Bona Fides Café Restaurant (Sydney)

We walked past Bona Fides next to the Queen Victoria Building often and decided to have dinner there on a Thursday night. The dinner menu had a wide range of pasta and risotto dishes, as well as some ‘Balkan style’ dishes from the grill.

My beef and vegetables soup of the day was generous and was followed perfectly by the rigatoni pasta with pancetta and ricotta cheese. It was a satisfying meal on a cold rainy night.

Details:
Bona Fides Café Restaurant
Next to Queen Victoria Building
70 Druitt Street
Sydney NSW 2000
http://bonafidescafe.com.au/City/About-Us

Yama (Sydney)

Queen Victoria Building is a place where I frequent for shopping, but never dining. Recently we visited Yama, a Japanese café hidden among the jewellery stores on level 2, for a bite to eat.

While the menu presented a large variety of Japanese dishes, the food served is rather westernised. Tempura was done well and portion size generous. However, my katsu curry was on the mild side – even in Japanese curry standards. Service was polite and it was nice to get a free bottle of wine from the credit card dining program.

Details:
Yama Japanese Cafe Restaurant 
2/455 George St 
Sydney NSW 2000 

Tea Room QVB (Let's Do Lunch)

My first private dining experience at the Tea Room allowed me to look at the dining room in daylight (previous occasion was a wedding). The high ceiling adds a greater sense of space to the already large dining room, with views of the busy city life through the little windows on top of QVB.

I had the Let’s Do Lunch pastry-wrapped salmon dish. The fish was cooked perfectly but its natural taste was overpowered by the Middle Eastern flavours. My companion chose the blue-eye trevalla red curry which had a better balance in flavour of seafood and spice.

Details:
The Tea Room QVB
Level 3, North End, Queen Victoria Building
455 George St, Sydney NSW 2000
http://www.thetearoom.com.au/


Let’s Do Lunch - http://www.cravesydneyfoodfestival.com.au/events.php?intcategoryid=51&linkid=101