Yes we ended up back at Ile de Païn. We said the other day that we would come back for lunch. I won’t go into a rave again about how good they are – that much we already know. I’ll just leave you with some photos and a few descriptions of what we had.
For drinks Caroline had the home made lemonade. It was quite sharp, not particularly ‘ade’y, but it was refreshing (as Caroline puts it “lemony goodness”). I had the cold version of the coffee I had the the other day Ca-phe nau da, which is a Vietnamese drink of coffee, cream and condensed milk. It was very nice.
For lunch Caroline had the toasted ham and cheese.
And I had the beef burger. You can’t really see the patty for all the onions (which we so nice and sweet), so I took another photo once I had cut into it.
The meat looks a little rare in the photo, but it isn’t. I wasn’t asked how I would like it, but it came medium-well. The redness in the photo can only be from something that was in the ingredients because the burger was cooked perfectly for my liking.
Afterwards we had another drink, this time Iced Café Mocha. It was not milky or sweet. In fact any sweetness that was in the drink probably came from the chocolate, but this also made it a bit bitter. It was however a very nice drink and I’d order it again.
The star of the show was actually something that Caroline noticed while we were eating and upon investigation we found that they were indeed macaro(o)ns. This is something that is common in Australia, not that we knew to have them while we were there, but he had seen them. In South Africa, or at least in Durban we had never seen them and have been wanting to try them for a little while. When we saw these we instantly snapped them up. There was only one flavour on the shelf, and there were only four left, so we grabbed them all. In our haste we forgot to ask what flavour they were, but we can conclude that they were vanilla with a chocolate and icing sugar dusting, and a butter cream filling. There was a distinct marzipan flavour inside but this was probably just due to the inclusion of almonds which I believe (not sure) is a normal ingredient.
Note: I spelled Macaro(o)ns with a (o) because I believe they are called Macaroons here, and Macarons in Australia. I suppose this is similar to us calling samoosas samoosas where in the UK they call them samosas.
LOCATION
Ile de Païn
Long Street
Thesen Islands Harbour Town
Knysna
Tel: 044-302-5707
Email: office@iledepain.co.za
Website: www.iledepain.co.za
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