This weekend past, Mr. LL & I spent a long weekend in the Yarra Valley. It was amazing and I now want to move there, (until Summer, when I will want to move down to the coast. Rinse. Repeat), but this place was one of the food highlights;
We had lunch here yesterday. I'm not sure if it's Giant Steps or Innocent Bystander - maybe their web site will clarify. Whatever the name, we had lunch there yesterday and were super pleasantly surprised.
Open 7 days or not, I doubt you'll get a quiet day. It was Monday when we were there, freezing, raining and about 3pm. The place was packed. We had to share a table with another guest because there was no where else to sit and everyone was ordering pizza. We are rebels so we didn't order pizza. We didn't regret it, but we did contemplate buying it to take home for dinner because other people's looked so damn good.
They had so much Moscato advertising up and so many Moscato products, (like Moscato sorbet). I hate, OK that's mean - strongly dislike Moscato, so I didn't try any, but if any of the other things we tasted there are anything to go by, I'm sure it's a good Moscato as far as Moscato goes.
I did not drink this, but Mr. LL had the Giant Steps Merlot with his meal. He loved it, so I tasted it and I loved it. Have I mentioned that I love wine? Hi, I'm Natalie, and when everyone was drinking cruisers at a house party circa 2002, I was at home with my parents enjoying a glass of Cabernet.
This is what I had for lunch. It was, AMAZING. I went on about this so much at the table that I Mr. LL was embarassed and the table next to me was looking sideways. It was called fried polenta with cauliflower, or something lame like that that doesn't do the taste justice. It was nuts. I want to recreate it. There were currants and onion and pine nuts and AMAZING THINGS. I'm sorry, I'll stop, just trust me.
Mr. LL got a duck pie. He loved it, I liked the carrot mash. Mr. LL usually finds something wrong with every thing he eats, but there were no complaints on this dish.
