Dinner 1988-style

A two-course dinner for two at one of Auckland's best seafood restaurants for $85 - can't be done? Well, it could this week....

Harbourside Restaurant is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and to mark it, this week they are serving their 1988 menu at 1988 prices. So not being ones to miss out on the opportunity to have a top class meal at discount prices, we quickly booked ourselves in - which was just as well as it was booked out in a couple of days.

In 2008, it isn't easy to get $8.50 entrees of Deep-fried Squid and Hot & Cold Salad with Pan-fried Sole; and $17 mains of Whole Snapper with Ginger Sake Sauce and Tempura Seafood Platter. It isn't often that your bottle of beer and glass of wine will cost more that one of your mains, or that your bottle of sparkling water will be more than one of our entrees. In fact, in the 2008 menu - entrees and mains are twice these prices.

And I can report that good fresh seafood tastes like good fresh seafood in whatever year's menu it is cooked.