Centennial Vinyard I had been awaiting this for a long time

Circumstances had the Princess and I missing many opportunities to dine at Centennial, we had even dropped in, on the off chance of grabbing lunch on more than one Sunday. Imagine my surprise when early one Sunday morning I suggested to Proncess that we try Centennial for lunch and Bingo! There was room. The booking was made and expectantly we travelled to the highlands.

We arrived and were eventually seated to a lovely view.

The service for drinks was slow, 20 Minutes before a drink arrived, the staff were not in any way concerned at this. My beer was a local brew that I have tried before and it eventually arrived cold.

Pigs fly was a nice pale ale, I am very partial to a pale ale however this one was possibly a little less flavoursome than I would prefer. There was no other craft beer on offer so I stuck to it.

Princess had the Centennial platter as an entree. Very nice! I luckily was given a taste of each little morsel.

I had a duck entree which the waitstaff were completely confused about, saying to me "you understand that the confit duck will come rare", Interesting. Huge entree nicely done. The sauerkraut was an interesting zingy offset to the fattiness of the duck.

Princess had the sage souffle with pumpkin "it was lovely". The shot below shows the souffle as served, deflated. When quizzing the waiter if this was how it is normally served, he simply quizzed Princess as to whether it tasted ok or not, to which she replied "very nice" well there is nothing to worry about then is there? He said.

I had a very interesting beef dish for main, "gingerbread angus fillet". Again a large meal, with beautiful flavours. The reason I picked this dish was because I had never seen ginger bread matched with steak before. It worked quite well. I think that there were way to many other flavours on the plate however and it all became so rich and sweet by the end that I was regretting ordoring it.

The food was very good, if a little confused. The overall atmosphere however had us leaving quite flat, I am sure we will not go back unless invited to an event there. Quite a pity really as the potential is there. As is often the case, the staff can make or break a restaurant.