As I mentioned last week, it was our wedding anniversary last Wednesday, and on Saturday we went out for dinner to a very nice restaurant. Neither of us had tried it before, and we were both curious because something so expensive must be good, right?

We arrived and were seated at our table, which unfortunately wasn’t next to the window. Even so, we had a lovely view of the lights on the Adelaide plains (although we are a bit desensitised to it because we have a similar view from our house). A waitress came over and asked if we’d like some water, to which we said yes. She then asked if we wanted sparkling or still. Errrmm, I guessed that it wouldn’t have been appropriate for me to say ‘tap’, so I just went with still.

Nothing on the entrée menu really grabbed us, so we decided to have a main and dessert. I got a tenderloin, and M had venison. We also got 2 serves of vegetables and some mashed potato. When everything arrived, I thought I should have had an entree because my piece of meat was so tiny, but fortunately there was plenty of mashed potato, without which I’m sure I would still have been hungry afterwards. The main course was really good, but I wouldn’t say it’s any better than at our usual favourite restaurant.

For dessert, I decided to have the Magill Estate Chocolate Truffle Box. I was hesitant to order it because I’m tending to steer away from really chocolatey desserts these days, but there wasn’t really anything else that took my fancy. When it arrived, it consisted of a box with 9 truffles in it. I thought there might have been a variety of truffles, but they were all the same. The first one was divine - so rich and smooth, a lovely hazelnut praline. After the 7th one, though, I was glad to see the end (I gave M two of them). I’d actually been contemplating putting the box in my bag and having them later, but thought that might not be very good form, plus it would have been pretty obvious when the waitress came to take the plate and the box wasn’t on it any more.

We had a nice port with dessert, and coffee afterwards. There was a selection of petits fours with coffee, and thank God none of them were chocolate. So, all in all dinner was very nice. I don’t know whether we’d go back, only because it wasn’t really worth the price, although the food was excellent. I think we’ll just stick to Lenzerheide from now on.