22 Oct - On The Terrace / KoKo Black, Claremont

My birthday this year was in Claremont, at a cafe called On The Terrace. Upon arrival, we were shown the menus which turns out to be quite a bit smaller than the one posted online. A little disappointed about that cos the options I wanted were no longer available.


To start off with, I went for the beef cheek. This was braised and shredded, and served with some garlic puree stuff and fresh bread. The cheek was tender and had a real strong beefy taste to it, despite being braised in red wine, which tends to overpower everything.


For a main I wanted the mushroom risotto which was no longer on the menu. I opted instead for the beef fillet, which was requested rare. This bit of meat was cooked just the way I wanted it and went down a treat. The others got ripped off with their gnocchi choice as they had run out and convinced some to mix in some angel hair pasta.





After dinner was a short walk to KoKo Black where I had a drink and some sweets (I forget the name of the set). The hot chocolate affagoto was nice (although I was expecting big things from the way CB raved about it), and after finishing the drink and sweets, I felt like something savoury haha.