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Sunday brunch at Draper Street

It's been weeks since I whipped up a Sunday brunch. What was a weekly staple in the UK has faded to a distant memory. Lazy or busy I guess.

Finally got my act together today, with chorizo, bacon, mushroom, tomatoes, caramelised red onion, spinach and cheesy eggs on soy & linseed bread.

Y.U.M.M.Y...

Martini Rosso, Draper Street

Rich, bitter-sweet and complex, mix Martini Rosso with orange juice on the rocks, garnish with a slice of orange

"The World's Most Beautiful Drink.." they claim. It's certainly tasty 

Sunday night cocktails at Salt House

Back from the reef and catching up with my lady at Salt House. Sunday evening cocktails here turning into a regular thang.

Couple of corkers here, the tequila based tall boy Eduardo Moralez (named after a previous Salt House chef, not a Mexican revolutionary hero) and the Twister Sister, an Amarillo powered orange monster.

Needless to say, this kicked off our Sunday evening perfectly.

Cocktails for two, $14.50 each

Salt House, 6/2 Pier Point Road, Marina Point, Cairns QLD 4870

Lunch at Reef Magic, Moore Reef, Great Barrier Reef

My inaugural dive with the Nautilus Scuba Club (www.nautilus-scuba.net), out of Cairns with Reef Magic to their Marine World pontoon.

The diving was a mix of brilliant and shambolic, but that's a story for another day. 

Dedicated dive club member Judith assured me this is the best lunch on the GBR, and it certainly didn't disappoint, with a tantalising smorgasbord of hot and cold options, from delicious prawns to veggie lasagna, beetroots bursting with goodness and a fantastic fruit salad. 

To top it all off a humpback whale breached less than 100m away just as I was finishing dessert! 

$180 including snorkeling, submersible tours and fish feeding.

Marine Word, Moore Reef, Coral Sea, Australia (50 nautical miles off Australian mainland

Beers at Blue Sky Brewery, Cairns

   
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Touchdown in FNQ after 10,000 mile flight via Singapore and Darwin

Delicious welcome beer samplers at Blue Sky Brewery, our local, award-winning microbrewery

 

Fish & Chips, Cairns

   
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Comfort food at its finest from our favourite new chippy, the Captain Cook Diner: divine coral trout & chips plus outstanding tartare sauce for a bargain $9.50

 

Cheeseburger with bacon at The Avalon, London

There are few things more comforting in life than biting into a burger in a cosy pub, surrounded by your closest friends. A sensation I'm not going to enjoy for a while.

This wasn't quite the last supper, more the last lunch. The burger was no better or worse than the several hundred I have gobbled down over the last dozen or so years I have lived in The Big Smoke. Oh, okay then, it was a step above the norm. But pretty much any burger with bacon and cheese would have done the job. Comfort food at its finest.

London I'll miss you, and your burgers very much.

16 Balham Hill, London SW12 9EB
020 8675 8613

Dinner at Cookie, Glasgow

       
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Last supper with my Mama and step-father Robin before heading off to a land down under. They treated us to a delightful nosh up at funky new neighbourhood hang out Cookie.

Tasty antipasti to start with, marvellous Scottish mussels, all sorts of other delicacies, washed down with the finest of fine wines. See ya later Jimmy!

Cookie styles itself (rather successfully) as a new kind of eatery, incorporating a deli, cookery and every kind of food event. It certainly didn't disappoint.

72 Nithsdale Road, Glasgow G41 2AN 
0141 423 1411‎

 

Assorted Brazilian Sauce & Nosh

             
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Been a bit of a mad dash to get to the finish line while we plan our lightening fast zip round the UK and our imminent relocation Down Under. 

So here are selected culinary highlights from Rio. We are running out of readies, so mostly stayed away from restaurants in the swanky suburbs.

Brazilian food is meat heavy, mostly mixed with huge platters of heavy veggies, washed down with beer in abundance. I don't think the French have much to worry about!

 

Stopover in Lima, Peru: Inca Kola all the way!!!

A lemon verbena-flavored soft drink with a sweet fruity flavor: bubblegum in a bottle!

Inca Kola sólo hay una y no se parece a ninguna: the Peruvian Irn-Bru...