Omerta

Upon seeing a spreets offer for a degustation “degustazione” at Omerta for $69. Echoes amongst twitter were heard and spreets offers were quickly brought. Atmosphere was quiet when we arrived but became noisy and buzzing over time. The service was quicky and prompt. With such fast service we managed to finished the dinner around 1.5 hours, pretty awesome for a desgustation!

Prosecco Wine, was very addictive! Forgot to asked who the maker was .

Yummy bread!

To start off is the Stracciatella, white peach, tarragon. You really gotta mix this well all together to enjoy each part of flavours. Great mixture of creamy and a touch of sweet. In a way it give us a reminiscent of good old cheesy sticks.

Beef carpaccio, fig, radish, watercress. I believed it also had olive oil and vinaigrette. I am one of those people that still needs to get use to the idea of raw beef, I am slowly warming up to the idea and this dish definitely put me at ease. I can barely taste the rawness of the beef and is probably lovely to devour on a summers day.

Market fish, fregola and salmoriglio. The market fish ended up being swordfish, it was served with the cauliflower and pesto. The butter and lemon can be tasted throughout this dish and left us wanting more.

Gnocchi, brased veal in port, green olive. The gnocchi is very soft and veal melts in your mouth. If you are a reader of this blog you know I fully detest olives of all kinds. There was only one olive in this and I really like it in this dish. Perhaps I changed my love for olives now. This was the biggest highlight of the meal. It left us craving more and more throughout the whole dinner. I was highly depressed when I finished it, that I was even very close to lifting the plate and thinking of licking the plate clean!

Pork loin, parsnip, mustard plum. It was served with a crisp potato chip and greens beas. We deducted the mash was made out of parsnip. The best part of the dish was the mustard plum!

Watermelon granita, mint, lemon sorbet. Sadly we were hit with horrible lighting at this stage turning all our photos yellow so many attempts of photography made the poor granita and sorbet melted. Even melted it was light and refreshing and O-so delicious!

To finish off the dinner is the chocolate and hazel nut cremino. You need to mix it or either dig out each layer of this to enjoy this to the fullest. It was served with almond-typed biscuit and complements the cremino well.

Overall I enjoyed each dish on this degustation and the Gnocchi dish has started to haunt my nightsmares in a good way. I already been thinking about returning and will be making plans to revisit real soon!

We were (or more so me) sadly not full and quick stop at the Messina was made! Lucky it was just two doors down.

I decided on the pandan coconut and mango (front). I guess I can see why they are the best place for gelato in Sydney now

Address:

Omerta:
235 Victoria St
Darlinghurst
NSW 2010
Phone: +61 (0)2 9360 1011
http://www.omerta.com.au


Gelato Messina
241 Victoria St
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
http://www.gelatomessina.com.au

Criniti’s – 1 metre pizza

Have you ever had a massive pizza? Criniti’s pizza at parramatta was definitely memorable. Sadly on that occasion we lack the people to go for the 1 metre pizza. However this occasion we have more then enough .

Fontana white wine.

We were told we could pick three flavours.

Can you imagine the difficulty I had when I was taking Photos?

bottom to top: bbq pollo, atlantica, piccante
We ended up picking these flavours:
bbq pollo – chicken, mushrooms, onions, mozzarella cheese, origano & bbq sauce. I remember having this last time at criniti’s so I picked this again.
atlantica smoked salmon, mozzarella, goats cheese, red onion & capers
rina. We found this a bit salty
piccante- italian salami, roasted capsicum, mozzarella cheese, oregano, olives & chilli. I didn’t try this, I was told it was very spicy which is why I avoided it. Sigh I really hate my low tolerance for spicy foods.

In the end we found ourselves fighting for the last pieces of the bbq pollo pizza. We polished the pizza off easy! We though to ourselves maybe we should of gotten two. This time we ate at the darling harbour’s venue. I kinda find the pizza at Parramatta a bit better.

Parramatta:
291 Church Street,
Parramatta

Darling Harbour:
Shop 461 Level 2
Harbourside Shopping Centre

http://www.crinitis.com.au/

Sicilian Parramatta

My friend saw a deal for 1kg of mussels on every tuesday for $20. So off we head to Sicilian at Parramatta.

Mussel pot served with Chilli Italian Napolitana Sauce comes with pizza crust triangles. Surprising friend managed to polished everything and claim she is still hungry!

Spagetti Blah Blah Blah – Al dente spaghetti served with grilled slices of Italian sausage and traditional napolitana sauce. I should of went with my gut feeling that the pasta will turn out bad. Its edible but I swear i could make better at home. Serving is very big but I am disappointed.

Address
292 Church St
PARRAMATTA NSW 2150

Criniti’s

We were walking along church street, Parramatta and couldn’t decide on a restaurant. Criniti’s was the busiest so we decided to go there. The service also was a huge plus and by the time we left a large line was forming outside will definitely come back again!

Iced Coffee

Octopus Salad “insalata di polipi” warm octopus salad with désirée potatoes, cherry tomatoes & spinach

pollo e funghi – chicken breast, mushrooms & shallots in a creamy white wine sauce, Warren manages to polished the whole thing off must be a sign that it was good.

bbq pollo – chicken, mushrooms, onions, mozzarella cheese & bbq sauce. This pizza is divine and really more then enough for two people. We were also tempted to order the 1 metre pizza but we will save that for another day when we get a much larger group.

tomato bruschetta – woodfired italian bread with cherry tomatoes, virgin oil, origano, basil & red onions. The bread is cut really thick but its lovely and crunchy. I prefer my bruschetta more thinner but it was still yummy!

Descriptions taken (stolen) from the criniti’s website

http://www.crinitis.com.au

Address
291 Church St
Parramatta NSW 2150
Phone (02) 9635 0311

Macchiato

Garlic Bread.. (my version is better !)

Turkish Salmon Sandwich – smoked salmon, avocado, lettuce, mayonnaise, spanish onion, capers & camembert. (with a different bread). My friend gave me the thumbs up

Texas Pizza – chicken, chorizos, cabanossi, ham, mozzarella & bbq sauce. Yum!

Sydney Supreme – ham, chorizos, pepperoni, capsicum, onion, mushroom & pineapple. Good too!

Club Sandwich – chicken, chorizos, tasty cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, egg & fries. Mary had this and she was full after two pieces

Address
338 Pitt St
Sydney NSW 2000
Phone (02) 9262 9525
http://www.macchiato.com.au/