For their ritual monthly night out together, the
Ladies of Connect met at the Pacific Restaurant & Café, in the centre of
Groningen, which opened its doors in in June 2006..
With an Australian style interior and matching cuisine, the lunch menu offered a variety of dishes to choose form. For a starter, instead of pumpkin or oriental soup
one could choose Carpaccio Aboriginal with kangaroo meat followed by Ozzie
Ostrich a ‘tender Ostrich steak served with a delicious roasted garlic
sauce’. For dessert, chocolate features heavily on the menu (not that
we were complaining), but also includes a couple of fruit desserts as well.
For groups of 15 or more it is possible to
experience the Pacific Food Adventure with a three-course menu featuring flavours, herbs and spices from the
Pacific region.
There were varied reactions to the restaurant and
its food resulting in the decision to start up ‘The Connect Gourmet Guide’.
Each Connect lady present has given the restaurant a mark on a scale of one to
five. Areas judged were food, atmosphere/staff and value for money. At the end
of this article you can see the results of our first Gourmet Guide. So a word
of advice to all restaurants – if you see a large group of ladies approaching
your premises, it may be worth your while to pull out all the stops!
The Pacific Restaurant & Café can be found Oosterstraat 65-67, 9711 NS Groningen.
Website here
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