Best night of my Life Trip Report.
Ok i hope i do this night justice in the form of words.
On Monday night i get a text from Matt downing asking if i wanna joing him and some others for dinner at crown at 8pm, i accept and we decide rockpool is the venue. Matt informs me if i pick him and Andrew up on the way in im freerolling for dinner....Umm OK! so i swing the cab past Matt & Andrews place a little before 8 and we meet Marcus collins at rockpool. As we arrive i see Georgia is working at rockpool now (old friend from pearl) and we get show our table, outside area but is well covered and heated so you never feel like your outside.
So we sit down get some waters and Matty hits the wine list orders a bottle of wine and then decided to hold the wine for now and order champagne cant remember what bottle but it was damn good. we also have some beers and look at the menu. We start with a ham plate which had some chorizo, ham, prosciutto. Then we have some lobster cooked in a herb butter sauce... Now Andrew hasn't had lobster before and had stated he wasn't keen on fishy tasting things etc.
So once the lobster arrived Andrew try's a piece and announces along the lines of "that tastes like crap" Marcus, Matt and myself cant believe what we are hearing but decide "oh well...more for us!!" We had also ordered a beautiful pork belly dish which was confited then had the skin crisped up and then sliced and served with mustard fruits (which were a stupid garnish because this pork was beautiful on its own) Also the service and everything about rockpool was awesome up to this point. Matt couldn't remember the type of wine he had last time, and asked to speak to somellier, well the person who last served Matt. Wasn't actually somm. tonight but had his own tables to wait on. But he took his time and looked after us also and found the wine Matt wanted.
Next to arrive was the best steak i have ever eaten in my life and 400g Rib Eye bone on cooked med-rare and we had some sides which were good.
Then Matt called a guy he had met during the week John, who joined us for some drinks and he ordered some food too. John had bought a 10K bottle of cognac the other night and was telling us he gave what he had left of it including the bottle to a chef from koko's as a tip, that's easily a 4-5K tip. So anyway we have another bottle of champagne and head to Fidel's bar. Were john decided to buy a bottle of Louis the 13th bottle of cognac only $3K, Matty buys some cigars and we head to a smoking room. So here we are drinking this cognac and smoking these great cigars ( i don't normally smoke cigarettes,but have a cigar every now and then) when a debate comes up of if someone could skull the rest of the cognac at this stage there is just over 50% of the bottle left and Andrew is saying he could do it easily whilst Marcus and Matt disagree and I'm just laughing at the $ figures being thrown around in prop bet madness. In the end Andrew gives up because the other 2 aren't listening to his reasoning. Basically he was saying he could beer bong it. so it wouldn't touch his mouth (coz its so strong) and the boys were even allowing in the bet he could throw it straight back up he just had to skull it in one go.
So they decided its not going to happen obviously lol. and matt and john decided to order a 98' bottle of grange hermitage by far the best bottle of win Australia has produced. And we then deicded to take it upto the mahogany room. So up we go, im not allowed in because my jeans have some torn patches etc on them. Marcus who is staying at crown hooks me up with a brand new pair of jeans he had just bought lol. (thanks marcus) And back we go. I had never been to the mahongany room before but it is great any drink free nice room big TV's so we get some more champagne and start drinking by a TV showing horse racing, and prop bets begin. the boys start at $100 a race were they all picked a number for every race and matty starts cleaning up, i sat back and laughed And decided to join in but for micro stakes. After that some baccarat was to be had and im glad i wasnt in on it. i have no idea about the game, i just kept hearing "legs, 2 side 3side etc." and so i just kept drinking and laughing as the boys scooped some cash. I had to work the next afternoon at 2pm so i decided at about 5:30am it was time to call it a night and head home. I was soooo tired after a busy mothers day at work, i tell ya waking up with cigar breath and red lips and teeth from wine is NOT a pretty sight thats for sure.
Hope i did it justice, was a great night.
Dan
