I headed to tropical North Queenland for Queen’s birthday long weekend and stayed two nights in Palm Cove to catch up on some R&R at the Angsana Resort
The one bedroom suites were more than accomodating in size with fully equipped kitchen (decked out with Miele appliances) and large bedroom upstairs. The sitting room can comfortably fit a party of 15 – 20 people, and the upstairs bedroom has two individual bathrooms on either side of the room, for all of those (like me) who hate to share. Sheer bliss.
Buttermilk pancakes with banana, maple and honey ice cream
Japanese breakfast with seared tuna, Japanese pickles, Tofu and wakame miso soup and rice
Dinner at Nu nu Restaurant on Williams Esplanade
Freshly baked sourdough with lemon and olive oil
Freshly shucked Coffin Bay oysters – unwashed, the way I like them!
Soft shell crab and avocado roll with cured yellow fin tuna in Ponzu sauce
Twice cooked quail, Sichuan eggplant salad, home made XO
North Queenland mudcrab in soy, ginger and shallot dressing, sticky rice in lotus leaf with lapcheong, Kailan and broth
Mandarin Souffle, mandarin cream, mandarin sorbet
Hibiscus Marshallow – which was fragrant, subtly sweet, delightful and reminiscent of Jean Georges in New York… if not better!
Nothing too much to rave about the restaurant scene in Palm Cove, but the ingredients were fresh and the service was good. Just a nice, relaxed environment to getaway from the hustle and bustle of the city, and not to mention, the horrid, rainy and cold Sydney weather!
Other recommended restuarants in the area:
The Reef House (Sebel)
Vivo Bar & Grill
thanks for the correction
somehow I always seem to look at your blog in the morning while I’m eating yogurt and granola and I see all this delicious food on your blog. How do you manage to eat all that food and keep so thin?
oh wow..looks sooo relaxing and the food looks DELICIOUS!! how much were they?? hahaha….
envious lol
I gotta write these down
Is that location for breakfast near the water?
all food.. wheres the ppl?
yummmmmmmmm
The food looks fantastic! I’m jealous!
@Just_another_life_of_a_girl - sorry, I didn’t keep a record of any prices… must’ve been too chilled. I’ll remember next time
@Missy_So - Yes it’s right in front of the beach – say, 50 footsteps away?
@ant100 - SECRET!
It all looks amazing. May I ask what you do for a living?
your entries always make me hungry….
man.. the food!!! the food!!!!!!
why are there no pictures of people
booo!
@La_Nocciola - because it’s “somewhere else”
tee heee found it!!
@La_Nocciola - where? lol….