Helen RandellStar of Greece - review
May 19th 2011 08:03
Link: starofgreececafe.com.au/
For a friend’s birthday recently, we had the chance to visit The Star of Greece for lunch.
Positioned on the foreshore at beautiful Port Willunga, the venue is really more of a tin shed than a restaurant, with a cheap and cheery looking interior featuring colourful chairs and old bottles. Luckily though, you don’t spend much of your time looking inside – it’s all about the view.
Seated against one of the windows, we watched as the sun sat high in the sky for our lunch, and later moved down to shine through the autumn clouds and reflect onto the water.
Between us we ordered the barramundi, the whiting, the steak and the duck, and for sides we ordered some delicious duck fat potatoes and a greek salad…. actually, we ordered two of the duck fat potato sides – and they were spectacular. I had the duck, which consisted of a pan fried breast as well as a twice cooked leg, which was beautifully tender and just fell off the bone. The dish was served with date puree, candied fennel and croissant and almond crumb.
Mr Rough Cooking thoroughly enjoyed his crumbed King George Whiting, though he felt there was a little too much parsley involved in the crumb. For dessert, we shared a couple of plates, including a beetroot parfait and also a watermelon illusion. The watermelon illusion is actually three different icecreams, one green pistachio, on red raspberry and one white vanilla, spiked with dark chocolate ‘seeds’. The parfait was an interesting one. Neither sweet, nor particularly savoury, the other odd thing about it was that it wasn’t really cold either. The parfait really just dissolved in your mouth, leaving you with an aftertaste of beetroot, which was not unpleasant though a bit strange. The parfait was served with chocolate, raspberry gel and beetroot sherbert. Mr Rough Cooking opted for a cheese platter instead, deciding on the French Brie. He was again slightly disappointed that the cheese had not been bought up to room temperature before being plated, so there wasn’t that full depth of flavour.
Tallying up to a bit over $60 each (including drinks) The Star of Greece is not a cheap lunch out – however, it is not overpriced. For the quality and taste it really is worth it. The staff, although not outwardly rude, don’t seem all that excited to be there, and that did put a slight dampner on the outing. Overall, this little foodie rates it quite highly. I would go back for a special occasion – perhaps during the warmer months so we could sit outside and enjoy the natural surrounds a bit more.
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