Lunch! At Cafe Vue at Heide!

As time winds down, today was a hastily assembled lunch at Cafe Vue at Heide followed by a look at the various buildings and poke around the kitchen gardens. We decided to try and get the lunch done early at 12pm. Luckily I was able to get up moderately late and WALK down there so not only did I get a ruvely lunch but I got some morning exercise to boot!
I thought I had pictures of the exterior but it seems I don't so here's to jumping straight to the food! Because we booked, we were limited to the Menu du Jour. Now, some people might baulk at the idea of $55 for lunch but seriously people....$55 for a three course lunch!!! WHICH WAS AWESOME!!!


For entree, 

 

All the others opted for the soft-shell crab and...I can't remember what the green stuff was but it was damn tasty.

 

However because I love liver and sugary bread, I chose the Chicken liver parfait with brioche. 

 

Cute! 

For our mains, we had a bit more variety with our choices.

Rach and I both wanted fish. Luckily there were two fish options on the menu. I had the confit ocean trout with garden vegetables and green sauce. The contrast of the lightly cooked and smooth textured fish with the crunchy and slightly acidic vegetables and sauce - naice!

 

The Sea Bream with beurre blanc and different garden vegetables. Mmmm creamy sauce with the sweet fish flesh *gargle*

The guys being guys, they had the roast wagyu beef with yorkshire pudding and other baby garden vegetables. Rare beef! *thumbs up*

Lunch dessert might seem like an extravagance to some people but really, I don't understand why such deliciousness like our

Madeleines with Lemon curd

 

or pistachio souffle (check out that height!)

 

which Rach enjoyed digging into (P.S. Dave got macarons) 

are limited to being nighttime foods given that it would be much more nutritionally beneficial for us to eat sweeties during the daytime so we can work them off!


And work them off we did! Heide started off the (then) semi-rural home of John and Sunday Reed, art patrons during the mid 20th-century, and a sort of artists commune developed at the site, and it's now a modern art museum (plus awesome cafe). It consists of three buildings; the original weatherboard house - very cool, and currently featuring the works of Mirka Mora, the second specially designed Heide II house that doubled as home and art gallery, and the recent Heide III complex. Some ink drawings by original members of the Heide artistic group, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester were on display in Heide III, as well as an exhibition on the photrographs of Carol Jerrems. 

Admittedly, despite the proximity of Heide to my homie, I haven't been to the gallery in years, preferring instead to poke around the sculpture garden on the grounds and, in particular, the kitchen gardens planted by Sunday Reed which are now by the cafe. It was quite fun walking around the patches trying to figure out what was what. Lemon balm! Also, because the grounds have been kept semi-rural, there were some native wildlife poking about! 

Some local wildlife!