Saints - Cafe, Restaurant & Bar
6 Jacks Pass Road,
Hanmer Springs
Phone: 03-315-5262,
Web: www.saintshanmer.co.nz/
Golly - sometimes life gets in the way of living!! It has been ages since we went out - let alone eating a garlic bread from a Cafe or such!! That said - occasionally we buy a ready made version from our normal super market, and - as they say - this is another story for another time !
This time however, we decided to have a romantic (translate NO cooking ) weekend away from home! A real treat!! To this end we booked a place at Saints in Hanmer!! And yes - one does have to book as we found out, while eating there (and they do 2 seating's) as it was full for the 6pm seating!!!
The menu had two options:
GARLIC LOAF
Our celebrated garlic loaf accompanied by our basil pesto & sweet chilli dipping sauce.
$ 14.90
and
SAINTS FLAT BREAD
Freshly rolled 8-inch Saints pizza base topped with fresh garlic, rosemary, mozzarella
& Parmesan cheese.
$ 16.90
Now - you understand -a LOAF!! At times these were so large that they resembled a rugby ball!! For two people - you are sated before your mains arrives - not what we wanted! So we picked the Flat Bread - full well knowing it is not our preferential Garlic Bread-style!! At least we know what we were getting!!
It duly arrived - A F T E R - the waiter brought out a tiny bowl of warm water with a slice of lemon in it!! Ignoramus that I am thus my darling wife educated me by saying: "it is NOT for drinking" - rather for a quick dip/wash of the fingers - should there be an excess of oil dripping . . . . - Nice touch!!
The Pizza base was fine - hot touch initially and had plenty of cheese flavor - which seemed to overpower / distract from the Garlic flavor!! Typical of Pizzas - they get a cut when fresh out of the oven - you can see the slices - and they kind of semi-rejoin by the time they get to the table so we had to break some gently of!! No artistic arrangements as sometimes is the case!!
On reflection - there was still plenty to eat - so maybe as a volume thing - it might rival the loaf???? Also - you could easily sell/advertise this as a 'garlic pizza' - given the two flavors / and two typical pizza cheese's as toppings . . . .
| Presentation | 1 out of 5 |
| Quantity | 2 out of 5 |
| Taste: | 3 out of 5 |
| Quality | 3 out of 5 |
| Overall score: | 9 (out of poss 20) |
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