Les Amis Au Jardin

The afternoon before the dinner at Mortons, we celebrated the first birthday of the daughter of a couple very dear to us - they were instrumental at ensuring the errant keyboard player at our wedding didn't continue playing our opening song in the wrong key. The party for the clueless one-year old was at Au Jardin at the Botanic Gardens - it was a great party, too bad the VIP probably can't remember any of it (usually this applies to old people too, when they get drunk).

We were on the second floor of the restored bungalow.

Even the decoration looked good enough to eat.

The savouries from top to bottom: smoked salmon sandwich, prawn beignet, scrambled egg with caviar and mini caesar salad tartlet. They were pretty good, actually, especially with the Cloudy Bay that was served (not pictured). The mini caesar salad tart was very interesting.

The sweets from left to right: financiers, almond and raspberry crumble, berries tartlet, chocolate tartlet and opera cake. The almond and raspberry crumble was a winner, particularly with pink Vevue Cliquot champagne (not pictured).

Birthday cake: strawberries and cream from The Patissier. This was easily one of the best non-chocolate cakes I have ever eaten. It went beautifully with coffee.