My Second Wedding Anniversary

For our second anniversary we spoiled ourselves and it was all about food and wine! Yes, we paid another visit to a place we love, the Hunter Valley in NSW - but not before we had dinner at Quay on the actual date of our anniversary :)

(Diet starts tomorrow)

We stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney
on the night of our anniversary. I bagged all
the L'Occitane toiletries to take home of course.

Our delicious dinner at Quay with our 2 best friends

Amuse bouche: marron with abalone

Snapper in Oyster & Seaweed Consommé

Quay's Eight Texture Chocolate Cake

Petit Fours

My view to the left from our table. I had a view of the Opera House to the right

2 years and still blissfully married :)

Watching the sunrise from our hotel room at Four Seasons.
Was too excited (about going to the Hunter Valley) to sleep ;)

Even after the decadent dinner at Quay I was
starving the next morning! Being not so
healthy at Pancakes on the Rocks.

My first stop in the Hunter Valley was to
get a cupcake from Froggies Patisserie

Next anniversary dinner: degustation with matching wines at Emerson's
Carpaccio of Kingfish

Deeeeeeelicious pork belly - the stick was pork crackling!

My sunrise view of the Brokenback mountain range from
our cottage at Broken View Estate

There were lots of kangaroos in our backyard
near the Broken View Estate vineyards

High Tea at Tower Lodge - I just adored the
décor of this establishment.
It had an Old World-Spanish Villa feel.

Our favourite place in the Hunter Valley and our favourite restaurant
of all time (worldwide!) Hungerford Hill winery (the left building)
and Muse Restaurant (on the right)

My favourite dish of the degustation - seared Canadian scallops
It was served to us with a dome of cold butter covering the entire dish
which melted by the time we were ready to cut into it.

A special treat for us from the kitchen :)

OK, so we had to come back the next day for lunch!

Turkish bread with a trio of dips

I would come here even if all they sold were these DELICIOUS fries

Banana & Caramel Meringue Tart with Pecan Ice Cream

Like I said, diet starts tomorrow.