MYKONOS ANNIVERSARY DINNER

It’s been 2 years since we first hit the shores of Mykonos together and to celebrate this moment we thought we would hit one of the Greek restaurants in Sydney. After researching we thought we would hit "The Greek Islands Tavern" in Earlwood.

Arriving to this restaurant we were greeted by two Asian girls. We both thought shit we picked a place that is run by Asians instead of Greeks. Luckily within minutes we realized that it was all good.

We got shown to our table, which was in some little squashed up corner next to a wall. The restaurant was packed to the bone. Once you were in your seat you knew that you weren’t going to move out of it. Next to us on the wall was a map of Greece, the Greek Islands and Turkey to which we became obsessed with. Every time I turned up head to look at the map I spent another 10minutes studying it. By the end of the night I could have drawn that map myself for crying out loud.

Looking at the menus we decide that we had to have half of the menu so it was better to order a whole lot of mezes than to order two main meals. Instead we went with the BBQ octopus, taramosalata dip, traditional Greek salad, Spinach and Cheese triangles and one major meal meal.

Tradional Greek Salad

Taramosalata Dip

BBQ Octopus

Lamb & Pasta

The Taramosalad Dip was absouletely beautiful. You could run you tongue up and down the plate searching for more. I could definately overdose on this dip. The octopus had arrived. This was nice as well but for some reason it was abit dry for my liking. I think it needed abit of sauce. Better still I should have dipped it into the taramosalata dip and shoved it into my mouth.

After stuffing ourselves to the max we knew we had to order dessert. Without argument we ordered Galatoboureko. For those that haven’t tried this shame on you. It’s the best combination of filo pastry and custard saturated with syrup. God writing this now makes me feel like it. Accompanying this dessert was traditional Greek coffee, well double for some.

Oishii Got thirsty

The entire dinner thing came to an end at approx. 10pm. Feeling it was too early in the night to go home we quickly raced into the car and started driving randomly. That is after finding our way out of that car park. We drove past Earlwood RSL, which looked really nice, centered on the water. At this point we decided to follow the car in front of us for the next 10minutes until we realized we had no idea where the hell we were or where the hell we were going.

Apart of the Map

We didn’t seem to care as we had the music pumping in the car. Now let me explain something. We were driving to Crows Nest a while ago and nutbush city limits came on the radio. So we immediately started pumping this out of the car when Oishii decides to have a laughing fit that most people pump R&B or Dance music out of the car we were pumping Nutbush. So to add to this Oishii remixed a Rave CD for us that featured Nutbush, Get Into the Groove, Nutbush, Wake me up before you go go, Nutbush, Hey Mickey, Nutbush and did I mention Nutbush?

We ended up near Redfern still pumping Nutbush before doing a quick lap around uni we ended up at Broadway shopping center thinking we could catch a movie. All the sessions were finished so we jumped back into the car and started pumping Nutbush out of the shopping centre until we hit Leichhardt. Once we hit Norton St, windows were down and Nutbush was on repeat until we came to minor complete stop outside of Mythos before turning the volume up further. We did two happy laps on Norton St running amock before heading to Haberfield.

I still don’t understand why the hell we went to haberfield as neither of us could have eaten or drinken a thing. We ended up at a café and within minutes ordered coffee and canoli. The deal was we weren’t going home before midnight. God if we were in Mykonos we would be waking up around now to go clubbing. The canoli arrived and we started breaking it up in pieces and shoving it into our coffees. What the? You may say. But trust me when I was in Santorini they did this in a coffee shop I went to and I’m still craving for that coffee.

The waiters started to pack the restaurant up when all of a sudden I spotted something. For a minute I thought it could be Fred. I was in too much of a shock that all I could say was "Oh my god, Oh my god". This is when Oishii turns around and practically screams "Holy Fuck"!

Within a split second we both burst out into tears. The worst part was there was no way of stopping us laughing.

What were we laughing at you may ask? This woman was walking out of the café dressed in a big bird costume practically. It was worst than a white duster or anything Fred has ever worn. The white jacket was 15 times her size and looked like she plucked 30 – 40 chickens to make the jacket. Who the hell walks around wearing shit like that?

The worst part was the woman must have heard us and she was like less than a metre away but seriously if your going to dress like that then you deserve to be laughed at. If anyone has seen Fred’s gorilla costume, then think that 6 times in white.

We both couldn’t stop laughing and we knew we had to get up and leave. We tried getting a photo but because the restaurant had already packed up we couldn’t get much but the chairs stacked up in front of us.

Thanks for the memory Big Bird. I wonder if she’s a local there?

Hidden Big Bird behind chairs