jennip2

A great little find in amongst the industrial estate of Rowville. We were quite surprised to find a restaurant of this caliber there. They have an extensive menu and meals to suit a range of tastes. IThey are fully licenced so no BYO but they do have a nice little Shiraz labelled for Tosario and quite pleasant for $25 a bottle. I ordered a Thai prawn Salad which was delicious but could have been "padded out" with a bit of greenery. Dessert was banana and sticky rice dumplings with vanilla icecream topped with peanuts at $10.90 a bit on the expensive side for a dessert but very yummy nonetheless. When the final came we were overcharged by $10 according to the menu price when we questioned this they mentioned that we had been asked if we wanted a main or entree but the menu did not mention the difference in price nor were we told the difference. After apologising they refunded the $10 ( after a bit of prompting). Still a lovely meal, lovely staff and we will be back.

I have heard great things about this place and finally dropped in for lunch the other day. I must say I was dissapointed, the menu was not very interesting. I finally settled on a toasted sandwich and my partner had the roast of the day. He asked if they had any horseradish, they didn't have any but offered him chutney instead! . Hardly the same, they managed to provide some mustard. The beef was dry and the veggies didn;t look all that appetising. We had a chai latte which surprisingly was brewed from chai tea, not made with a syrup. With new cafe's popping up all over Belgrave Cafe Green Bean needs to pick up its game.

A star bakery is run by some lovely Cambodians. The guy there is always happy to have a chat about his bread and keen to offer samples. They have a really yummy olive oil bread which he makes. Their pies are all one price and I can recommend their curry pies which have an asian curry style to them rather than the standard english/indian curry powder most bakeries use, Caution, they are a tad on the hot side so if you don't like chilli try their beef and mushroom pies.

We dropped in here for lunch and were the only people in the restaurant, We chose a bento box which came with a miso soup starter and then a great selection of prawn skewers beef teriyaki, salmon sashimi and a serve of boiled rice. All was very yummy and great service considering we were the only ones there! Next time I'm going to try their green tea icecream which you can get for free if you like them on Facebook. We will be back.

We headed to the trout farm to catch some dinner. It's great to know that when taking a child fishing for the first time they are guaranteed to catch something. All graded sizes of rainbow trout, golden trout and salmon are available in different ponds. They have a challenge lake which is more like real fishing as it is not very well stocked so treat the kids to some "patient" fishing then head off to the ponds for a quick catch. Everything you catch you have to pay for, we saw some people shocked when they caught 2 large salmon 3 kilo's each and had to pay $24 a kilo for their catch. We set in our mind we wanted a dinner plate size trout each and we stuck with that, They clean the fish for free and charge extra if you want them filletted. Nice for an afternoon activity. For younger kids there is a playground, mini golf course and bbq's galore ( although they all looked very tired!) A revamp to the place would make it a much better place to visit, however we most certainly enjoyed our freshly caught trout for dinner. Yumm!!