September 22 – November 14, 2012
I originally intended to put this into the “Other Neiafu Eateries” blog entry, but as I look at our pictures I realize that although we weren’t there much, we had some special times here. (The reason we weren’t there much is that it was only open for dinner, and we tended to do lunch in town and dinner on the boat).
The Balcony is a fun little restaurant that has very good food and theme dinner nights. Sundays are always Asian feast night. It might be Thai, Indonesian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian, or something along that line. There is a set menu and you eat family style, and it’s always good. Our favorite theme night, though, was the weekly Pie Night. Sadly, although we kept hearing Trish (the owner) excitedly advertising Pie Night on the morning net, we thought she meant fruit pies. It took us weeks to find out that she meant British-style meat pies.
Finally, some friends of ours got us to come to Pie Night. She had a beef and mushroom in wine sauce pie, a chicken pie, and a seafood pie. We split the beef and the seafood pies, and I don’t think we missed a pie night after that!
Aside from the theme dinner nights, Trish would host things like the occasional movie presentation and Wii bowling night (Wii is a video game system). It was a fun, festive, special place with (of course) a balcony with a terrific view, and one of the great places in Neiafu. –Cyndi
