We have booked a private room in Barnabys Restaurant in Parramatta for dinner following our marriage. The plan is that we will take the children and the two witness couples, which will make a party of 10, to the restaurant for an early dinner before heading of to the "Bingle Tree" for 3 nights.
The restaurant is a great venue with a fabulous reputation and a little bit of an historical connection to the colonial days of Australia
"The rustic old colonial building in which Barnaby's Riverside is now housed, first came to fame during the early part of the nineteenth century as the hiding place of the infamous Barnaby Templeton - the first prisoner to have escaped from Parramatta Prison. Restored and rebuilt in 1976, Barnaby's Riverside, Parramatta, now enjoys a reputation based more on its modern Australian cuisine than its somewhat colourful past. Step into Barnaby's Riverside and you step into a great chapter of Australian History.
Convicts first built the building that now houses Barnaby's in approximately 1826. The hand made bricks are still very much in evidence today in the private rooms of the original section of the building. It is believed that the building was originally used to house soldiers attached to The Government House of the day - and because of its proximity to the river became a strategic location in the establishment of the young colony. Rumour has it, that one Barnaby Templeton was the first convict to escape from the prison at Parramatta and was discovered hiding in this pair of historic houses".
