I’ve been tagged by Jade to list my Top 5 Eating Spots. After Tracey’s post about Top Ten Lists, it will be a challenge to stick to five so I’m limiting myself to eateries in four places I’ve lived.
1. Fifteen years ago Pete and I went to The Walnut Room in Brisbane. I am STILL talking about it. It rates as the absolute-no-competition-alltime-best restaurant I have ever eaten at! The food was good, but the service was outstanding. We had our own exclusive waiter and he was so discreet that he managed to refill my glass without me even noticing. Superb.
2. In Townsville we like to eat breakfast at a cafe called C-bar. The food is nice/average but we like it because we can walk there and it is right on the sea. There is nothing between us and the water. Here’s a photo that Katja blogged a while ago. Wouldn’t you love it too?
New Zealand is FULL of excellent restaurants! I’m not kidding. If you love good food, then you need to book a holiday in New Zealand NOW and go on a restaurant crawl.
3. Palmerston North is not a big place but it is chock full of great places to eat. My favourite is Bella’s. The menu is good, the food is fantastic but, again, what makes the place extra good is the service – it’s one of those lovely places where you feel truly welcomed.
4.Hamilton (my home town) is also overloaded with choice. You can’t beat Scotts Epicurean for breakfast. They make amazing homemade crumpets (nothing like the supermarket kind!) and salmon that I’d walk a hundred miles for (mind you, I seldom meet a salmon I don’t adore).
5. And a few doors down is Metropolis which is practically a Hamilton Institution. And so it should be! It’s impossible not to love the place.
If Peter and I had every dollar we have eaten in restaurants over the years, we would be able to laugh about my dying car!! But we do love a good meal 
Where do you like to eat??
Casey’s Deli is a favourite in Townsville. It is dark like a cave. The tables and chairs are all scrounged from op shops and are mismatched, as is the cutlery. There is a little deli with unusual foods in interesting packages to peruse when you have finished eating. I have never been disappointed by their food.
By: peppermintpatcher on June 16, 2007
at 8:53 pm
I waitressed for years so I really hate going places with bad service. But apart from that I am happy if someone else is doing the cooking. (and the driving!!)
By: Stomper Girl on June 16, 2007
at 9:01 pm
Wow. Eating out? As in, food you didn’t cook yourself?
You do realize that for me, this is like reading pornography?
By: Tanya Brown on June 17, 2007
at 2:49 am
What a great idea, five eateries. The salmon in Hamilton sounds wonderful.
By: Maddy on June 17, 2007
at 6:42 am
we love eating out to and do it often. after a week at the salt mine eating out is a treat we both love .. the sunshine coast is a great place to eat out heaps of great places from inexpensive to over the top does food really cost that much excpensive..last night we went to yabby’s at cotton tree and had bug rissoto. with a crisp glass of cab sav and better still the friends we went with made it a treat for us all as none of us had to cook… happy week margie
By: margie on June 17, 2007
at 11:29 am
Here I am innosently reading a few blogs on Sunday afternoon, and now I am SO hungry! I haven’t been to either of the Hamilton ones Kirsty so have noted them down for future reference. ( their websites are great and to blame for my surge in appetite )
I heard once that Palmerston North has more restaurants per head of population than anywhere else in NZ. Wonder if that is still true?
By: Ali Honey on June 17, 2007
at 12:45 pm
Yum, yum, yummy! I’ve already finished dinner and you’re making my
mouth water! I once went to an amazing restaurant in Christchurch where it looked the the decor and the food were from King Arthur’s Camelot. It was very scrummy…thankfully we had cutlery
I’m going to have to file your list away for when the geezer and I next go across the ditch.
By: Jade on June 17, 2007
at 6:50 pm