I must say the first thing I thought about when I realised there would be seven of us dining was the food photo opportunities! I promised everyone that I would take the photos of their food very quickly, and so they were happy to cooperate. So let’s begin. K’s mum ordered one of the daily specials: grilled barramundi brushed with garlic and basil butter, served with hand-cut chunky potato chips, AU$14.00.

K’s dinner: scotch filet (250 grams), cooked medium rare, served with peppercorn sauce and hand-cut chunky chips. AU$16.50. According to K, her steak was perfectly medium rare.

Jac’s dinner: Jac’s dinner: grilled salmon steak, bok choy and potatoes drowned in served with hollandaise sauce. AU $17.50. Sorry, I know this isn’t the best photo. Jac said her fish was very nice, but she did think there was a little too much sauce. Edit: She also mentioned that the sauce tasted like a premade packet sauce like the sort they use at Fast Eddy’s. It definitely wasn’t made from scratch in the Bistro’s kitchen.

B(K’s partner, Jac’s brother)’s dinner: Chicken Caesar Salad, AU$17.00. Also available without chicken for AU$13.00. B said it was very good. It looked pretty damn good to me.

K ordered one kids’ meal between the two kids, knowing that M, who is 2 and a half, would be far more interested in playing than eating. The High Road Bistro has a kids’ menu of four dishes: fish and chips, nuggets and chips, sausages and chips and something else with chips (sorry, I didn’t write it down and have forgotten). S, aged almost seven, chose the fish and chips, AU$ 7.50.

Here’s the fish and chips, all tartared up. Those of you with extremely dirty minds may indeed think of the porniness of this photo (that’s all I’m saying!). Jac sneaked a piece of fish and said it was really good.

My dinner: New York Fettucine (not sure why New York) – fettucine pasta, sundried tomatoes, snowpeas, chunks of chicken, bacon and mushrooms in a creamy sauce. This was the main size, AU $17.00. Also available in entree size for AU$13.50. I shouldn’t order creamy dishes (as it blocks up my head with phlegm afterwards) but I couldn’t resist, it sounded too good on the menu. It was worth the blocked head too – the creamy sauce had a beautiful flavour, with just the right amount of garlic, and there was a generous amount of sundried tomato (which I love) and chicken. The mushrooms were cut to just the right size – they still had their mushroominess. My only gripe was with the snowpeas, which had been slivered. But overall, this was delicious and I would have it (and blocked up head) again!