A weekend in Daylesford

We have just spent the weekend exploring beautiful Daylesford, or more accurately we have just spent the weekend eating our way around the delights of Daylesford!  It was freezing - when we left today it had reached a high of 4 degrees - but Saturday was gorgeous and sunny once the fog cleared and we meandered along the streets visiting craft shops and galleries, stopping frequently to warm up in the cafes.  Some of the highlights are below...

Dinner at A Perfect Drop on Friday night was excellent.  We shared this amazing dessert, which included a chocolate brownie, halva ice-cream, Persian fairy floss, pistachios, Turkish delight, rose water (I think?)...not sure what else but it was good.

The brownie is hiding on the bottom under the ice-cream

Stopped for coffee, chai and cake at Frangos & Frangos.  My flourless orange cake with double cream was divine.

Our dinner venue on Saturday night was Mercato, which I highly recommend if you are after a special meal.  The staff were fantastic and the food was delicious.  We both were thrilled with our dishes (I had braised duck, Dave had the beef) and finished off the meal by sharing their dark chocolate fondant with prune and Armagnac ice-cream and hazelnut praline.  

That's my duck in the background

Breakfast this morning was at the Gourmet Larder - I had the rice pudding with rhubarb, apple and ginger, Dave had a fantastic looking huevos egg bake dish with chorizo.

We left Daylesford soon after breakfast as it was too wet to walk off some of the food we'd eaten around the lake as we'd planned, so headed home to relax some more.  A great weekend!