It seems as if we had been spending a lot of time at the airport recently and only a few short days after returning from Perth I again found myself at the airport. This time is was a pick up job, with SC returning from an day in Cairns on business. Usually when we come back from the airport, we have a ritual that we head over to our favourite restaurant, which is just across the street, and have a lovely and relaxing meal. Unfortunately, when I went to book a spot for dinner I was advised that a private function was on and the dining area was not open to the public. This presented a dilemma, what would we do for dinner?
Once SC had landed and I broke the bad news that we would have to go elsewhere for dinner, we took the pragmatic approach to checking out somewhere new on the way home. This didn't leave us a heap of options but we did have one dining precent that we have not spent a lot of time exploring open to us. We have eaten at Portside Wharf before when we checked out Sono Portside (see post here) but Hamilton is not an area that is generally on our radar when looking for a meal. It's a little surprising actually given the concentration of reasonably good restaurants in such a contained little district.
We normally take the tunnel when returning from the airport to the CBD, which is the best of all the major road infrastructure programs over the last few years, but a quick detour through the old route took us right past Portside. It was a relatively quiet Tuesday night and the under ground car park was pretty empty, so we thought that we would have no problems getting a table without a reservation. After a short walk around the restaurants looking at the menus on display, we opted for Restaurant Manx, partially due to some of the menu items and partly because of our Entertainment Card.
