It was only going to be a matter of time before I had my first drink of 2008. As most people will know my allergy to alcohol means that I don’t drink that much but how I could resist have an Espresso Martini at 1 degree tonight with Jen and James? 🙂

1 degree is a small cosy bar locate on the river at Brisbane’s Eagle Street Pier that offers drinks and dining. Their cocktail menu is very impressive and contained quite a few cocktails you don’t see on the regular cocktail menu. Its a good place to meet and have pre-dinner drinks.

Moving on from 1 degree we braved the awful weather and the fact that I didn’t bring an umbrella (how very un-English of me!) the few hundred metres to F!x’s at the Port Office Hotel. I thought I remembered this restaurant as being a place where you could get really good (and gigantic) mussels and buckets of chips. Unfortunately no mussels this time around (had to settle for swordfish – I know poor me right? heh heh) but we did get some of tastiest chips I’ve had in a while. Sprinkled with what appeared to be a mix of paprika (according to the waitress) and a sugar/salt combination the chips were very mmmmm. Not served in a bucket this time round however. I think I had too many chips as I wasn’t feeling dessert but that didn’t stop Jen and James sharing a “Strawberry semifreddo Martini w burnt honey & vanilla cream” which I must admit I did get a sneaky taste of. I think it was a very good choice for dessert!

It was nice catching up with Jen and James tonight. Both of them have done the whole London thing but decided to come back to Oz permanently so it was interesting to get their take on whether it was the right move or not. I guess everyone has their path to take and mine, for now, remains in London.