Beautiful Food!

Barossa situated at the Esplanade might scream out to many of my readers as "TOURIST TRAP!" Or "Isn't Barossa in Australia?" And "Eeek!" (Include your own fake noises.)

It is my duty in my job to look busy, so often what I do is go for "meetings," and talk about work and I like to do that over a meal because I want to be critiqued on my non verbal communication during meeting skills. So my critic decided to go to the Esplanade, much to my chagrin and regret, I gave in.

I am sorry readers. I caved. I was astounded by the lunch menu because only a set lunch was available, and the other dishes sounded suspiciously bad. I wanted a theme for the meal and I decided on fish.(This reminds me of the time that I had a soup theme during a dinner with the wife and all I ordered was the soup of the day and the bouillabaisse, but that's another review all together!) I ordered a smoke salmon salad with rocket leaves and grapefruit, fish and chips and a surprise dessert.

The food took a long time to come out and my coke was beginning to taste extremely flat and Pepsi like. I gobbled up the salad (before I remembered I had to take a picture), and when the fish and chips finally swam to my table. I was aghast. Such beauty! On my favorite platter! A wooden plank. So rustic! So, how you say, western?!?

Flat. Fish and Chips were flat.

And my surprise dessert? A freaking huge baked Alaska. Now, don't get me wrong. I didn't know you could see Australia from Alaska but somebody was playing a joke on me. There were 2 of us and only 1 dessert came. What if I didn't really like the person I was having lunch with? Would I really want to share a dessert together with that person? Thank goodness, the Baked Alaska had too much whipped cream for my liking and the ice cream could not be found. I dug furiously but only found a bridge to nowhere.

The food was beautiful. Pity the taste.