It’s been a nutter of a weekend. The blog had some server-side issues and was down for what felt like forever. At the same time my broadband at home got capped (I saw that one coming!) and I haven’t realised how terribly SLOW capped speeds are. Incredibly frustrating; and thank God for mobile 3G! Vowing to stay away from cap limits from this day forward.
The boy called after work on Friday night and I went into the city to catch up for some staffies. Yeah, okay, I did need a drink but thought it would be an early one for sure because I have not been sleeping more than 5 hours the whole week! When I left home at midnight I was actually ready to sleep. Instead of jumping into my PJs, I jumped into my jeans instead. Bad move! One drink turned to too many and at 5:40am, finally got home and crashed out before waking up at 9am to make a groggy phone call. Did not make it to the Pyrmont markets, or to the Biennale, or even out of bed before 2pm and a double quarter pounder with cheese saved me from hangover hell. Felt like a total waste of a Saturday afternoon and I’m sure my friends aren’t too happy at the last minute cancellations but ah, I haven’t had a Jager bomb in an age and we all know Jager bombs makes you crazily intent on Netherlands-Brazil footie matches, especially of the World Cup variety.
Also, best Bloody Marys in Sydney (very possible, since I’ve not tasted better):
These babies can be found at Shady Pines. LOVE! Though, they may be taking it off the menu soon as they run a dash of beet through it and beet sure messes up the juicer! Not good when you juice everything fresh at the bar (win!) but thankfully the boy also makes a good Bloody Mary. Especially good making up your daily serves and fruit and veg methinks.
On Friday we made a date to drop by Zeta Bar at the Hilton Sydney. For summer they have a cryogenic sorbet and cocktail bar happening on the terrace where you can get cocktails in sorbet form, champagne ice blocks and nitro puffs. It’s always nice when something exciting happens in the bar scene here! I’ve always liked the drinks menu at Zeta, they have some pretty interesting things on their exhaustive list like this classic:
Raspberry mule
It was served ‘deconstructed’ on a platter with candied ginger. Yummy!
Smoked bacon manhattans
This is one of their infusion cocktails. Tastes a lot better than it sounds, but doesn’t it look delicious? The bacon flavour wasn’t overpowering and the strip of bacon was delicious to nibble on. I love bacon! This was the main reason I wanted to go to Zeta after reading a tweet about it..
They had something else called La Premiere and is meant to be a cocktail (ha) of popcorn flavours in a glass. Something to try the next visit I guess.
Nitro puffs
Inspired by Heston Blumenthal’s crazy take on nouveau gastronomy (read: molecular manipulation), this is meant to be a cocktail in a puff. It was dispensed from a canister like whipped cream and spooned into this bowl of liquid nitrogen until it freezes solid. When you put it in your mouth it disappears in a cloud of white smoke bursting from your nostrils.. only drawback is that the surface of your tongue where it hits will be numb for a fair while from the sub zero temperatures. Tasty!
We also had some of the sorbets, I picked a negroni one which was fairly strong tasting in sorbet form. Would have loved to try more but due to the nature of alcoholic beverages there is only so much one can imbibe :)
Yup, definitely a happy bunny despite the rainy Friday evening!
