Sunday Roast at COL

COL has a small menu for Sunday Roast every last Sunday of the month. It starts at noon and ends at 3pm. There's a 2.5-hour free flow for the alcohol of your choice, but you'll need to do 6 glasses to justify the price. Be warned that if you sit outdoors, it is SIZZLING. The corridor tables and chairs face the morning sun till about noon. The ceiling fans provide that bit of moving air, but are too high to actually cool. Bring your own fans.

The menu still held their usual pork and bacon, and also beef burgers, salad, vegetarian tomato and cheese tagliatelle and grilled octopus. But I was there for the roast — a Margaret River Stockyard rump of beef, slow roasted in beef fat, garlic and rosemary. I love Yorkshire pudding. Love the fluffy emptiness of it. Heh. I was very pleased with lunch.

There was a wagyu sanchoku prime rib from Stanbroke Queensland, but that didn't come in slices — it would be a supplement of 450g or so. That would be humongous. The husband took an organic half chicken brined for 12 hours and brushed with confit garlic oil. He considered having that grilled cabbage with harissa and yoghurt too, but it would be too much food. We had gone out to sea earlier, on a friend's yacht. While we needed this late lunch, the sun and sea spray oddly was tiring. So we weren't all that hungry. 

Didn't bother with dessert. We were too stuffed. The dessert selections had sticky date pudding and freshly baked madeleines sounded pretty decent! But not today. I didn't even bother with a second glass of prosecco. It was wayyyy too hot out here.