Searock Grill on The Rocks

Sydney - What a beautiful morning in Sydney - cold and windy. Instead of having breakfast around our hotel - we took a taxi to our customer - Optus which has a huge campus and many restaurants and cafe.

Darling Harbour from my window

For dinner, we went to The Rocks - a beautiful location along Circular Quay overlooking the Harbour bridge. We chose this restaurant Searock Grill - hoping they have a wide selection of seafood but was limited and instead we went for their steaks. We were not disappointed with our selection - it was exquisite and succulent.

Sydney local beer

This is brewed by Rocks Brewing Company - an Australian owned and brewed company based out of Sydney. A refreshing and light beer, just nice for our steak and oysters. We ordered 5 Kilpatrick and 5 natural Oysters.

Kilpatrick Oysters

Natural Australian oysters

Lesley steak

220g Eye fillet medium rare, with mushroom sauce and nice bowl of fresh salad.
A beef tenderloin, known as Eye fillet in Australia and New Zealand.

My Scotch Fillet

250g Scotch fillet, with mushroom sauce and also very fresh bowl of salad

I had to check online what is Scotch fillet and it is actually a term used only in Australia for Ribeye. The beef steak from the Rib of the beef rib. The difference is obvious by taste and not by sight as both look char-grilled from the outside. I took bite off Lesley tenderloin and it obviously tasted tender!

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