If you’re a reader of other Sydney food blogs you’ll realise this post is late(ish). 3 days may not be much in the real world, but it definitely is in the blogosphere lol.
I’ve just had a Balmain/bakery oriented weekend, starting with a breakfast on Saturday, which I’ll post later:), and a trip to Adriano Zumbo, followed on Sunday with…….Adriano Zumbo again, this time with fellow Sydney food bloggers.
SATURDAY
The new collection at Adriano Zumbo is aptly titled – “Please sir, can I have some more!” and is a spectacular array of mouth watering desserts. I hada quick looksee on Saturday morning to give myself a heads up (and also to satisfy a post breakfast sweet tooth lol). Sindel, Madam Saucy and I took quite a while trying to decide what we wanted.
I’ve just had a Balmain/bakery oriented weekend, starting with a breakfast on Saturday, which I’ll post later:), and a trip to Adriano Zumbo, followed on Sunday with…….Adriano Zumbo again, this time with fellow Sydney food bloggers.
SATURDAY
The new collection at Adriano Zumbo is aptly titled – “Please sir, can I have some more!” and is a spectacular array of mouth watering desserts. I hada quick looksee on Saturday morning to give myself a heads up (and also to satisfy a post breakfast sweet tooth lol). Sindel, Madam Saucy and I took quite a while trying to decide what we wanted.
What’s on offerMingled in with the newbies are some remnants from the previous collection, including the green Tuk Tuk Nothing.
Scrolling to the right…I ID the Charles du Jour as a target for the foodblogger event, The intriguing baubles are enough to suck me in, I get a White Christmas/Wedding Cake vibe lol.
And right again…I can see the successor to the Tuk Tuk Nothing, it’s pink (always a good sign with me), but has no description tag. I ask the lady behind the counter and she tells me she has no idea what it is either and is also waiting for a tag lol. The mystery!
I’ve been craving cheesecake for quite some time now, only to be greeted with old/dry looking cheesecake everywhere I turn. Awkward. But not here!!! I choose the Miss Marrple Cheesecake and carefully bring it home:)
Miss Marple CheesecakeOrange cheesecake with orange strawberry compote, cream cheese crème legere with crepe and maple glaze.
Apologies but this is a (slightly) erroneous shot. For the “attention to detail” types out there, there are actually white chocolate slivers pieced on the ends like bookends, but I may have eaten them on the way home….
A gorgeous dessert - satisfied that craving quick smart.
Sindel chose the Chocolate Fondant, but we got to that before the camera could;)
Onto Sunday!
Firstly a big “Thank you!” to Reem for organising us:)
This is the first foodbloggers meet I’ve been to and I had a fabulous time. It’s great to be able to put faces to the names I’m so used to online. It’s a great crowd and quite a spectacle at times – cameras and desserts galore. Herr Moutarde graciously accompanied me and we had a decadent breakfast to start our Sunday:) Being me, I spent a fair bit time chatting which subsequently caused a drop in photo quality/quantity. This unfortunately means my snaps are incomplete for the entire collection. Not to worry! There were so many of us you’ll see pics all over the net!
Attendees:
Reem: I am obsessed with food
Helen: Grab Your Fork
Suze: Chocolatesuze
Karen: Citrus and Candy (my new designated camera buddy lol)
Lorraine: NotQuiteNigella
Richard: Herecomesthefood
The team from Eatshowandtell (Howard, Linda, Teresa)
Simon: Simon Food Favourites
Plus a few others that popped in as I was leaving and sadly did not get to meet. So, where do you put a gaggle of snap happy food bloggers?? In the nearby Adriano Zumbo Café Chocolat of course! This man is slowly but surely creating an empire. Luckily for the rest of us, Reem has managed to secure us a cosy little alcove in this place where we can rest, sample and photograph our desserts in peace:)
The Table
No doubt place to be: seating AND food:)
Charles du JourTart pate sucree, vanilla ganache, vanilla crème Chantilly, vanilla water bursts, vanilla glacage.
Helen beat me to this beauty, and generously divided it up so we could have a bite, (foodbloggers are a generous breed). It really is as good as it looks.
