You feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere, because the streets haven’t been tarmacced – but who of us has?! (little joke for my DCC friends) and it’s very low key. Yet the shop that sells “small items of interest” stocks at least three books on the art of Frida Kahlo and there’s a restaurant called The Casino – but it’s not one. It’s named after a creek. And this is the kind of thing on the menu:
• stuffed pasta tossed with langoustine, sliced mushrooms, roasted red bell pepper, spinach and artichoke heart in a garlic cream sauce
• chicken breast smothered with a mild green chilli pesto and pepperjack cheese
• tender duck breast, finished with Shauna’s blueberry Cabernet sauce
• pork tenderloin marinated in soy, sesame, ginger, cilantro and garlic
• tender pork ribs slow cooked in the oven, finished on the grill with Phil Baiocchi’s Top Secret 49-ers Tailgate BBQ sauce
• Black and Blue Beef: Roasted prime rib of beef dredged in our own Cajun spice blend, flash fried in an old cast iron river skillet and topped with Gorgonzola blue cheese – often imitated, never duplicated!
• Camarones Anejo: prawns sautéed in Shauna’s lime cilantro butter with tomato, black olive corn and a splash of gold tequila.
Bear in mind that this is the middle of nowhere………..and on the table to the right of you is definitely a transvestite, on the table ahead of you there’s three young fathers with their sons on a “boys and kids” trip and behind you a group of hippies one of whom has on the front of his T-shirt “I got sand caught in..” and, on the back of it: “My happy place.” More information please!
I could happily stay here a fortnight (and then come back to see what it’s like in the winter) – if only to try every dish at The Casino. The above list is not the full menu – I just got overwhelmed.
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