May get together at Mead's Mosman Bay

Every so often my lil group of high school gals like to go out for a nice dinner and lots of yakking. Because it was Miss A's birthday recently and we havent had the chance to catch up yet, we thought we should celebrate in good taste...heheh ....excuse the pun :o).

We went to Meads in mosman bay (which i absent mindedly kept referring to as matilda bay and confusing everyone but myself) which has quite a reputation for being a "swanky" place. It is a gorgeous place, tucked away on the jetty/foreshore of Mosman Park suburb. For entrees we all decided to have oysters to share, there was the tradional options : au naturale, kilpatrick and some interesting combinations of mirin, soy sauce and wasabi (no thanks). But the winning favourite for our group was the pancetta, honey and red wine vinegar. Similar flavours to the traditional kilpatrick, but the hint of honey in it is YUMMY! (i could have had all 12 to myself!!)

For drinks i ordered a french martini consisting of pineapple, vodka and ??? and in the background is miss S's drink - a kamikaze

this was my mains, half a crayfish ($37.50 or whole for $65.00) with some chilli prawns. This was VERY good, the meat was so sweet and tender for the crayfish and the prawns were spicey. This was quite a small portion compared to the other options available, but i wanted to make sure i had enough room for desserts! definitely recommended!!

Miss S and her sirloin, which was a very generous serve and really yummy too. The beef was cooked to perfection and the sauce/gravy went very well together.

Miss A and her crispy skin salmon and tossed ceasar salad. The salmon was also very good, and another very large serving.

Miss C had a sirloin as well. Everyone struggled to finish their meals except for me (eating strategy). But it was all very good. The service was a little slow to start of with, we were virtually ignored for about 40 minutes, but once the ball started rolling it was defintely very good. We order dessert as well, but it got consumed before i remembered to take photos.

Yes the dessert was that good, i completely forgot to take photos.

All in all we had a great time, just catching up in general. hot topics of the night:

• my teaching stories ...eg. Yeh! Duff Man!!
• Miss C house purchase
• Miss S new beau (goodbye brandon!!)
• Miss A's new jacket very nice!!!

cant wait for the next get together....

bon apetite! clio