Cafe Sopra @ Fratelli Fresh

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I visited this cafe with MKBJ in Nov 08 by recommendation of eatability! The food was amazing, we were blown away by everything tt we ordered! The atmosphere was really rustic and comfortable for a long lazy lunch. It is located on Danks St in Waterloo, only just a few steps from Hillsong church (my favour-dest church!). They have a branch in Potts Point too, but the waterloo atmosphere is so much better and peaceful. Cafe Sopra is a cafe that is attached to Fratelli fresh which is a grocery store with emphasis on fresh food and italian groceries. Check out the groceries even if you dont feel cafe, so interesting! anyways here's wat we devoured!!!

Menu for Cafe Sopra


ENTREE: We had the Cured Meat Platter which was simple yet sublime... It had 4 cuts of fresh cured meat namely pancetta, prosciutto, smoked ham and salami and topped with lemon juice. The flavours of each meat was so distinct thought all made from pork. yummy...

MAIN : We had the panfried SARDINE BUSCHETTA topped with pesto. Lovely!!! The simple bruschetta had been turned into this! The panfried sardine melted i ur mouth and the sourdough at the bottom of the dish was soaked with the tomato puree and juices of the fish. Even guys who only eat meat would give way.

DESSERT: We were really full after mains but as the galz say 'therez always space for dessert' (personally i tink tt we subconsioucly dnt finish our mains so we can save space for dessert, but WHO CARES!) We had simple strawberry and lemon gelato for dessert! It was OUT OF THIS WORLD! Even marv who's not a sorbet fan was converted!




Below are a few pics of the marvin looking like a lost sheep in the grocery stall:





For u pple who like the natural taste of fresh produce, shopping for fresh produce, or a long lazy lunch, I highly recommend this pl!

Bagan - Burmese cuisine

This wkend was a GASTRONOMIC wkend! After not going down to the city for food for almost a month, my greed knew no bounds. Surprisingly the first thing we did when we reached the city was not EAT ^_* talk about self-control! My mama will be really proud of me :)

Without a doubt, eating was the secong thing we did. We went to our all time favorite korean restaurant MADANG hidden in a little alley off pitt street. Unfortunately we were starvin by the time we got there so i forgot to take any pics. paiseh paiseh, next time i will.



Anyway the second place we went was a BURMESE restaurant called BAGAN in Strathfield. Special thanks to Charismatic and Andre Lam who brought us there. Dont mean to brag but it's the ONE AND ONLY BURMESE RESTAURANT in SYDNEY!!! I was ashamed of myself, how could I , the food connoiseur, not know about after 6 yrs in sydney????

Erm... I 'm sure most of us have no idea watsoever about burmese food. Well, according to wikipedia Burmese cuisine if influenced by chinese,thai and indian cuisine. The dishes usually do not contain pork or beef as avoided by the muslims and buddhist respectively. For more info, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_Burma.

Dishes ordered:
1) BAGAN CHICKEN
2) DURIAN SHAKE
3) GOAT CURRY
4) Burmese fried rice
5) Sweet, sour, spicy fish
6) stirfry kang kung

BAGAN CHICKEN

Personally, I recommend the BAGAN chicken which was deep fried chicken coated in a thin batter and fried with a sweet, sour, savoury, spicy flavor. It was a explosion of flavors in the mouth. The chicken was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Apparently the spiceness is not for the faint hearted, so being "chicken" we ordered it with 'less spice'

The goat curry is another dish that I highly recommend to pple who like eating lamb/mutton. It is like a in between of rendang and curry. The goat is cut in bitesize cubes and it melts in ur mouth...

Last but not least is the ULTIMATE DURIAN SHAKE! Only one word...SHIOK! On the first mouthful I felt like I was back in Geylang in Singapore. On the second mouthful I imagined myself in Malaysia for holiday. On the third mouthful I felt like I was on the roadsides of thailand. For those that dnt knw, durian in South east asia comes mainly from malaysia and thailand.


Kevin's expression says it all

Try it out and give me your comments!