Tel: (02) 6331 2202
Website: www. cobblestonelane.com.au
This restaurant has won a large assortment of awards, featured in newspapers and food critics regularly rave on about it.
Entrée:
Trunkey pork belly with caramelised cyder, celeriac, apple & cranberry strudel (pictured below) – sweet, tangy savoury punch of flavour, slice of roast pork lines the bottom topped with pastry filled with caramelised capisicum with roma herb running through it.
Wood smoked ocean trout, avocado, grapefruit & horseradish cream – rare with avocado salsa lined with citrus fruit pieces & cream cheese. Very average, they should have mentioned the trout was not cooked and limited to serving this in summer (not the arctic months of winter which reputedly snow in Bathurst).
Main:
Roasted Beef fillet, field mushrooms & red wine jus (pictured below)– medium thick steak done well, perfect potato mash with magical butter (see below description); mushroom wine ‘jus’ reminiscent of vegemite-tinged moo jus.
Pan fried Jew fish, creamed leek, artichokes & Mediterranean salsa – good texture, firm & not flaky, a good piece of fish cooked well with a slightly peppery flavour
Mixed Leaf Salad with Champagne dressing – Champagne gave the leaves a spicy flavour and does go straight to the head for someone who does not drink like myself. Refreshing & different, but not my preference.
We received a complimentary walnut dessert – light fruity flavour with exciting texture and crunchy seeds. Reminds me of a good ol’ walnut & prune log slice I used to enjoy.
Coffee: really strong, bitter flavour with pleasant lingering aftertaste – don’t need buckets of sugar or syrup to cover the bean flavour means it is a high grade of coffee. Thumbs up!
After all this, I have to say the most memorable thing was the butter served with the complimentary bread – it had a fluffy, creamy texture which was in between the butter used Vietnamese pork rolls (more jelly like) and buttered popcorn. Aftertaste – heavenly.