Choccies!Herr Moutarde and I couldn’t resist the mass of chocolates ordering counter. Guess who ate more?
PARIS – La Vie en Rose
Rose crème brulee, raspberry sorbet balls, fresh lychees, rose macarons served with a strawberry tapioca shake.
It became evident to me that the mass purchasing had led to the group with samples of nearly all available bakery treats. I graciously stepped forward to choose an offering from the café menu (my life is tough). The counter boy (Charles) at the bakery had recommended a dish with creamed rice and fruit salad, which sounded amazing but alas, I was told there was none left when I got back to the cafe:( I ended up choosing this beautiful concoction, named after one of my favourite cities. With scattered rose petals, it’s easily the prettiest thing in sight.
The studioThe sheer number of desserts led to a makeshift studio being set up at the nearby table, which was quickly swarmed by photohungry bloggers.
Past jobsKaffir lime and ginger pannacotta, black sticky rice pudding, exotic fruit jelly and palm sugar marscapone.
Framboise MillefeuilleRaspberry coulis and marscapone with caramelised puff pastry and biscuit jaconde.
Zumbo the KidVegemite bavaroise, peanut butter crème legere, raspberry jelly, chocolate peanut glacage, peanut feullitine, flourless chocolate biscuit
Wheely Wildly WendyFresh roasted peach in a tonka bean crème legere and sandwiched between two almond dacquoise disks and rolled in almond crumble.
Yum! I remember a few months ago, Daisy Moo and I split the green Tuk Tuk Nothing, much to her dismay - she’s not of a fan of coconut, which is beautifully laced through the green version of Zumbo’s wheel. I’ll be pestering her to share this with me next time we go;)
UZCBiscuit macaron, sweet corn jelly, saffron bavaroise, vanilla brulee.
Another dessert I quite enjoyed was the rice pudding éclair that the lovely Suze brought along, a simple and lighter combination of rice pudding and cinnamon in an éclair form which I could easily have eaten all day. Sweet Karen brought along the cheesecake and Cassius, while Richard also gave me a bite of another café creation called It’s a Macaron and Not a Hamburger. Check out their blogs for photos:) So many things to try!!!!
The new collection will be available until the 22nd of May 2009, which gives us all plenty of time to try them all again, and again….and again:)
Adriano Zumbo Patissier
296 Darling St
Balmain, NSW, 2041
Open 7 days
Phone: (02) 9810 7318
Adriano Zumbo Café Chocolat
308 Darling St
Balmain, NSW, 2041
(inside Balmain Mall)
Adriano Zumbo Café Chocolat
308 Darling St
Balmain, NSW, 2041
(inside Balmain Mall)
Open 7 days
Phone: (02) 9555 1199 
8 comments:
What a pity you didn't try my Wheely Wildy Wendy, that got divvied up and eaten by many, I assumed you were among them! It was rather nice indeed. Nice to have met you!
great blog write up. will add your link to my blog review. was good to meet you.
see u soon
s :-)
Good fun and finally got to meet you ^^!
I think it would be better to get the wheely wildy wendy by urself because u wont really want to share it that much haha or maybe I am just too greedy :P
Ooh camera buddy...I like that :) It was your fault that I discovered the Paris dessert and now I can't stop thinking about it! We'll have to do it again soon yeah?
The Charles du Jour was amazing wasn't it? And Zumbo twice in one weekend! What a great idea!
mmm cake how i wish i lived closer to balmain.. great to finally meet you dude!
Lorraine: I know!! I think I went to get my spoon then got sidetracked with chatting lol.
Simon: Great to meet you too, not to mention I know have another blog to read (always a good thing lol)
Richard: Thanks for planting that seed into my head, now I risk looking like a pig lol (meanwhile drooling at prospect)
Karen: Oh yeh we can do it again:) I should make more of an effort to leave my inner city bubble sometimes lol.
Helen: Yes it was delish! Kudos to you for managing to gracefully divide it without smashing the entire thing up lol (likely to happen with clumsy me).
Suze: Me too! Looking forward to the next big catch up:)
It was lovely to meet you last sunday! Must do more of these foodie things!
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