Pittwater Life May 2018 Issue

Dining Guide
Dining Guide
May's best restaurants, functions, events and reader deals...
Bistro 61
Avalon Beach RSL
1 Bowling Green Lane
Avalon Beach
OPENING HOURS
Open 7 days
Lunch 12pm-2:30pm
Dinner 5:30-8:30pm
CUISINE
Modern Aust / pub food
PRICE RANGE
Meals $8-$30
Specials $12-$15
BOOKINGS 9918 2201
Avalon Beach RSL’s Bistro 61
is a great place to head for
a local meal, offering tasty
modern Australian dishes at
affordable prices.
Book a table for lunch on
Mother's Day and enter their
'Mum's Mega Raffle' with more
than $1000 in prizes to be
won.
There will be hampers for
mum, plus beauty treatments,
gift vouchers and more.
Music in May (9pm-12am)
includes Coast & Ocean
(Saturday 5th) and the Vicky
Turner Band (Saturday 12th).
And don't forget to check
out their new Stella Room!
Happy Hour is every
Monday, Tuesday & Friday from
4-6pm.
Now open for breakfast
from 9am to 11.30am.
Open for lunch and dinner
seven days, with extensive
outdoor dining areas, Bistro
61 offers a variety of specials
(lunch and dinner) during the
week, including $12 tacos
(Tues), $15 Chicken Schnitzels
(Wed), 2-4-1 pizzas (Thurs),
and a $20 burger + beer (Fri).
Seniors are well catered
for – there are daily Seniors
specials, including beerbattered
flathead – plus they
do a $5 kids meals on Sundays!
(There’s a playground, too.)
From the menu, chef
Mitch recommends his twist
on nachos – pulled beef and
blackbeans with chipotle, corn
chips, guacamole, Danish fetta
and coriander.
Members get discounts on
meals purchased. Membership
starts from $5.50.
The club is licensed, with
no BYO. Bookings online or
call 9918 2201 – large groups
welcome.
Hong Kong
Chinese Restaurant
332 Barrenjoey Rd,
Newport
OPENING HOURS
Dinner Tues-Sun 5pm
CUISINE
Chinese & Asian
PRICE RANGE
Entrees $5-20
Mains $12.90-26.50
*Deliver Whale Beach - Narrabeen
BOOKINGS 9997 4157
LIC
BYO
All
Book a table at this popular
Newport eatery in April and
your family is guaranteed
a great night out with a
feast for the eyes and the
tastebuds.
Order ahead for their
wonderful Peking Duck which
is offered as a dine-in-only
special Thursdays through
Sundays in Autumn.
There are two traditional
courses: Peking Duck
pancakes & duck sang choy
bow (bookings essential;
mention the ad when you call).
This long-established
restaurant on the eastern
side of Barrenjoey Rd has
an extensive menu based
on traditional flavoursome
Cantonese with touches of
spicy Szechuan and other
Asian dishes and fresh
seasonal vegetables.
Entrees start at just $6
while mains are great value
too, starting at $16.80.
The menu ranges from
adventurous, like a Sizzling
Szechuan-style platter of
king prawns and fillets of
chicken, to contemporary,
featuring spicy salt and
pepper king prawns, to
traditional, with favourites
including Mongolian lamb,
Honey king prawns and
P
New dishes are introduced
regularly so check out the
blackboard specials.
The team are only too
happy to home deliver your
meal, with a range that takes
in Narrabeen to the south to
Palm Beach in the north.
Fully licensed or BYO.
Barrenjoey
Bistro
Club Palm Beach
1087 Barrenjoey Rd,
Palm Beach
BISTRO OPENING HOURS
Lunch 11:30am-2.30pm
Dinner 6pm-8.30pm
PRICE RANGE
salad (Thursdays) and tempura
fish and chips with salad
(Fridays), except public hols.
The Members’ lucky badge
draw is held Wednesday and
Friday night (every 30 mins
between 5pm-7pm), and
jackpots by $100 each week.
Enjoy Trivia Night from
5.30pm on Wednesdays, plus
Bingo 10am on Fridays.
The club has a courtesy
bus that makes regular runs
Wednesdays, Fridays and
Saturdays from 4.30pm to 9pm.
Ring to book a pick-up.
The Mirage
Restaurant
at Metro Mirage
Hotel Newport
2 Queens Parade West,
Newport
CUISINE
Modern Australian
PRICE RANGE
Breakfast – $25 adults,
$12.50 kids (5-12)
Dinner – entrees
from $7-$17,
Mains from $21-$30,
Desserts from $13-$25
BOOKINGS 9997 7011
Local residents are finding
Lunch and dinner
the peaceful ambience
specials $13.50
of The Mirage restaurant
overlooking spectacular
BOOKINGS 9974 5566
Pittwater, the perfect
Head to Club Palm Beach, waterfront venue to enjoy
located just a short stroll from breakfast or dinner.
Palm Beach Wharf, for Mother's Located in boutique Metro
Day lunch on May 13.
Hotel Mirage Newport, The
Enjoy a special menu from Mirage restaurant is a popular
11.30am through 3pm – no choice for breakfast from
bookings taken.
7-10am seven days a week,
Enjoy a round-trip cruise on offering a fixed-price full hot
Pittwater followed by lunch at and cold buffet, including a
the club ($25pp groups of 10+). selection of cereals, seasonal
Barrenjoey Bistro is open fruit and freshly made juice,
for lunch (11.30am to 2.30pm) toast and pastries and
and dinner (6pm to 9pm) seven sausages, eggs, has browns,
days, plus there's a Snack Menu bacon and tomato served with
available 2.30pm-6pm.
the Chef’s Special of the day.
The Bistro serves top-value a The Mirage restaurant is
la carte meals plus daily $13.50 also open for dinner from
specials of roasts (Mondays), Monday to Saturday from
rump steak with chips and 5.30pm – 8.30pm and can
salad (Tuesdays), chicken be hired, along with all the
schnitzel with chips and salad hotel’s function rooms, for
(Wednesdays), homemade private and corporate events
Honey chicken.
gourmet pies with chips and of between 60-110 guests.
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