Lunch @ the Stones

We had a packed full weekend!

It started of with a lovely lunch at the Stones of the Yarra Valley. Sounds familiar? well it's the place where we got married. It's a beautiful winery accompanied by a stone chapel. They serve lunches on the weekend and we had to give it a try! it was a bit of an early celebration of Valentines day.

Their Chef brings Middle Eastern flavours to the table with a bit of a Modern Australian twist.

The food was nice but we expected more, we didn't take that many pictures but here are a few of the meals.

The platter for the entre was probably the best:

Stones Antipasti Platter - Pomegranate dressed oysters, pickled local vegetables, chicken terrine, rocket and macadamia pesto, Grovedale volos olives

Mains:

I had the Seared flat iron steak with a red onion marmalade and skordalia. It was lovely, the iron steak has a strong flavour, so if you've never had it before be careful! I'm not a fan of strong meaty flavours. Luckily the skordalia and onion marmalade were a great compliment.

Wayne had Lamb noisette with organic zucchini flowers, pine nuts and currants. He thought it was a bit dull but still enjoyed the lamb, it was tender and melted in the mouth.

We later visited friends of ours who live near by who are off to Singapore next week, so it was good to say hi. When we got home we felt so sick from all the food we ate, we were so full! but then all of a sudden an hour later we managed to fit dinner in...we seriously need to focus on not eating too much.

We then gate crashed a movie night at friends place, we watched the traitor. Interesting movie about terrorists and bombs, showing 2 sides of islams the good and the bad. Basically, there's good people and there's bad people.

Next blog is part 2 of the weekend & it's Valentines day :)