The Church On Palmer

Church on Palmer is a special place to my fiancé and I. This is where Kevin proposed to me. The staff are very accommodating. Even though it is not BYO, they let us bring our own special wine since we explained to them I have a wine allergy to so many wines. Kevin booked us a table for dinner on 22^nd of December 2012. He had this cunning plan for a while little to my knowledge. A year prior to our engagement night Kevin had a dream that we were at a restaurant and he served me my engagement ring on a platter. So he found this beautiful platter a year prior in which he got my name engraved and kept hidden from me until the day he proposed.
This is definitely the kind of restaurant for special occasions. The presentation of the food was astounding, the food tasted extraordinary, the portion size was generous, more than I could eat. It is a little on the high end of the price scale. The service was second to none. They did everything to make sure this special night played out just how Kevin planned.
They sat us down in a nice private corner of the restaurant. I had a pork belly with delicious crackling, Kevin had salmon. We shared each other’s meals and both were cooked beautifully. It was good to see Kevin go outside the box and not go for his usual favourite lambs brains (I’m sure he thinks they make him smarter or something).
Kevin waved to the waiter and she asked if we were ready for dessert. This was the signal to the lady that Kevin was ready to pop the big question. The lady came back out of the kitchen with this beautiful silver serving platter, which I thought was gorgeous. I thought it was odd that she was coming out with a dessert platter when she hadn’t even showed us the dessert menu yet! I thought maybe she was bringing out little samples of dessert for us to taste test or maybe it was a finger bowl with fresh lemon to rinse our hands after the main course? The platter was placed in front if me and I was taken by surprise because my name was engraved in the platter. I thought to myself, this restaurant is very fancy but no one could be that quick at engraving my name in my dessert. Then it clicked to me what was going on! «OH MY GOD! You are going to ask me to marry you»? Then traditionally he got down on one knee popped the big question and of course I said YES!!! It was such an amazing night with one incredible man. So we will come back every anniversary because this is our special place. The lady that managed the restaurant was watching Kevin propose from afar and was kind enough to take some photos spontaneously and email them to us. We thought it was very thoughtful of her to go out of her way to do that and capture those special moments for us.
We finally got a real dessert after that and it was delicious. A big thank you to the staff of Church on Palmer for your help on the most special night of my life.

Very nice. Needs a bit more choice for meals but loved all the food.