Day 22

Sakae - Japanese Restaurant in Eastwood

Whenever I'm in Eastwood around lunch time, I always have a hard time deciding on what to eat... Oh the dilemmas of having choice.

After walking aimlessly for a while, X and I decided on eating lunch at Sakae. 

There are a few outdoor seats at Sakae, but we chose to sit inside.

The inside is very small and very narrow, but considering that it wasnt very busy today, I didnt mind. We were quickly showed to our table and given menus. 

I think the lunch time menu is more value for many than dinner time. The food choices are pretty much the same, except the bento boxes are way more expensive at night and seem to be smaller. 

X ordered a sushi bento box and I ordered teriyaki fish. 

Woah~the amount of rice that was in my container was enough for two meals of mine. (I'm not much of a rice person)

The sushi bento looks pretty good and pretty similar to the picture on the menu haha

My teriyaki was a bit salty in my opinion, nice but i had to drink a lot of water. But overall it was a decent lunch :)

Day 3
Bondi 

Autumn weather has been kinda trippy lately. some days are really cold and grey and others are hot and sunny... its so unpredictable and at times just annoying. So i thought I'd make the most of today's nice weather and go to Bondi

Originally I wanted to have lunch @ Hurricanes but it wasnt opened....   And considering that I don't normally go to Bondi, I didn't know where to eat. So whatever shop that was opened and looked half decent, is where I went to eat.


After strolling up and down Campbell Parade, we finally settled for Il Puntino. It looked quite old and
warm inside but we chose to sit outside. better view of the beach.

We sat down, had a look over the menu. I chose the chicken Caesar salad and bf had the T-bone steak with vegetables. then we waited...
we waited for quite a while... and considering that there was only 1 other customer sitting near us, was it necessary to wait THAT long....finally some garlic bread came out. we didnt order it but was told that the garlic bread was on the house. (Probably to make up for bad service)
toasted focaccia bread spread with garlic oil on top. was quite nice

( toasted goodness)

Our meals came out 15-20mins later... boy was the wait long... when my Caesar salad came out, it was drenched in dressing... when placing my order, i asked them to put it on the side... i guess they forgot that...

( $16.50)

The egg was the yummiest part of the salad. Not too firm, not runny but soft. 

The bf's steak was too much of a disappointment to bother taking a picture of it... think of a simple home cooked t-bone steak with steamed broccoli, potato and carrots on the side, along with a little pot of packet mushroom sauce... Even I could cook up a better steak than that... and the t-bone steak wasn't medium rare nor was much of the meat edible... definitely was not worth $26

We finished our meal while gazing at this

When we stood up to go pay, a waiter came out and insisted me stay and have a coffee, on the house. After pausing a moment, we decided to stay since we still had time left on our parking

The food wasnt bad, just wasnt great, however because we were at Bondi, it made the outting even more enjoyable.

- steph

Dont think I'll ever bother going to this restaurant again...