First stop - Short Stop Coffee and Donuts. Donuts, you say... why?? Because Short Stop serves not only decent, not overly sweet donuts, and Market Lane coffee, which I love, and thought I can only get from Melbourne.It didn't disappoint - fluffy coffee and walnut donut to go with my morning flat white, sitting by the side walk, watching the morning walkers/cyclists go by.
Apré, We strolled around looking for a potential lunch place, and decided to go straight to 12 Micron although our booking wasn't until 2pm...
Yeah. Gotta come back and sample their meals another time. And the spectacularly creative and decadent dessert menu. We had some amazing lunch that lined our stomachs for sweet stuff, the highlight of our day. Alright you purists out there who are shaking your heads at our savoury lunches on a dessert day ... Well, come to 12 Micron and you'll find it hard to resist too!
Anyway, I had a Gin and Tonic (gin and tonic jelly, lime mousse, lemon curd, lime gels, sherbety lime and white chocolate), while my friend had a "Mandarin" (chocolate, mousse sphere, mandarin sphere, mandarin curd, tonka bean ice cream).
Just look at these gorgeous goodies...
But wait, there's more - just while we thought it was over, our lovely waiter came with a final sweetener of black current jelly (mouthwateringly tangy, like eating a mouthful of black current concentrate); white chocolate dipped peppermint pistachio biscuit (light and flaky and intensely flavoured), and a chocolate truffle filled with liquid salted caramel (need I say more??) It was amazing, delicious, out of this world, all that.
Did I say I'm coming back?Thus ended our glorious sunny, warm day out at Barangaroo, stuffed and happy, vowing to return hopefully soon; even if I have that duck again I would be happy ....
CS
