Making an Evening of it.

White Cockatoo Hotel
Terminus Street, Petersham, NSW

What better way to spend a Saturday night then to form a large posse and head down to the White Cockatoo (after spending the day having a few drinkies and playing frisbee in the park).

Anyway... to cut a long story short, there were a few people who had grown tired of hearing about the scary size of the schnitzels served at the White Cockatoo and decided to make the trek down from Newcastle to Sydney to try one out.

I don't know. Even I'm astonished at how they can make something so big from a chicken AND how they make enough money to carry on serving such huge meals. Even being a Saturday, when you would expect a pub would be doing most of it's business, there weren't many people in the pub and by 10pm we were the only people there.


Below are some happy snaps of the evening (click on the pictures to see uber-sized ones):









Antipasto and Florentine (still with the two fried eggs, no less)












Boscaiola, Marinara and Supreme (also evidence of our expertise at the chocolate machine)

Balkan Style

The Europe Grill
506 King Street, Newtown, NSWDate: ooh January?
Type: pork
With: skinless sausages, a piece of lettuce and half a raw white onion.
Cost: err, i can't remember

This place is really not suitable for vegetarians. Macedonian food.... very meaty and potatoey. Also, the restaurant is very dark.... possibly so you don't realise that distinct lack of vegetables.

Anyway, what we have hear was what was called "natural schnitzel" on the menu... there was a Macedonian word for it, which I can't remember.

Pretty awesome tasting though. It was basically flattened and grilled pieces of pork. Nice and tender with a tasty smoked flavour.

I do recommend this place as far as cute little bizarre restaurants go, but make sure you only eat salad for the day before and after.

Stack of Schnitzel

The Orchard Hotel, Chatswood, NSW
Date: February 14th, 2006 (Katrie's work leaving do - she's gone on a schnitzel hunt in China for a year)
Type: Chicken Schnitzel stack
With: salad (cucumber, tomato, lettuce, capsicum) mayonnaise and half a lemon.
Price: um.... about $15? I can't remember, I didn't pay for it.

Review: well... this is one of the worst actual schnitzels I've eaten in a while. I'll give them points for an innovative presentation (cut up and formed into a stack with the salad), but the actual piece of schnitzel itself was burnt and the crumbs weren't sticking to the meat.

Also, I only had a $10 note. But that's OK, because it wasn't even nearly half a good as most of the other schnitzels featured here.

Panania

The Panania Hotel - Panania, Sydney, NSW
Date: 5th Feb 08
Price: $18
Type: Chicken Parmigiana
With: Chips & Salad

Awesome schnitzel, very large pieces, that is one piece of schnitzel, can get chicken or veal, in either regular or parmigiana, chips and salad with it, and balsamic vinegar also available on the salad. Lots of other things on the menu, great atmosphere, right next to panania train station, one of the best schnitzels i've had in a long time!


Reviewer: oRiCLe (Aaron)

Another $5 gem

The Gateway Hotel, Islington (Newcastle)
Date: 8th of January
Price: $5.00!
Type: Chicken
With: Salad, chips and gravy.

This is great, they have $5 meals at the gateway hotel (g-club) now .. one of them being a schnitzel. The best bit is there are no catches, you dont have to get a drink with it and they didn't even charge me extra for gravy!

So this is what you get for $5 .. salad, chips, chicken schnitzel and your choice of sauce .. my friend got mayo. They arn't huge but not bad for 5 bux.

Reviewer: Miss bel

RSL Magic..... well sort of

Chatswood RSL Club, Chatswood, NSWDate: 4th of January
Price: $11.00
Type: Chicken
With: Veggies, lemon, gravy, a slice of tomato and a piece of lettuce.


I know that RSL food is generally cheap and nasty, but this was just terrible.... and not overly cheap either. I can't put my finger on what was so wrong about it because there were too many things.

Lemon AND gravy?

Veggies AND "salad"?

bah!

Although i must say... the carrot were not boiled to oblivion like many club carrots

Note: the beers are cheaper than at any other RSL i've been to (if you're a member)

Avon Valley Inn

Avon Valley Inn "Top Pub" Gloucester

Chicken Schnitzel with mushroom gravy and chips and salad. The best part was the chunky ass mushrooms in the gravy, yum!
I forget how much it was .. well check when I go home tonight ..
Also the schniters was nice and thick..
Review by Miss Bel