So, today was a pretty good day – the rain was gone, and it was brilliantly sunny – nice and warm, very bright and just exactly the sort of weather we are looking for. Everything got sorted with the car (we pick it up on Thursday), we ordered a new king size bed (which is fantastic – one of the latex cushioned/ memory foam jobs), and I got a new mobile (number to be sent out later – don’t really want to stick that on the ole t’interweb).
We decided that, what with it being a monday as well, that it was time to celebrate – and eat out! we have been the very models of restraint for the past few days, eating home cooking (most of which was cooked on the Barbie, naturally), but tonight we fancies something extra special.. so we drove down to fremantle (the locals call it “freo”) to a cracking place called Outback Jacks.
For starters, we opted to eat some of the local wildlife – crocodile (tasty, little bit like chicken 😉 ) and kangaroo (quite “beefy”, little bit like rabbit). This set us up nicely for the mains.
wow. they have steaks of all sorts and brilliant quality! You go up to the counter, which is just like the meat counter in the supermarket, with these huge succulent bits of raw meat sitting there – tell them what you want, they show you it, and you okay it.
Jen had a 400g Kobe steak (well, technically a Wagyu steak – you can’t properly call it kobe unless it’s been raised in the Kobe area), whilst I opted for the 500g “not so hungry” australian Angus (rare – is there any other way? 🙂 ). They arrived on huge platter plates with salad, chunky chips, caramelised onions and a pepper sauce for me (you don’t put a sauce on Wagyu steak).
so, there we were, grinning from ear to ear, eating some of the biggest, tastiest steaks either of us have ever seen, and Jen getting quite happily sloshed on the house white (I was driving, a mistake I won’t make next time!)
great food, great evening, and when the bill came, quite pleasant. came to $104 all in – about £50.
now, having rolled back to the car and driven back to the flat with the top button of my jeans undone, there’s little left to do but relax in front of the telly. a good day. 🙂
Mmmmmmmm!
Steak!
🙂