Noobie Foodie│ Fratelli Fresh Valentines Special

This is an extremely belated post – ONE MONTH LATE! But to celebrate Valentine’s Day my best friend/wifey/hubby and I went to have dinner at Fratelli Fresh in Wynyard because we were both sick of eating Asian food none stop and wanted to try something different!

The sad thing is we didn’t really eat all that much because I was leaving to Bali and I didn’t want to look bloated in the pictures. It’s ok because it gives us another reason to go out and eat there again!

So here comes the food:

SALAD

MOAR SALAD!! 

This is the Smoke Trout salad with Radicchio, green beans and dill mayo. I’ll be honest it’s really hard for me to be very excited about salad and one month ago I was really terrible with my DSLR (aka. Couldn’t take a photo to save my life) so excuse the photos! But the salad itself was delicious! The smoked trout added a salty flavour which balanced well with the dill mayo. THE EGGS WERE AMAZING! This is one they are one of my favourite foods! EGGS!!

Also I found out radicchio is the name of the purple cabbage I’ve been calling purple cabbage my whole life! *mind blown* Thank you Sensei Google.

Rigatoni

MOAR rigatoni! 

Then we had the Lamb Ragu with rosemary, chilli and Rigatoni! I absolutely love pasta and this was definitely a hearty and filling pasta dish. The lamb didn’t have an overwhelming flavour which I liked but the chilli definitely isn’t like Asian chilli – there was no burn! This is a great dish for winter/autumn days when it’s a good idea to store some extra insulation!

GELATTOOO!!! :D 

Finally we had a small dessert (cause we ended up going drinking after HAHA) and we just shared a scoop of gelato! IT WAS A TINY SCOOP!! I really wish they were more generous with the scoop sizes! 

Clickey to read the REVIEW and extras:

Food Bucket List - Sydney Edition

Because I have a memory of a gold fish literally and I keep forgetting about places that I want to eat at I decided to do an entire blog post about them (and there is soo many)! If anyone has any other recommendations PLEASE let me know! I shall add them to the list!

When I get to visit these places I shall cross them off :)

1. Cafe Style/Lunch: 

• Oliver Brown
• Three Beans 
• Kanzi (try the food)
• Barmuda (for the mocha)
• Mary Street Cafe 
• MSM Chatswood 
• Orto Trading Co 
• Bourke Street Bakery
• Element 6
• Le monde 
• Earth to Table
• The Grounds Alexandria
• Clipper Cafe (again)
• Lyons R.A.W
• Excelsior Jones 
• Kitchen by Mike
• Cafe Sopra 
• Espress Organica 
• Three Williams Cafe 
• Bondi Wholefoods
• Suveran at Bondi 
• Dough Collective 
• Black Star Pastry and Cafe 
• The Paramount Coffee Project 
• The Copper Mill 
• Brickfields 
• Four Ate Five 
• Bread and Circus 
• Central Baking Depot 
• Cabrito Coffee Traders 
• Pablo and Rusty's 
• Marlowe's Way 
• Mecca Espresso 
• Ampersand Cafe and Bookstore 
• The Wedge Espresso 
• Bion Societe 
• Sappho Books, Cafe and Wine Bar
• White Rabbit Gallery tea house  
• Cafe Shenkin 
• Pharmacy Cafe 
• Reuben Hills
• Toby's Estate - Near Uni!
• Blue Bird
• Watts On Crown 
• Greenheart Espresso
• Bootsdarling
• 212 Blu
• The Stables Cafe  
• Three Blue ducks 
• MCA Cafe 
• Pottery Green Baker 
• Two Good Eggs 
• The Chalkboard Cafe 
• The Bitton Cafe 
• Brown Sugar 
• Kepos Street Kitchen
• Gnome (Part of BREWTOWN NEWTOWN!)  
• Cornersmith Cafe 
• Pilgrim - WHY SO FAR! 
• The Annex 
• T2 Cafe 
• Pain De Sucre 
• Little Marionette 
• Luxe Bakery 
• La Renaissance 
• Rustic Pearl  
• Mad Spuds 
• Tea +
• Autolyse Sydney
• Lid and Jar 
• Circa Espresso
• Wedge Espresso 
• Three Ropes Espresso
• Palomino Espresso
• Baker Bros 

