roast vegetables
Wednesday Dinner:tonight i was at a marketing get together listening to a number of speakers speak about tools in the online marketing space. it was very interesting.
afterwards, i made a last minute plan with N to meet her for a late dinner.
we decided to meet up in observatory, and we went to a restaurant which has been open for five months now called maso buca (or something along those lines).
it's now in the main road of observatory. it's a little off the main road. we found an outside table at maso buca and although the outside tables overlook the road, it was still pleasant.
we shared some potato dish for starters which was nice - maso buca is a greek and italian restaurant so all the names on the menu were strange and unrecognisable.
for mains, i had the roast vegetable dish which for R35 bucks was a bargain - the spicing made it really tasty.
N had the slow cooked lamb - the menu says that the lamb takes 6 hours to cook - and N said it was enjoyable. all 200 grams! :) (private joke)
okay - the reason for the joke - and i'm tired so i don't know why i'm writing this, is that their was another person in the restaurant that night who had a fight with the owner (who is a friend of N's) as they didn't believe the lamb had enough meat - so the owner took the patron into the kitchen, and weighed the meat, and there was still 150 grams of meat left, although the guy had already eaten part of it. neverthless, he walked out without paying - what do you do in a case like that? citizens arrest?
anyway, N said the slow cooked lamb was really good, but even if it wasn't, there was no way we were complaining - as we heard the owner screaming at the guy as he walked out the restaurant (if someone walked out of my restaurant without paying, i'd probably have done the same so i don't blame her)
we also shared a bottle of red - a merlot - which was a nice wine with a dark woody chocolatey taste. although i still can't tell one bottle of red wine from the next - let alone a merlot from another sort of wine.
after the meal, as we were walking back to the cars, we passed the poi happening at cool runnings. the poi is amazing - a number of guys throwing sticks and ropes around with fire attached to them. so when they throw the sticks around fast, the display is a breathtaking fire exhibition - we stayed for about half an hour watching a number of different guys throwing fire around to the beating of a hypnotic drum rythm.
and now, a couple of glasses of red merlot richer, it's time to bid adieu (or whatever the correct word in greek is).
posted by JimMark31 @ 12:16 AM
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