Castle Hill, Hogs Breath Cafe

To celebrate a friend's new job, we decided to head to somewhere local and slightly cheap for dinner celebrations (cheap is always the deal when my friends are either still at uni or accounts). Hogs Breath is the restaurant of choice and a few of us gathered there early to make the most of their 2for1 cocktail happy hour. Can I say, just pay full price, as it seems happy hour also translates to lack of alcohol hour.

Cocktails


Cocktails with curly fries

Curly fries is the accompanying food for cocktails, cripsy golden curlys of fatty starch. What else would you want to coat your stomach with :) though the 3 orders of fries we had, 2 of them were the 'tail end' of the batch of fries, you know, the random short bits that sits at the bottom of the bowl, but we're not complaining, food is food.

For dinner, there were many options, however, looking through and knowing the food that I've already eaten, I opt for the lite cut of surf and turf. When the plate arrived, it looked so sad, like a discarded piece of meat just slapped onto the plate, everything else piled on with no presentation. And it did not look like their picture either....if only we can complain about that, but I'd rather not have spit in my food. The steak was cooked slightly more than what I'd like, but then cooking a piece of steak is quite difficult.

Surf 'n' Turf: Lite Cut

I've never liked the idea of having a steakhouse outing when there's a vegetarian on board, but she was more than happy for HogsBreath as their one of two vegetarian meal is favoured by her. The avocado and crumbed mushroom salad is huge when it arrives. One thing I do like about their salads is that there's still more meat than salad, so you think you're eating healthy, but really you're not.

Avocado and Crumbed Mushroom Salad

Dessert options at Hogs Breath aren't that flash, but I noticed a dish I didn't recognise: Banoffi Pie. A lip-smacking combination of chunky sweet bananas, smooth caramel custard, toasted coconut, strawberry syrup and lashings of whipped cream set on a crunchy biscuit base. A scoop of creamy vanilla ice cream to go with it and you will go bananas! It sounds mouth watering so an order of that is placed. Boy, was it anything but. I'm sure a home made one would be different but all I could taste was the sweetness, nothing more. The strawberry syrup is below average, more like slightly watered down cottee's strawberry syrup.

Banoffi Pie

When it comes down to eat, it wasn't a cheap or delicious night out. I think I'd rather have spent the money at a nicer, classier restaurant.

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