Last night my daughter and I went to the Cuttlefish Cafe in Manly QLD.
We had 4 tapas between us, fresh prawns, marinated octopus with salad,
oysters Kilpatrick and lemon pepper calamari. I was amazed at the fact
that they had gf after a number of menu items. We had looked at the
outside menus of about a dozen different places before we chose this
place and all had gf on items too. Some even had low carb after some
items.

http://www.cuttlefishcafe.com/tapas_menu_10.html

I am trying to fins out the dressing on the octopus salad. I can't place
the flavours at all. The hunky American waiter said it was some kind of
vinaigrette (my daughter kept asking him questions to here his
voice...lol) I saw capers in it. The dressing coated the salad veggies
rather had them swim in it. As a lot of the menu had a strong Spanish
influence I am wondering if it is a Spanish style dressing. I will try
googling it.

On 17/09/2010 9:26 AM, Ozgirl wrote:
> Last night my daughter and I went to the Cuttlefish Cafe in Manly QLD.
> We had 4 tapas between us, fresh prawns, marinated octopus with salad,
> oysters Kilpatrick and lemon pepper calamari. I was amazed at the fact
> that they had gf after a number of menu items. We had looked at the
> outside menus of about a dozen different places before we chose this
> place and all had gf on items too. Some even had low carb after some items.
>
> http://www.cuttlefishcafe.com/tapas_menu_10.html
>
Ok ya got me what does (gf) mean, gluten free?

A salad isn't a salad without a couple of slices of Golden Circle
beetroot in it :-)

> I am trying to fins out the dressing on the octopus salad. I can't place
> the flavours at all.

Still into the occy, plenty out in the Bay so they're not gunner run out
any time soon, you can have my share, good bait tho :-)

The hunky American waiter said it was some kind of
> vinaigrette (my daughter kept asking him questions to here his
> voice...lol) I saw capers in it. The dressing coated the salad veggies
> rather had them swim in it. As a lot of the menu had a strong Spanish
> influence I am wondering if it is a Spanish style dressing. I will try
> googling it.

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RodS T2
Australia

"Ozgirl" > wrote in message
...
> Last night my daughter and I went to the Cuttlefish Cafe in Manly QLD. We
> had 4 tapas between us, fresh prawns, marinated octopus with salad,
> oysters Kilpatrick and lemon pepper calamari. I was amazed at the fact
> that they had gf after a number of menu items. We had looked at the
> outside menus of about a dozen different places before we chose this place
> and all had gf on items too. Some even had low carb after some items.
>
> http://www.cuttlefishcafe.com/tapas_menu_10.html
>
> I am trying to fins out the dressing on the octopus salad. I can't place
> the flavours at all. The hunky American waiter said it was some kind of
> vinaigrette (my daughter kept asking him questions to here his
> voice...lol) I saw capers in it. The dressing coated the salad veggies
> rather had them swim in it. As a lot of the menu had a strong Spanish
> influence I am wondering if it is a Spanish style dressing. I will try
> googling it.

I love tapas! Well, some of it anyway. We had tapas at a place with
outdoor seating, somewhere on the East Coast. I think it was WA DC, but
can't remember for sure because we went to so many different places on that
trip. Also ate at a little hole in the wall Spanish place. I remember
having some really good potatoes there.

I have heard that Australia is very good for dining out with GF stuff. Some
of the food that I mail order comes from there.

"RodS" > wrote in message
...
> On 17/09/2010 9:26 AM, Ozgirl wrote:
>> Last night my daughter and I went to the Cuttlefish Cafe in Manly
>> QLD.
>> We had 4 tapas between us, fresh prawns, marinated octopus with
>> salad,
>> oysters Kilpatrick and lemon pepper calamari. I was amazed at the
>> fact
>> that they had gf after a number of menu items. We had looked at the
>> outside menus of about a dozen different places before we chose this
>> place and all had gf on items too. Some even had low carb after some
>> items.
>>
>> http://www.cuttlefishcafe.com/tapas_menu_10.html
>>
> Ok ya got me what does (gf) mean, gluten free?

Yes

> A salad isn't a salad without a couple of slices of Golden Circle
> beetroot in it :-)

And yes...

>
>> I am trying to fins out the dressing on the octopus salad. I can't
>> place
>> the flavours at all.
>
> Still into the occy, plenty out in the Bay so they're not gunner run
> out any time soon, you can have my share, good bait tho :-)

Well, in NSW the chilli marinade on the Coles marinated baby occies was
delicious. Its totally different here in QLD, not sure Coles even stock
it anymore. It was disappointing to say the least. We thought we were
getting baby occies last night in the occy salad. I had already asked
the waiter if they were bbq'ed or if they were slimy I don't like
slimy. Bbq'ed has a cooked chicken type texture and dry on the outside.
Anyways, the occy wasn't a baby as such (and it wasn't slimy), it was
all tentacles (again unexpected) cut into pieces about 2 inches long.
The tentacles were thicker and larger than a baby but not really as big
as most occies I have seen.

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:32:29 +1000, RodS > wrote:

>Still into the occy, plenty out in the Bay so they're not gunner run out
>any time soon, you can have my share, good bait tho :-)

Want my addy, Rod? :P

Nicky.