anniversary dinner at rockpool bar and grill

it was our 6th wedding anniversary earlier this year and as a VERY special treat we decided to go to rockpool bar and grill burswood as a special treat to us. the restaurant only just opened late january and was an instant hit with all the perth food bloggers and locals. this restaurant is fully booked on the weekends for the next few months

anyways, sped me put these photos in reverse order - and i cant be bothered to do it properly
so here is our night in REVERSE order...

1. on the way out we bumped into neil perry and i had to have my photo taken with him :D
im just a sucker for celebrities.... hehehe....
[this is a really bad foto of me... makes me look like i am pregnant but im NOT! wish i was..]

our dessert a dark chocolate tart with strawberries and balsamic vinegar ice cream
the ice cream had very light balasamic vinegar flavours but went very well with the rest of the dessert
i liked the ice cream the most

hubby's medium steak - very delicious and tender, meat just melts in your mouth
i think it was a rib eye on the bone, the steaks had a delicious smoky bbq flavour to it
and you have a choice of sauces to go with your steak [mustard, hollandaise, mushrooms etc]
all the steaks here are aged to perserve their flavour and tenderise the meat
i definitely recommend the steaks here, this is what their specialty is

my dinner choice was a little different
i saw that they served tripe and i like tripe
and its unusual for western style restaurants to serve tripe and the curious side of me wanted to know how they would serve it up and how it would taste. the tripe was nice, and they gave me a huge serving of it, it was tender and tomato saucey with other herbs put in too.
i would probably order something else next time - like a steak :oD

the other dishes you below are our side dishes
we had onion rings - absolutely delicious $9
cauliflower cheese - ok, more cheese would have been good $12

my entree - yabbie with cucumber & zuchini salsa

we had a great night out
definitely a good restaurant for those special occasions
stick to the steak menu items, you cant go wrong

xxoo