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Restaurant name: Newquay International Buffet & Bar
Cuisine: Seafood, mix of Asian and vegetarian
Location: 4 – 6 NewQuay Promenade, Docklands Vic 3008
Telephone: (03) 96703889

Website: http://www.newquaybuffet.com.au/

Overlooking the water and set in a chic and exciting atmosphere, the gourmet buffet of New Quay International Buffet & Bar is sure to impress.

the cuisines feature an exquisite range of international flavours and is perfect place to enjoy a well earned drink.

Environment: Felt really welcomed like a expensive restaurant with a nice cosy feeling and a nice tea light candle lit when you approach your table. Also they had a nice view of some of the boats at the front of restaurant. The waiters were on the ball taking your plates when your finished. The hot food was served in a updated bain marie look to Foodstar. However the chef that you needed to order your wonton soup or pan fried scallops had his headphones on didn’t look professional doing that.

7.5/10

Food: Well nearly tasting all the hot food there, I was pretty impressed with most of them. some of the standard hot food like fried rice, pasta and veggie dish were standard to the taste buds and required a bit more flavour to my liking. The fried food pan fried scallops & deep fried prawns tasted really good with the sauces they provided ‘forgot the name of that sauce ‘
However I was not impressed with the mushroom soup as it tasted like packaging mushroom soup with too much water. The fresh seafood was served cold I did not touch cos I’m not a fan of cold prawns and mussel. However what I liked most was the dessert. The cakes they had display, the chocolate fountain and the ice cream was amazing and satisfying. They also had avaliable heaps of wines on the drinks menue to go with the meal and desert.

Here is the link to their menu:
http://www.newquaybuffet.com.au/pdf/New_Quay_Window_Menu_August_08.pdf

One thing I didn’t like about the bain marie was that it was difficult to open the lid and keep it up with one hand and using then thongs to get the pasta onto the plate without making a mess was a pain.

Main: 6/10
Desert: 8/10

Price: Price was pretty standard for $45 dinner on a Saturday night. To have all you can eat in docklands it was reasonable, otherwise you can you can spend half that amount and go to Foodstar. The price for kids though needs to be looked at again. For 3-10 year olds, it was $31.5 a head. I suggest leaving them home unless you dont feed them for the whole day.

5/10

Location: Extremely easy to find parking as across the road there was a $8 parking all day.

9/10

Overall: All I can say is that they need to work on the hot food just a bit more, but can they can sure satisfy their customers with their desert. I think I ended up eating more desert then the hot food! lol. They also need to work on the price for kids.

Overall: 7.1/10

Leon

Country Of Origin: USA
Scovillle Rating 550000 - 600000
Web Site: http://www.deathsauce.com.au/

I recently have been looking at growing some hot chillies in my soon to be planted vegie patch. While searching for some information on what chillies are going to offer some heat and flavour, I can across an article about a hot sauce so hot, that you can’t even have a tablespoon of the stuff without nearly passing out. Being the fool that I am, I went out and found a bottle of the stuff. Blair’s Megadeath Sauce claims to be 500 times hotter then jalapeños! Upon getting my bottle, the first thing I noticed was the colour. It looked deadly! The next thing to hit me was the smell. It is just unbelievable. Next came the moment of truth, tasting. Now, I consider myself to have quite a high tolerance to spice, but the colour and aroma were enough to worry me. One tiny particle on a piece of garlic bread was enough of a warning to tell me just how hot this extract is. With a bit of encouragement, I doused a 1 1/2 inch by 1 1/2 inch piece of lasagne. I can only describe the taste and heat as absolutely unreal. I have never tasted something so hot. Hiccups followed and my mouth was so sensitive that I could not eat anything else for a good 25 minutes. This extract would be fantastic in a good red sauce or in some tacos. Heat aside; it is a very tasty sauce.

Flavour: 9 / 10

Heat: 10++++++++

Rating: 9.5 / 10

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Welcome to Gluttony! A blog dedicated to fine international cuisine from restaurants around Australia and the globe. The 3 core reviewers for this site are all from Melbourne, Australia. We thought that this blog would be a good place to write down some thoughts about food that we have enjoyed. Guest writers will also drop by to give us their thoughts also.

Reviews will have the following marking criteria:

1. Food - What did the food taste like? What sort of textures and flavours were encountered?
2. Environment - What was the actual restaurant like? How were the staff dressed? Were they courteous?
3. Price - Was the food worth it?
4. Overall - Taking all of the above into account, was the eating experience something that we would recommend for you, the reader?

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Reviewers:

- Dave Pisani
- Eder Ramos
- Nelson Estrada

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