57. The Potting Shed @ Alexandria

A really cool place to chill for dinner and drinks.

Location: 41-43 Bourke Road, Alexandria NSW 2015 (about a 15-20 min walk from Green Square Station)

Hours: Everyday 11:30am onwards til late

Phone: (02) 9699 2225

 

The Potting Shed is a relatively new addition to the popular ‘The Grounds of Alexandria’. I’ve been to The Grounds but haven’t brought myself to posting about it…the lighting inside really sucked so the photos came out really dark…but maybe one day. The lighting here was no better but I plucked up the nerve to flash my camera torch for the meal – it’s less weird taking at night than during the day. Still an embarrassment to my friends though…hehe~ thank you for putting up with me and my super bright flashlight ^^v The photos came out really bright and shiny but I didn’t want to filter them cos…lazy :P

 

That shovel clipboard is so creatively cool!!!!!

Toilers Tonic ($15)

A refreshingly fruity and sweet cocktail made of basil vodka limocello and strawberry blitz  with a spritz of lime and ginger beer.

Kurobuta Pork Belly Sliders ($16)

A piece of Japanese styled kurobuta pork belly, kimchi, purple cabbage and red-eye mayo sandwiched between mini charcoal brioche buns and a side of pork crackling. Yummy. But I think I just don’t like charcoal buns in general because they’re more on the dry side of the scale. I think they look awesome though and I’m a sucker for aesthetics.

Mini Dogs ($16)

Their very own kurobuta pork & fennel sausages with a caraway seed, cabbage and apple slaw, white onions and a yummy creamy dill & mustard sauce. This was very very very good, especially the sausage. The onions tasted a bit spicy in the raw way (bleeeeh) but, it’s healthy right?

Buttermilk Popcorn Chicken ($12)

Cutely served in a ceramic pot with side of honey mustard, these have got to be the biggest popcorn chickens ever! And very tasty :3

Jacket-Roasted Sweet Potato ($9)

Sweet potato roasted with rock salt and crispy shallots. There’s nothing really special about this – I ordered this because I like sweet potato~ Sadly the rock salt (?) disturbed the natural sweetness of the sweet potato by adding an unwanted salty (almost sour-like) taste to some parts >:( That or my taste buds were being weird and tasting things that weren’t there…

Cherry & Hazelnut Bombolini ($12)

Served with spiked mascarpone and cinnamon sugar. The name ‘bomboloni’ got me simply because it sounded funny. Had to Google what it was but I was pretty much set on ordering this. Well I did see a chocolate pudding afterwards and had a couple of moments to toss between the two but I still ended up getting this. Anyway, Google told me a bomboloni is an Italian style filled donut so I expected a cherry jam and hazelnut centre of some sort but alas it was empty. The jam was instead spread across the plate along with the mascarpone, creating a cosy bed for three bombolini’s.

By itself, the bomboloni’s were just dry donuts but the jam and mascarpone made it awesome. It’s like the jam and whipped cream to scones – absolutely essential. Sadly not enough jam and mascarpone for me since I like to really load the stuff on but it’s a good dessert to end on if you don’t want something overly sweet.

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Other food ordered by friends just for show-and-not-tell (since I didn’t try) purposes~

 

Rum Coffee Cobbler ($17) & something I don’t know….

Chilli-Salt Squid ($15) – half finished haha

Pasture-Fed Angus Eye Fillet ($28)

Slow Cooked Grain-Fed Angus Short Rib ($23)

David Blackmore Full-Blooded Wagyu Cheeseburger ($21)

Self-Saucing Chocolate Pudding ($14)

Banana Tarte Tatin ($14)

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Finally, fancy a marshmallow on the way out? Yes!

I actually failed to notice the bowl of marshmallows and tin of skewers next to the wheelbarrow wood fire on the way inside but it couldn’t escape my attention on my way out. Genius warmth-generating feature for the winter weather!! :3

The Potting Shed has a pretty cool vibe. We were struggling for table space though. At one point we tried fitting almost 9 dishes (?) onto one table which was rather small and we were sharing the tight space between 5 people. It proved to be challenging but eventually do-able. Being super busy on a Saturday night  it was understandable that they couldn’t spare us another table but despite this, I’d still like to go back to try some other things I missed out on. Like that cheeseburger. *drools*

P.S Happy birthday to a coffee-loving friend of mine! Thanks for proposing Potting Shed ~

:)

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CJ

Location: 41-43 Bourke Road, Alexandria NSW 2015

Hours: Everyday 11:30am – midnight

Phone: (02) 9699 2225