Irish Bears celebrating St Patrick's Day in Oslo!
Due to the number of people with Irish ancestry in Australia (which doesn't include me!), St Patrick's Day is always widely celebrated with lots of jollity and green beer! It also seems to be a very popular time of year for birthdays (perhaps having something to do with being nine months after the official start of winter in Australia). Today I took some time out from the recently relentless pace of my volunteer work for Ski Patrol to enjoy a nice lunch with friends at the RACV Club in central Melbourne. The ambience of the Members' Dining Room is airy and functional, with white tablecloths and large comfortable leather chairs. The 'silver service' from the waiting staff was polite and faultless. I enjoyed a tender and tasty rib eye fillet, accompanied by sparse 'nouvelle cuisine' vegetables, a dob of mustard and a skimpy complimentary green salad, so that side of things could have been done better ($34.50). The rich chocolate dessert (individual serves of a melt-in-the-mouth chocolate mousse cake on a crunchy biscuit base and topped with a rich dark chocolate ganache sauce) was suitably decadent and filling ($15.00). Although served a little cold, the quality of the coffee served cappuchino-style in small white cups, was excellent, and accompanied by small and tasty hand-made hazelnut and chocolate pralines. All in all a pleasant dining experience, and no need for dinner tonight! As they say, "everyone is Irish on St Patrick's Day"!
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