buying them, but now i know where to get them. This place is packed with gourmet goodies, a big variety of cheese, freshly baked bread and it has a small cafe inside as well. I would describe the place as being a gourmet shop with a small cafe corner...if that makes sense. Must try next time!
We kept on walking around and around and we finally decided to sit down and have a cup of hot drinks in Blakstone Restaurant & Bar. 1) It was too cold to keep on walking 2) our eyes were caught in a sign saying 'Wednesday Special - 2 for 1 pizza $19.95'
Blakstone has a sophisticated and pleasant decor with black, white and red as their theme colours. The staff is very friendly and nice! *thumbs up
To start with, we ordered some hot drinks since the kitchen wasn't opened yet. To our surprise, the hot chocolate drinks came with pistachio & cherry nougat as an accompliment. Wonder why...maybe they felt bad for not having marshmallows...since G requested some.
Hot Chocolate $4.00
After the drinks, we ordered the pizzas (thin crust)! I got the Pesto pizza and G got the Chorizo one, i quite liked the roasted butternut pumpkin on my pizza! Chorizo pizza was nice too, sadly the amount of chorizo wasn't a lot but it was compensated by the prawns!
Pesto Pizza - Roasted butternut pumpkin with baby spinach, cashews & basil pesto
Chorizo Pizza - Spicy chorizo sausage w’ prawns, caramelised onion & watercress salad
I'm glad for how the day had turned out, despite the cold weather! It was totally worth dragging myself out of bed =)
6 snowdrop meringues:
that's a really nice restaurant.
good food too.
always on the lookout for good thin-crust pizzas. Thanks for the tip!
Mimi:
legal te ver aki...pelo menos eu sei que a minha maninha visita hein!!! faz um blog aih..eu tb quero ver uns lugares bons aih em Montreal :D
Helena: i like thin crust pizzas...they don't feel greassssssy...
the service was awesome!
i really miss the pumpkin one :( and the friendly/cute waiter! muahaha
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