We had gozleme for lunch on Friday at work – I had what’s become pretty much my standard order: lamb, spinach, sundried tomato and mushroom (AU$10.50). I think next time I might go vegetarian (shock, horror!) and try a potato goz.

At around 3:30 we had afternoon tea to farewell A, who’d been working with us for the last couple of months while some of our team have been on leave. Friday was A’s last day with us. She’d brought in a chocolate, coconut and cherry cake from Michel Patisserie.

We all thought the cake was pretty nice, but A herself reckoned it wasn’t anything amazing. To be honest though, I think a cake would have to be pretty damn disgusting for us to think it was bad! A said she’d selected it purely on appearance – she’d rather liked its toasted coconut flake-studded looks. To a fan of toasted coconut it would probably look pretty spectacular. The cake was covered with a light chocolate butter icing and then the coconut flakes. I love butter icing so much! That was my favourite part of the cake.

The cake itself was moist and soft. I thought there should’ve been a little more cherry in the centre (though if there had been too much cherry it may have then tasted too much like Black Forest cake – and I don’t always like Black Forest because it can get rather soggy because of an abundance of cherry). Although it was a nice rich brown colour, the chocolate cake didn’t have a particularly strong chocolate flavour. A couple of people thought it would’ve been nice to boost the chocolatey-ness of the cake with chocolate curls instead of all that coconut.

Jac got home a little after I did, around half past six, and dinner was served! We had garlic bread (AU$3.50):

Jac got herself Tortellini alla Panna (AU$13.50) – veal and beef filled pasta in a creamy smoked bacon sauce. Jac enjoyed using the garlic bread to soak up every morsel of sauce possible as she ate.

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I had the Spaghetti Marinara (AU$14.00), which is fresh seafood (prawns, squid rings, fish pieces and mussels) in a napolitana sauce with a touch of cream. As usual I got Jac to ask for it minus the mussels. I’ve now eaten this dish three times, dining in and takeaway, and on every occasion the prawns have been way overcooked. Everything else was delicious though – the squid was amazingly tender, and that sauce was really tasty.

We also shared an Italian salad ($6.00), just a garden salad with olives and an Italian vinaigrette. This was tangy and fresh and was a lovely accompaniment to the rich pasta dishes.