Happy birthday Grill'd!!! ...Happy birthday everybody!!

Headed down to Grill'd (healthy burgers) this evening on the corner of Crown and Oxford Street in Darlinghurst for their 1st birthday BOGOF (best abbreviation ever btw: Buy One Get One Free FYI). The place was buuusy, done up with loads of balloons and party stuff and had a nice lively vibe.




We were in the mood for chicken burgers so we both went for the 'Zen Hen', which has satay sauce and shredded carrot, with that amazing crunchy lettuce of theirs and a side of the amazing fries with herbed mayo and loads of Tabasco mixed with ketchup. It's like they double-fry the chips they're so crunchy and coated in a herby sea salt... Freaking delish. Major burger boner!!

They even put a little cupcake on the side for us for their birthday! Awwwwwwwesome.

Http://www.grilld.com.au/

Excelsioooorrrrr!!!

So we ended up in the Excelsior on Foveaux street in Surry Hills. It's right around the corner from Gus' place on Belmore and we had been there on our drunken Friday night escapades a few weeks ago and had a great time. It's been recently taken over by the people who run the Beresford on Bourke St... And the back is converted into a Mexican restaurant which is full of pinata's and Mexican style decor, but in a cool way.

It was fairly lively even for a rainy Tuesday night. Mikey had the steak and I had the fish, which was delicious! Not sure what kind of fish it was but it was meaty, tender and crispy skinned, served with a spicy salsa verde and some kind of celeriac salad which worked really well with the flavour of the fish and lots of spicy piquant sauce on the side which made my eye sockets sweat a bit... Yumm. We also shared a hotdog which was covered in a mountain of fluffy shredded cheese and only $7!

Awesome little spot for midweek craic.

Location:Foveaux street, surry hills, NSW

Friday Friday gotta get doon on Friday....

So now that I have my head back together after yesterdays hell - a quick run down of what me and GuGu got up to on Friday night.
Started off on the corner of Crown and Oxford st at Grill'd for healthy burgers, where we had cheese and pickle burgers with fries and herby mayo - as Oprah might say "it was ahmaaaazinnng!!!"

Then we went up to Lo-fi on Taylor Square for a couple of drinks, it was fine but a little bit wanky and quite pricey. Not really in keeping with me and Gustins Friday night cheap beers night so after Aims headed off to dinner with friends, we bailed out of there and headed down to the Beresford but only gave it the once over before deciding the crowd was way to suity and left there and headed to the cricketers arms which was waaay more up our street. It was a pretty cold night and there was a nice cristmassy feel to it, I was drinking 'White rabbit' which is delishbags but Gus reckons it's what might have given me the hangover from exorcism hell the next day so it may infact be the devils work. After that we decided to head down to this weird hostel bar by central station to try to get some $10 jugs of beers but it was too late when we got there so we just drank a couple of schooners and then headed to the kebab shop on the corner of devonshire st and elizabeth st in surry hills, they do amazing kebabs and toast them in the panini toaster with loads of hot sauce. Scoffed that and then on the way back to gus's we stumbled upon a bar on the corner of fouveaux st and belmore called the 'excelsior' which has a big Mexican restaurant out the back and a dj playing some good 80s tunes so we ended up dancing and drinking a few more.
All in all it was a good night but I must remember not to ever do that on a Friday night again with work at 6.30am the next morning...