Wowza, another excellent day, who would have thought, eh? Anyhow, we went to a barbecue at the home of Brian Zulaihka and his wife Jennie Lawrence. He designed the house within his firm and it has seen the pages of such high profile magazines as Dwell and the like. So we got to go to his house, have a tour of it given by him, then eat lunch with Brian, Tim Greer of TZG, and both their wives. It was spectacular. The food was not what I had expected when I heard barbecue, but I imagine they are a bit above hamburgers and hot dogs. Instead we had, smoked salmon, seared tuna, a whole baked fish, selection of fancy cheeses, olive bread, pita, hummus, the whole shebang. They also had dessert, a cinnamon strawberry custard pie type deal and an almond currant crumb cake. Other than the desserts, not typically food I would want to eat, but it was all really quite delicious, even the pheasant pate. Pinky’s out kids, I’m comin home classy!
Anyway, to get to this house, we had to take a ferry, which is cool because I had yet to take a ferry, but as it turns out, standing on the front open deck of the ferry does some crazy things to my hair. Picture my drivers license… So the house is located right on the harbor with a view of the city, kinda tucked down the bottom of a hill at the end of a really small alleyway type street. Similar to Nick Seeman’s house in the mountains, most of the windows slide completely pen to bring nature in and allow an amazing openness we can’t seem to get in Ohio.
After lunch, and I mean just about as soon as we’d finished eating, we had to go. They’re busy people, got things to do ya know? It’s ok though, the day was awesome. So from there we caught the ferry back to Circular Quay ad downtown where we tried to figure out what to do. Ms. Lorubbio and myself decided to go on a “date”, a.k.a. I wanted to find some hot chocolate so we wandered aimlessly through the Rocks (everyone remember what the Rocks is?) not finding anything to drink with a suitable price tag and a view. It’s a tough life. So we walked around for close to two hours I’d wager and ended up just looking for a bus to get to Leichhardt, which is a Little Italy of sorts. Know whose idea it was to go there?
Well once we got to Leichhardt, we walked around, not sure what we’d find, but we stumbled upon a little family café that had a decent looking menu, but we just got hot chocolate for now. We continued this “date” from there by walking all the way back down the street we had just walked down, then turning around and coming almost all the way back so someone could see every restaurant on the street. Know whose idea all that was? In her defense, we ended up at an amazing restaurant and had a fantastic meal, so we’ll give her that one. Zucchini flowers with goat cheese, Ravioli with mushrooms and veal, a banana toffee pie, and a bottle of wine later, I’m ready for bed. Let’s go home.
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