Another thing that was a happy coincidence after eating dinner at Hogs Breath Cafe last night was they have their 21st birthday celebration on until the 21st August.

The 21st birthday celebration means if you eat at Hogs Breath and order one of their signature steaks, they’ll give you a frequent diners card for free that entitles you to 21% off your next meal at Hogs Breath. If you’re a current frequent diners card holder, you’re entitled to your normal frequent diners card discount and they’ll give you a Hogs Breath steak knife for each prime rib meal as well.

Since Claire and I have had Hogs Breath cards for a long time, they were still happy to give them to us so we signed up Lorraine & Sterle – fantastic. I’m now thinking we should go back before the end of the month, get a couple more frequent diners cards for some other friends that don’t have them and get another pair of steak knives!

This evening I was lucky enough to have dinner at a small, quirky Surfers Paradise restaurant named Bumbles Cafe. It is located on River Drive at Budds Beach and has a great outlook over the famous Gold Coast canals with their luxurious mega mansions and super sized cruiser style boats. The site was originally a convenience store and in January 2000 was converted into a small cafe with a handful of tables and a bench seat. Over the years, that has grown to now seat sixty inside spread across a split level floor and four general dining spaces, coupled with alfresco dining for forty.

By the look of it, Bumbles take a lot of pride in their menu and keeping it seasonal and fresh. We were eating from the menu of the month, which had three courses with 4-6 dishes in each section. I chose a lemon risotto with Morten Bay bugs for an entre, snapper on a bed of beans and a sticky date putting for dessert. All of the meals I had for dinner were excellent, well cooked and flavoursome. With so many other delicious options on this months menu alone, I can see why people return to Bumbles restaurant for dinner.

I’ve known about Bumbles as a cafe from 2004 when I first moved to the Gold Coast as it is walking distance from one of our offices, however didn’t realise that they had such an excellent dinner service as well. I would absolutely love to go back and sample some of the other items on the menu at some point, which will no doubt be different but equally as scrumptious.

Arnott’s Tim Tams are probably the most popular chocolate biscuit in Australia, so popular in fact that one in two households throughout the country have a packet of Tim Tams.

Over the illustrious life of the trusty Tim Tam, they have undergone a number of transformations – none more popular than the original classic flavour and backed up by double coated Tim Tams and chewy caramel Tim Tams. Recently Arnott’s have added another flavour to the Tim Tam stables, Tim Tam Classic Dark.

I’ll eat just about any chocolate, white, milk, dark and everything in between but white and dark I have to eat in measured quantities. I wasn’t sure about a dark chocolate Tim Tam but decided I needed to experience it first hand and I have to say, I really like it. They’ve still got that familiar taste, which is enriched by a luscious dark chocolate however there are hints of an old school favourite in there, the moreish Arnott’s TeeVee Snack.

I don’t buy Tim Tam’s very often, I’m generally more of a Mint Slice type of guy but next time I do buy a Tim Tam – I think it might very well be a dark chocolate version!