Hugos Manly

Shop 1

Manly Wharf

East Esplanade, MANLY

Ph: 02 8116 8555

http://www.hugos.com.au/

Bear Cottage, is the first childrens hospice in New South Wales. A place where children with terminal illnesses can stay with their family from time to time to receive rest & receive medical care in a home like environment.

This is my family's 2nd stay, & the plan was to take us out on a whale watching expedition on a boat, & then lunch on the wharf.

We did spot 2 or 3 whales luckily, so everyone was really excited on the way back.

Bear Cottage is a lovely place to stay, my parents get to relax and so does Annie, with lots of activities, games, and other children to play with. They do a great deal to help us all, its just so great to have a place like this for kids to stay in! Usually Annie stays atleast a week every school holidays, and i try to take time off work to join them :)

So after a chilly morning out on the boat, we headed back to Manly wharf for a much needed lunch! The weather was superb, the sun was out, warming us from the slightly chilly breeze, & we were all starving hehe.

I guess we had a special group booking, as plates of pizza were served to everyone who wanted one, and they kept bringing out pizza after pizza, along with sides of chips & salads.

Pepperoni - pepperoni, tomato, mint & buffalo milk mozzarella

Ham - leg ham off the bone, ricotta, balsamic reduction & mushrooms

Margherita - cherry tomato, fresh buffalo milk mozzarella & basil

Chips with Italian tomato sauce & seeded mustard aioli

Pumpkin - roasted pumpkin, zucchini, sweet & sour onions, gorgonzola & pine nuts

Lamb - slow roasted with potato, fetta, olives, capsicum, onion & chilli

Pork belly - slow roasted pork belly with sweet & sour onions & radicchio

Rocket, pear & parmesan salad with balsamic dressing

Simple Cheese

Mushroom - field mushrooms, taleggio, buffalo mozzarella & basil

The location of the restaurant is beautifully located along the esplanade, with stunning views of the water, small beach, & rich waterfront houses :)

Service was friendly, we did not have to wait long for food, & our cups were constantly re- filled to the tops!

I found the pizza here really light, as in - i could eat quite a few slices, without feeling too fully. The bases were thin & crispy, with lots of topping, so really you were eating more topping then dough - i like that! & also, got to try more than just 2 or 3 different pizza's, we covered about 7 of the 13 pizza's on their menu.

Crust Gourmet Pizza Bar

751 - 753 Smithfield Rd, Bonnyrigg, N.S.W. 2177
(on the corner of Elizabeth Drive and Smithfield Road)
ph: (02) 9610 3333
fax: (02) 9610 0133
http://www.crust.com.au

Twas a Friday night, met up with our new foodie buddies Sam & Julie. Julie finished work late so we ended up ordering our pizza's @ 9.30PM!

Crust had recently opened up, situated 3 streets away from my house, where VIDEO EZY used to be. Next to the Healthy SUBWAY, across from McDonald's, and a Kebab shop within metres as-well. So this joint was a meeting point for car hoons, young hooligans, bikies, & delinquent teens.

Since Rick & I had already had browsed the menu online, we knew exactly what we wanted (and also what we wanted the time after and the time after that - there are soooo many pizza's to choose from - quite overwhelming for the typical Friday night -take-away pizza. But it's not just any normal pizza take out, its G-O-U-R-M-E-T pizza :D


We chose the 'White Anchovy Pizza' : premium italian white anchovies, caperberries, cherry tomatoes and bocconcini, garnished with fresh basil. It was a fairly fishy-tasting-not salty enough- affair. The caperberries added a nice touch though, i don't usually like capers- but having a caperberry in your mouth along with anchovies completely masked out the fishy flavour. I liked the cherry tomatos, how they were cut in half, and the skin kind of crinkled up at the top, and the tomato was cooked through. There was just enough cheese to cover the base, and the base itself was light, crispy at the edges & delicious. It was a nice contrast between our usual fare from Pizza Hut, which was a pleasant surprise since we're used to the fatty-heavy-oily-stomach-bloat-inducing- pizza's from the usual fast food joints.

Our friends chose the Mexican pizza. It had chorizo, spanish onions, roasted red capsicum, jalopenos, & chilli on a refried bean base, topped with fresh avocado salsa. We didn't try any, so no comment. But they did say it was 'not bad'.


WIth one pizza between each couple, we were so far from satisfied, so we ordered another pizza, this time it came out quicker because it was nearing 10.30PM.

Smoked Salmon Pizza - smoked salmon, spanish onion, brie, avocado, caper berries, with a wedge of lemon, cracked pepper, & seasalt. This was the first ever time i had lemon, salt & pepper on my pizza - it was WONDERFUL - i was so amazed by Rick mixing the salt & pepper, in this cool little black device-y thingio (i wish i took a photo of it). This was the best pizza i've had to date, they had just the right amounts of each ingredient per slice, Each bite I had had a bit of everything, the buttery smoked salmon, smooth cheesy brie, onion and caperberry all mixed into one mouthful. It was absolutely fabulously fantastic in my mouth... The salt and pepper made it more flavoursome since I like eating my food with lashings of flavour, the lemon gave it a bit of an extra kick which removed the slightly fishy smell smoked salmon usually emits. This was the perfect pizza, I'm drooling now thinking about it...


After all that, we divided up a little aero chocolate bar for dessert. I haven't had an aero bar in so long. It was so so good to eat those chocolate bubbles!


This finished off our evening of gorging ourselves with pizza. I'd definitely come back again and try each and every pizza I saw on the menu at home with Rick.