Porteno

If you're all about deliciously tender, slow cooked meats - get here ASAP. 

Walking in, you walk past fire pits with surrounded by the lamb and pig that you've come here for. As soon as you spot these, you know you're in for good things. 

We order:

• Bread with pork pate
• Charcuterie plate
• Fetta & Provolone filled Zucchini Flowers
• Calamari with three styles of Cucumber
• Chorizo
• 8 hour wood fired pig
• 8 hour wood fired lamb
• Crispy brussel sprouts

Food comes out pretty quick here and pretty much in the order that we had ordered it. 

I'm not a huge fan of pate as it is, but a thin layer of this on bread does me good. 

Charcuterie plate, you can't go wrong. Super thin slices of delicious meats and olives, YUM! 

Zucchini flowers were pretty good, nice side to have on the table.

Calamari, yum! Really well cooked.

Chorizo, need I say more? Mmmm..

8 hour meats, these are SO tender, words cannot describe. Juicy, melt in the mouth, such an awesome flavour. You can't come here and not order these, you just can't!

Brussel sprouts, super crispy and mint goes really well! 

Full as googs, we decide to make room for dessert. We order:

• South American Style Pavlova
• Coconut Ice Cream, charred Pineapple, Tequila Granita, Tapioca & Young Coconut

This pavlova is out of this world. We easily could have demolished one of these each if it wasn't for our already close to exploding stomachs. 

The layers and flavours in this cake are just SO good! Caramel, banana, pistachio.

The waiter forgot our ice cream that we ordered, but it soon arrived after the waiter was reminded. This was really nice too, very refreshing on the palette and not as rich as the pavlova. 

My personal preference would be the pavlova though.

If you are planning on going here, I would suggest making a booking if you have enough people. Luckily, we did and even though we had, we still had to line up and there was still a line when we left a couple hours later.