Being the huge pregnant lady I now am, everything is getting hard. Like everything.
When getting off the couch these days, my body makes noises. I grunt and moan like some sort of wild beast. It is hardly attractive I can assure you.
I am now 33 weeks pregnant and with 7 weeks to go, some days getting myself into the kitchen is just too hard. Home delivery and take away food is becoming more and more prominent on our dinner table
Enter Menulog.com.au a nifty website that allows you to search and book and search nearby restaurants with a click of a button. The website is home to 3500 restaurants with full menu’s, 11,000 specials and over 100,000 restaurant reviews.
I was contacted by the wonderful people at Menulog to give the service a try and boy am I glad I did. You enter your postcode and up pops all the restaurants nearby that deliver to your suburb. Each has their menu’s listed, with most offering discounts for 1st purchases through Menulog, offers and deals often not found if you contacted the restaurant direct.
Ordering through Menulog is fool proof, and makes it almost too easy if there was such a thing. Log in, select restaurant, order off online menu, pay and almost immediately you receive a sms confirmation of your order and an approximate delivery time.
When I was going through the list of restaurants, we discovered new restaurants I’d never even heard of within a 5km radius and I’ve been living at our current address for 4 years! The hardest part of ordering through Menulog is seriously choosing which restaurant you want food from!
We decided to try somewhere new, and given I am back to eating tomatoes, a good pizza was being craved. I ‘discovered’ Valentine Woodfire Pizza & Café in nearby Narraweena and boy am I glad we decided to brave a new restaurant instead of going back to our usual.
I am THE WORLDS FUSSIEST PIZZA EATER. EVER. Or so my husband likes to exaggerate and claim. Pizza HAS to be woodfire. It has to be super thin. The type that flops if you tried to hold it. The traditional Napoli type. The base must have that woodfire taste, and be slightly charred underneath but not burnt, overcooked or dry. The toppings must be fresh and generous. I am fussy on pizza base sauce, and garlic quantity. You can see my hesitation in trying somewhere new.
Well, let me tell you. I have found my new local. Not only did the pizza tick all the boxes but it was delivered piping hot within 30 minutes, with a smile and I just can’t wait to eat from Valentines again.
We ordered 2 pizza’s and an entrée of the Calamari Fritti, served with Lime Aoli, and it was steaming hot, perfectly soft and so Moorish.
Our pizza’s of choice were the Capricciosa and Misto Mare. Both mouth-watering.
super thin, and slightly charred woodfire base, just the way I like it!
If you do live around Sydney’s Northern Beaches, I urge you to try Valentine Woodfire Pizza and Café. What a true local gem!
161 Alfred st, Narraweena NSW 2099.
COMPETITION TIME!
Thanks to the generosity of MenuLog.com.au I have $10 vouchers to give away to 2 lucky winners. All you have to do is ‘like’ GourmetWog and Menulog’s facebook pages then come back here and be sure to comment ‘I don’t feel like cooking tonight’ below. 2 winners will be chosen at random to receive $10 off their next MenuLog order.
T&C’s:Competition is open to all residents of Australia only, the winner will be notified via email and given 48 hours to respond. If no response in this time, a new winner will be drawn.
The winner must ‘like’ both GourmetWog and Menulog’s facebook pages and comment ‘I don’t feel like cooking tonight’ by 5pm Friday 11th July 2014.
Total prize pool is valued at $10 each and is to be used with a local Menulog restaurant of the winner’s choosing (where valid) and cannot be redeemed for cash.
The winner’s details may be forwarded to Menulog for prize distribution.
A voucher code will be emailed to the winner as supplied by Menulog and will be valid for 1 month after winner selection.
The voucher code will be valid for delivery only and balance payments via credit card.
The voucher is valid for one use only.
Gourmet Wog 
So pleased your appetite is back – yay!
Wish we had a Menulog here – sounds perfect to have all that choice.
Have a lovely weekend.
🙂 Mandy xo
Hi Lisa, now that sounds too easy. Hope all goes well with the rest of your pregnancy and the birth. Are you expecting a boy or a girl? I like to know these things. 🙂
I think of that smiling face of yours so often and wonder how it’s going for you. Not much longer. We have a couple of Indian restaurants up here who use Menulog and I can’t wait til they get more eateries signed up.
We have something similar called Sherpa’s but our order is NEVER delivered with a smile! And the minimum order price goes up if it’s raining. Only seven weeks to go? August 18th is a great date….just keep it in mind:)
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Good luck with the rest of your pregnancy. You’re on the countdown now! I have hear of Menulog and think it’s a great and convenient service. I love the look of your pizza! Amazing. I’m often on the Northern Beaches so I’ll look out for that pizza place xx
G’day and glad the pregnancy is going well for you Lisa and always feel your warm and welcoming smile too!
I am glad to reach of such a positive Menulog experience from you!
Cheers! Joanne
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I don’t feel like cooking tonight!!!
I don’t feel like cooking tonight!!!!!!!
That’s great that it only took 30 minutes. I always get so impatient with food deliveries 😛
I can’t believe you are 33 weeks pregnant already. It seems not that long ago you told me. Enjoy your feet up and let those folks wait on you. Not long to go now. That pizza does look good too.
I am concerned. You say you are fussy about pizza and like a pizza that “flops if you tried to hold it”. Please don’t tell me you are a knife and fork pizza eater? Pizza is meant to be a hand held food. I need a super thin pizza but one which is still firm enough to pick up and eat with one hand, not fall to pieces in one great big liquidy glob on my plate. It’s not easy to do but can definitely be done.