Hello Foodies!Happy New Years to you and yours! We hope that one of your resolutions is to go to Melbourne, Australia because if you do -- do we have a restaurant for you! Our new fave Melbourne eatery is called DELIZIA and it is full of delicious delicacies. The chef, Richenda Pritchard, is a family friend of the forks and she took great care of us. We were treated to the zuchinni flower special - they were crunchy to perfection and stuffed with several cheeses. (Pictured is Lisa fork, Marcus Herrick, chef Richenda Pritchard, Carolyn Herrick, Melissa fork).
As you will see from the following photos, our main course choices were....
Farmed Victorian rabbit braised with fresh tomato, rosemary and balsamic with roasted kipfler potatoes.
Moroccan style lamb meatballs braised with sour cherries and aromatics, served on a bed of giant cous cous and topped with saffron yoghurt.
Pork belly slow roasted with star anise, served with poached blood plums, sauteed chicory and roasting juices.
The only one not shown here was mine. I am still dreaming about it - Blue swimmer crab meat tossed with fresh linguini, chili, garlic, olive oil and parsley.
Then for Delizia deserts, we all shared pannacotta topped with pomegranate and bomboloni freshly made with blood orange sorbet. Heavenly.
The address is 160 Victoria Street in Seddon ( a suburb of Melbourne). Phone is 9687 9397 and email is cucina@delizia.net.au.
They also sell some of their own jams and marmalades, ketchup, pickled vegetables, tomato sauce and other items.
If I could take anything back to New York with me, Delizia would be #1 on my list!
We will be blogging on where we're eating in Melbourne during our stay here. More to report soon!
Cheers,
the Forks
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