I love trying out new menus! 🙋🏼♀️🙆🏼♀️💁🏼♀️ And I was very excited to try the brand new menu recently at Chifley’s Bar and Grill, the fabulous steakhouse and bar located in the gorgeous Hotel Kurrajong 🍽
The new menu has been designed to bring the best of Australian cuisine with a refreshing twist for summer, as well as a focus on seasonal produce ☀️
But first… drinks! 🍸 The beverages menu is vast with several pages of each kind of spirit, wine, beer – basically everything you could ask for, including local producers.
We went with Underground Spirits shiraz and pepper-berry gin and The Canberra Distillery blood orange gin to start. They went down very nicely with our starter of fried loligo squid, which was just the right amount of crispy in a lovely light batter with fresh chilli and aioli 🌶 🦑
Then for mains we had the perfectly cooked 300gm Riverina Sirloin (angus, MSA 3, grain fed) with delicious big fresh grilled king prawns in garlic cream sauce, chef’s special truffle scented cannelloni bean purée, seasonal vegetables and our choice of sauce (béarnaise) 🥩 🥕🍤 and the amazing twice cooked pork belly with rhubarb and pear compote and port wine glaze 🍐😍
The dishes were complimented beautifully by the Philip Shaw Wines merlot and Long Rail Gully riesling 🍷 and we couldn’t go past a side a beer battered onion rings 😍 It was also super special to meet the amazing chef behind the menu @saju_rajappan and learn all about his favourite dishes 👨🍳
And despite having very full and satisfied tummies, we just couldn’t resist dessert #obvi 🤷♀️ We went with the Belgian chocolate mousse with fresh raspberries and the lemon-lime cheesecake with berry compote 🍫🍋 🍰 🍓
Everything we ate was SO delicious, with all the meals so perfectly balanced with their accompaniments. Thank you so much for having me – we can’t wait to come back again! ❤️
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