2. Restaurants:

• Flying Fish
• Soda Factory
• Azuma (for the meal)
• Pastizzi Cafe 
• Chur Burger 
• Gastro Park 
• Meat and Wine Co
• Rockpool 
• The Little Snail 
• Miss Peaches 
• The Rook
• Good God 
• The Cuban Place 
• Nishiki 
• Koh-Ya 
• Pappa Rich 
• Ryotei Ramen 
• Cipro 
• Mr Wong 
• QT 
• Est. 
• Sepia 
• Quay 
• Yulli's 
• MEXICO 
• The Burger Joint 
• Buns and BAlls 
• Beijing Alley 
• Bishop Sessa
• Yuki's  
• Hot Star Fried Chicken 
• Cochin Restaurant 
• House of Crabs 
• Cafe Sydney 
• Bavarian Bier Cafe 
• Baroque Pantry 
• Khao Pla 
• Ramen Ikkyu 
• The French House 
• Coco Cubano 
• Youeni FoodStore 
• Movida 
• Tapavino 
• Ms G's 
• Lentil As Anything Sydney
• Alpha Restaurant 
• Mejico  
• El Loco  
• Mr Crackles  
• Toko
• Beach Burrito Company
• Nomad
• Jazz City Milk Bar 

3. Desserts: 

• Kurtosh (again) 
• Bills - for their pancakes AND food but mainly pancakes 
• Bay Vista Gateau 
• Mak Mak Macarons
• Café Cre Asion  
• The Sweet Spot 
• Sweetness 
• Lorraine's Patisserie 
• Flour and Stone 
• Anita Gelato 

4. Bars:

• Mary's 
• The Lobo Pantation
• The Wild Rover  
• Tio's 
• The Barber Shop 
• Grasshopper Bar 
• Newtown Hotel 
• The Argyle 
• Glass Wine Bar
• Uncle Ming's 
• Lil Darling 

5. SPECIAL:

• Belly Bao
• Sydney Food trucks  - Veggie Patch Van 

All the places in this list I want to try as well:

http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/restaurants/features/13101/top-5-coffee-in-the-cbd

If only I had a faster metabolism...

It'd be like this nomnom-ing every day!

♥ Lingfish

Re: Angie and Jason's wedding ♥

<3 

On the 9th of November I attended Angie and Jason's wedding with the ceremony at Column Garden in Centennial Park and then reception at L'Aqua! :)

It was such an awesome day plus night! The ceremony started late due to some traffic which I was really grateful for since I was running late also due to traffic on the road.
Damn it city traffic!   Once the beautiful bride arrived and  the ceremony was under way it felt like a fairy tale wedding, the park was filled with white cute seats and pretty pink and white flowers! (I LOVE FLOWERS!)

the happy couple saying vows :)

FLOWERS <3

Imagine just imagine saying your vows here! Fairy tale right? 

And of course the vows were very moving - the interesting fact was the couple are both gamers so the ceremony music was game music
which I totally didn't recognise. But I thought that was a really sweet and personalised touch! :) THE DRESS is amazing! Angie looked like Disney Princess or something along those lines! And they both had a glowing happiness and about them that almost make me believe that Happily Ever After is real!

After the ceremony it was very short wait until the reception in the amazing L'Aqua. The view of Darling Harbour was stunning but due to my still noob photography skills I didn't take any photos! So I shall share some of other people's photos instead!
Hehehe 

  

Darling Harbour 

L'aqua <3

Looks amazing right? :) 

Once we arrived at the ceremony there were canapes being served (DELICIOUS) and then wine, champagne, juice, water and other drinks served on platters available for everyone! Plus the out side was decorated with the same flowers as the ceremony which was definitely a consistency I liked. 

MOAR FLOWERS!

CAGES OHH

I wanted to take these home for my room! They are such pretty roses!

Then we were seated in to the room for dinner - the decoration were soooo pretty! The center pieces were more flowers or cages! Definitely different to any other weddings I've been to! And not to mention there were two adorable teddy bear couple left on each person's seat as a present for the guests :3 too cute! The boy bear was my date for the evening!

Me and my date for the wedding TEEHEE! 

Now to the high light - FOOD! Overall it was definitely veryvery good and there were two options which is bad for me because I always preferred the other option to the one I received
but that's just a bad habit I have!    For more photos and THE DINNER click :)