Saturday, February 03, 2007
Eat Food
La Zeppa, Freemans Bay
Tapa places have taken off in Auckland over the last year or so. I love them myself - I always get jealous of other people's orders if they turn out better than mine! Not that it's stopped me from plate-sharing or swapping halfway (gasp!). But tapas - this is the perfect way to have your cake and eat it too. Food sharing is such a great way to interact with others as well - nothing like bonding over a tasty morsel or eight.
La Zeppa is a great place to do some serious bonding. I went midweek for dinner to celebrate the upcoming wedding of a colleague and friend. 10 of us women, all raring for a decent drink and delicious food after a hard day's slog. La Zeppa is the perfect place for this - midweek and it was packed, and that's saying something, especially when La Zeppa is a pretty big place.
Each of us ordered a couple of dishes to share - so we had LOADS of food all over the table. Heaven I tell you. There was squid, chicken twists things, mushroom empanadas, risotto balls, veal, kumara bites, peking duck, toulouse sausage, prawns - the list goes on. I really can't remember what else we had, because we had so many. It was the best thing, going with a group of people - otherwise there's no way you could taste so many different dishes.
All very well accompanied by a few bottles of Spy Valley Pinot Gris.
And dessert...we were already quite full, but of course, a table full of females - we're not passing up dessert. You really shouldn't at La Zeppa. The list is just delectable - you'll get hungry just reading them. Once again, we all picked one dish (exception of one particular sweet-toothed lady who picked quite a few! Much appreciated though). There were little meringues with cream and berry coulis, these delicious Valhrona chocolate truffles in wafer cases (huge and SOOO chocolatey-evil), Eton Mess, ginger creme brulee, cheeses - honestly, it was incredible. And all so delicious.
Good value too, La Zeppa - you won't go hungry, that's for sure. I thoroughly recommend this place - if you're with a big group, do make sure you book a table, as it's popular!
I'm hungry just remembering that great meal.
La Zeppa is at 33 Drake St, Freemans Bay, Auckland (just behind Victoria Park Markets).
La Zeppa, Freemans Bay
Tapa places have taken off in Auckland over the last year or so. I love them myself - I always get jealous of other people's orders if they turn out better than mine! Not that it's stopped me from plate-sharing or swapping halfway (gasp!). But tapas - this is the perfect way to have your cake and eat it too. Food sharing is such a great way to interact with others as well - nothing like bonding over a tasty morsel or eight.
La Zeppa is a great place to do some serious bonding. I went midweek for dinner to celebrate the upcoming wedding of a colleague and friend. 10 of us women, all raring for a decent drink and delicious food after a hard day's slog. La Zeppa is the perfect place for this - midweek and it was packed, and that's saying something, especially when La Zeppa is a pretty big place.
Each of us ordered a couple of dishes to share - so we had LOADS of food all over the table. Heaven I tell you. There was squid, chicken twists things, mushroom empanadas, risotto balls, veal, kumara bites, peking duck, toulouse sausage, prawns - the list goes on. I really can't remember what else we had, because we had so many. It was the best thing, going with a group of people - otherwise there's no way you could taste so many different dishes.
All very well accompanied by a few bottles of Spy Valley Pinot Gris.
And dessert...we were already quite full, but of course, a table full of females - we're not passing up dessert. You really shouldn't at La Zeppa. The list is just delectable - you'll get hungry just reading them. Once again, we all picked one dish (exception of one particular sweet-toothed lady who picked quite a few! Much appreciated though). There were little meringues with cream and berry coulis, these delicious Valhrona chocolate truffles in wafer cases (huge and SOOO chocolatey-evil), Eton Mess, ginger creme brulee, cheeses - honestly, it was incredible. And all so delicious.
Good value too, La Zeppa - you won't go hungry, that's for sure. I thoroughly recommend this place - if you're with a big group, do make sure you book a table, as it's popular!
I'm hungry just remembering that great meal.
La Zeppa is at 33 Drake St, Freemans Bay, Auckland (just behind Victoria Park Markets).
# posted by City Girl @ 11:33 am 
