On the weekend of 25th / 26th October 2013, my hubby surprised me with a luxury weekend at the Mona Pavilions. MONA ( Museum of Old & New Arts ) , is located within the Moorilla winery in Hobart, Tasmania.
We checked in at 3pm on 25th October, we were shown to our pavilion, which had fabulous views overlooking the gorgeous Derwent river, it had a spa bath with a view to die for, fully equipped kitchen & a huge bed. We booked a 5 course degustation meal with matching wines at The Source restaurant situated within the Mona site, it was fabulous, the French chef picks your 5 courses for you after checking if you have any dietary requirements. Our first course was Quail egg, shiitake mushroom royale, raisin purée & asparagus. The second course was Moreton bay bug tail, pickled apple, wasabi emulsion & lime zest. Third course was pan fried scallop gnocchi, perpetual spinach, yuzu purée & ponzu foam. Fourth course was slow roasted Duck, carrot & orange purée, spiced bread, sesame greens, green peppercorn oil & orange crisp. Last but not least, our fifth course was chocolate mousse, chocolate ganache & edible gold. It sounds a lot of eating & we were stuffed after it but thankfully the portion servings were what you would expect in posh restaurants.
On Saturday 26th we had breakfast in The Source restaurant, it was fabulous, my hubby had the full breakfast which consisted of fried egg, pork sausage, grilled mushroom, potato rosti, kurabota pork belly & toasted house baked bread, I had the house cured Trout, basqaise stew, slow cooked egg & hollandaise. We then looked around the MONA museum which has been called the worlds most far out museum housing one of the most confronting & controvertsial collections of art in the world, then we went on a wine tour & tasting which lasted an hour, after that we just relaxed on the balcony enjoying the view. We left on the 27th October , but not before we had our breakfast, this time we both went for the eggs Benedict on sour dough bread!!!, yum.
We checked in at 3pm on 25th October, we were shown to our pavilion, which had fabulous views overlooking the gorgeous Derwent river, it had a spa bath with a view to die for, fully equipped kitchen & a huge bed. We booked a 5 course degustation meal with matching wines at The Source restaurant situated within the Mona site, it was fabulous, the French chef picks your 5 courses for you after checking if you have any dietary requirements. Our first course was Quail egg, shiitake mushroom royale, raisin purée & asparagus. The second course was Moreton bay bug tail, pickled apple, wasabi emulsion & lime zest. Third course was pan fried scallop gnocchi, perpetual spinach, yuzu purée & ponzu foam. Fourth course was slow roasted Duck, carrot & orange purée, spiced bread, sesame greens, green peppercorn oil & orange crisp. Last but not least, our fifth course was chocolate mousse, chocolate ganache & edible gold. It sounds a lot of eating & we were stuffed after it but thankfully the portion servings were what you would expect in posh restaurants.
On Saturday 26th we had breakfast in The Source restaurant, it was fabulous, my hubby had the full breakfast which consisted of fried egg, pork sausage, grilled mushroom, potato rosti, kurabota pork belly & toasted house baked bread, I had the house cured Trout, basqaise stew, slow cooked egg & hollandaise. We then looked around the MONA museum which has been called the worlds most far out museum housing one of the most confronting & controvertsial collections of art in the world, then we went on a wine tour & tasting which lasted an hour, after that we just relaxed on the balcony enjoying the view. We left on the 27th October , but not before we had our breakfast, this time we both went for the eggs Benedict on sour dough bread!!!, yum.
our view
view from the bath
House cured Trout
Pan fried scallop gnocchi
relaxing on the balcony
full breakfast
view from Mona
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