I spend today with a fantastic photographer. She was just home from a few weeks away in the states where she took photos from Time square to The Grand Canyon. Her snaps were phenomenal I knew she would do a great job!
We captured every aspect of the restaurant. We discovered nooks and crannies which I didn't even know existed. After we finished with the beautiful interior the fun really started! It was time to get pictures of main courses, desserts, coffees and cocktails (non-alcoholic of course but just as tasty as always!).
We captured one of our chefs rolling out hand made dough for a vegetarian pizza, he generously smothered the dough with tasty marinara sauce and piled the pizza with fresh mushrooms, broccoli, cherry tomatoes and mixed roasted peppers. This was topped off with aged Italian parmesan and mozzarella. The chef then prepared even more from our a la carte menu to be photographed....baked salmon fillet, goats cheese salad and yakisoba noodles with fresh prawns and chicken. We were in heaven. Our appetite was well and truly worked up once we were finished with the photo shoot! Three of us enjoyed the spectacular feast!
After lunch was round two. It was time to get our desserts, coffees and cocktails on camera! Our chefs prepared my favourite Toblerone cheese cake, profiteroles and fresh strawberry pavlova! We somehow managed to make room for these after our delicious meal! Our Last job was to get pictures of the coffees and cocktails - our fantastic bar tender whipped up a Mojito, strawberry margarita and sex on the beach. Our barista created two silky cappuccinos with a distinctive coffee/chocolate infused scent!
Honestly, everything was fantastic, however I ran myself into a bit of bother, there was a miniature jug with the Luigi profiteroles, with chocolate sauce that just wouldn't pour....the polite thing to do would have been to spoon it out, but that would not work either! The dessert spoon wouldn't fit in this tiny jug...so after a lot of shaking, spinning and banging in persistence to have some of this stuborn sauce I made a chocolaty mess all over the plate and table... I think I will be sticking to the toblerone cheesecake in the future ... it might be the safer option!
I will pop up some of the pictures from today once they are edited ...we took over 300 snaps so it might take the weekend to sieve through.
Things are getting busy at Luigi's as the Friday night rush begins so I'll leave it at that for today! Enjoy your weekend!
Aisling
