bank holiday lunch date - Chiswick Restaurant

we started a tradition last year. our annual bank holiday lunch date. 

we have never appreciate bank holiday so much until we became parents. it's the only day off we get to go out as a couple without having to make special arrangements for boo because he will go to daycare as usual. it has become the most looked forward to holiday for both of us. this might make us sound like really bad parents but considering we don't have anyone here we can rely on to look after boo for us for the rest of the 364 days, i actually don't think we're bad parents at all. 

anyway, last year, we went to Jamie's Italian so this year, we decided to try Matt Moran's new venture - Chiswick. Chiswick is located outside of the city. nestled in the posh suburb of Woollahra. we arrived ten minutes before our booking and we easily found a good parking spot right outside of the restaurant. it's all day street parking and it's free! we wander around the front garden before making our way to the restaurant. 

we were seated right next to the windows and our table looked out to the lush lawn right in front of the restaurant. after a quick scan of the menu, we ordered our food and the restaurant starts to fill up with more diners. 

this is what we ordered: 
entree: snow crab sliders, pickled vegetables with avocado cream
main: the Moran family roast shoulder of lamb and a garden salad. the salad sounded boring but we ordered it because it is literally a garden salad as the greens are all freshly picked from the kitchen garden of the restaurant
desserts: i had the waffles with vanilla ice cream and rhubarb compote and Jim had the hazelnut rocher
drinks: Jim had a glass of red from the Barossa Valley while i had a homemade lemonade and a green tea to go with my desserts. 

all in all, we enjoyed the food very much. the shoulder of lamb is full of flavour but it was a little bit on the lean side. that dish was meant to be shared between two people but we could only finish 3/4 of it. we could have done with just one dessert but we were feeling greedy so we ordered one each. i was so full after that meal that i went into a food coma as soon as we got home and i didn't eat dinner until 9. 

i wonder where we would go for our next bank holiday lunch date?