Sometimes things are just meant to be, a group of us wanted to try La Mint – a Vietnamese-French restaurant. But instead we ended up in Cafe Mint; middle eastern influenced restaurant. That’s not to say it was a bad thing.
Tonight, the restaurant had a warm friendly atmosphere generated by the wooden decor and subdued lighting (which made taking pictures very hard for a novice like me!).
It really wasn’t intentional, but we ended up ordering meat, a lot of meat, starting with the meat platter above consisting of sausages, salami, meat balls, roast meat.
I don’t know if it was because we were having a late dinner at 8pm, but each of us ordered more meat for mains.
I had the lamb shoulder with radish salad and boiled sweet potato. The meat was well cooked and tender to the point of being flaky. It was lightly marinated and I found myself reaching for the rock salt.
The roast duck was similar, well cooked, a lot of meat with small accompanying salad.
The roast lamb with pomegranate was probably my favourite. Tender medium rare slices of tender roast lamb, with a decent side of salad including pomegranate.
We went to the wrong ‘Mint” but it wasn’t such a bad thing. Although I did leave feeling like I’ve had a tad too much meat.
Cafe Mint
579 Crown St
Surry Hills
(02) 9319 0848
Don't kid yourself, those photos make the food look pretty appetising to me! I've been to La Mint which is in East Sydney and the food's definitely worth making the trek out so you must try again!