Guillaume at Bennelong

This evening rates up there as one of the most decadent things I may have done. An evening at Bennelong Resturant at the Opera House. When Mand first booked her trip over I asked her where she had always wanted to go to dinner when she lived here but never had the chance to. She came back with a list of 3 places and the Opera House was one of them. Since she had paid all that money to fly over to see me I wanted to treat her to something really special. It took some persuading but she eventually agreed to go with the degustation menu. 8 (count em....8) courses of the most amazing tasting food I have ever eaten. And 8 different wines to go with them. Fuck. As an added bonus my friend Jon is the sommelier there so we got looked after with slight deviations and extras from the list. He gave us a brilliant night. We sat down at 8 to the best table in the place and finished our banquets around midnight. Not the kind of thing you could do too often (or afford to) but so pleased we did it. OMG ask me one day about the Passion Fruit souffle.