quality food...

witty_pseudonym wrote:current restaurant faves?
booking special ladies dinner in a couple of weeks and too many options around.
cutler & co booked out, thinking long grain or taxi perhaps.
help appreciated.

Panama Dinning room on smith street.
We did a girly night there once, was amazing. we just did off the menu but they also do a set menu option thing for larger groups if you want to.

Was a really nice night out then just headed up to suede for more drinking of random things the bartender made for us.

I dunno about everyones budgets and size of group but I also love number 8 at crown, they have an outdoor section that is on the southbank which is nice too.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:34 pm

We're keeping our options open, so have booked Taxi, Circa and Ezard for dinner. All look so gooooooood.

menace · Post by **menace** » Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:49 pm

newmarket hotel sooo good spice temple worth a eat . town hall fitzroy awesome and huxtable collingwood great food

Post by **huge** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:19 pm

totally going to have a slow cooked pulled pork sandwich at mule right about now.

probs wont look as outrageous as this although i want it to

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:23 pm

good christ that looks delicious.

mmm circa tomorrow night. nomnom.

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:56 pm

Mmmm. The Mc Maggot-infested Roadkill burger.

Had no idea pulled pork looked so vom.

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:17 am

C.I.A. wrote:Had no idea pulled pork looked so vom.

you might be in a minority there.

Post by **fooishbar** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:38 am

Fents wrote:
C.I.A. wrote:Had no idea pulled pork looked so vom.
you might be in a minority there.

for the most absolutely serious of reals.

Post by **huge** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:23 am

everyone, what is your favourite local cheese producer?

quick · Post by **quick** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:25 am

are you doing market research for your shop hughbert?

Post by **huge** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:29 am

could be, could be

aroes · Post by **aroes** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:35 am

I put Mersey Valley cheese in my sangas/omelettes/salads etc

You can get it at Coles, and it's farking good

I'm sure other people here would have some better recoms for more boutique/posh stuff but

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:56 am

Yea Cheese Factory - tis good.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:02 am

King Island FTW

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:04 am

deviant wrote:King Island FTW

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:33 am

Circa was so disappointing.

Good ol' country cook up today. YAY baking!

Hugh, I'm sure the sexy cheese man at Diane's will have some recommendations. He might even flirt with you in the process! :titter:

Post by **huge** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:55 am

lol Con or Paris? good blokes.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:30 am

we're not on first name basis yet.

quick · Post by **quick** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:30 am

watsonia is yum as... mersey valley is pretty damn good too, but you put me onto that hughberty

Post by **huge** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:35 am

witty_pseudonym wrote:we're not on first name basis yet.

paris is the shorter one

thanks for the input yous.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:53 am

kronz · Post by **kronz** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:19 pm

I made 300 mini sausage rolls last weekend. Took me fuck ages.

They were pretty yummy though.

quick · Post by **quick** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:49 pm

made my first thai yellow curry last night, went real well... still need to collect more spices and stuff, but it was pretty darn yummy

retzie · Post by **retzie** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:03 pm

huge wrote:totally going to have a slow cooked pulled pork sandwich at mule right about now.

Needs more smoked brisket. Can has one of these out the back??

Post by **huge** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:21 pm

omfg brisket. if it were legal to serve it made like that here i would totes do.

Post by **huge** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:34 pm

3kg of pork shoulder in the slow cooker and i made the bbq suace from scratch this time.

get into mule tomorrow for some tugged pig in bread. bigger pickles this time! maybe chips too if i can convince hamish to serve them hah!

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:11 pm

tugged pig sounds no better than pulled pork imo.

in fact

sounds

worse.

i made smoked paprika goulash which was pretty good.

Post by **huge** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:17 pm

lol ok.

slow cooked pork shoulder with homemade bbq sauce, coleslaw, BIG dill pickle and lightly salted kettle chips.

goulash is totally awesome.

quick · Post by **quick** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:27 am

had homemade jerked chicken on Saturday, was seriously awesome

Post by **huge** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:18 am

did you make it? i want to do jerk chicken bagels at the shop!

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:26 am

kinky meat sandwiches ftw.
what about rubbed lamb? (or does that sound paedophilic?)

quick · Post by **quick** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:27 am

only helped... can make again, not exact as spices where just thrown in... the rice we made was awesome..

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:53 am

mmm lunch at Cafe Vue today.

Post by **huge** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:43 am

was going to a lamb sandwich tomorrow at the cafe but chickened out at the cost of lamb haha. pork on again tomorrow!

so out of these two, which would you prefer (if we do lamb at some point)

slow cooked lamb shanks (or shoulder) in a light stock, (maybe white wine and oregano, thyme etc), fried eggplant, roasted spanish peppers (or capsicum), sprinkling of fresh mint. all in a soft roll spread with spiced (garlic whatnot) labneh.

or!

lamb slow cooked overnight in a french onion soup. soft roll or croissant with butter and swiss cheese. served with a small amount of the lamby soup to DIP THE SAMMICH IN.

?

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:02 am

how can one choose between two options like that?
jesus! just make sure you only have one on at a time. that would too agonising a decision tbh.

Post by **huge** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:13 am

lol. imagine!

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:52 pm

Bistro Vue

Post by **huge** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:02 pm

wankery?

retzie · Post by **retzie** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:26 pm

huge wrote:slow cooked lamb shanks (or shoulder) in a light stock, (maybe white wine and oregano, thyme etc), fried eggplant, roasted spanish peppers (or capsicum), sprinkling of fresh mint. all in a soft roll spread with spiced (garlic whatnot) labneh.

This one, by a lot. Why for the 'soft roll' though?? Needs more rugged, manly roll.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:35 pm

huge wrote:wankery?

Had the food and wine fest deal and it was just boring as feck tbh. Duck salad was passable but nothing exciting, main was basically an overcooked chicken maryland with some sort of cannellini bean mush, and the desert a pistachio creme brulee, which was the highlight. Seems like such a waste of an oppotunity to promote your restaurant to people that would otherwise not go, but won't bother going back.

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:52 am

Bompass and Parr at Espy.

Mad desert ballet candy floss hair 3 hr sampling rave.
Ate too much sugar.
Free flow bubbles though so that cut through it.

Highlight: Gin and tonic centre marshmallow
Lowlight: SUGAR RUSH'ED!

Would rave again.

Post by **huge** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:57 am

http://tacotruck.com.au/

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:28 pm

huge wrote:was going to a lamb sandwich tomorrow at the cafe but chickened out at the cost of lamb haha. pork on again tomorrow!

so out of these two, which would you prefer (if we do lamb at some point)

slow cooked lamb shanks (or shoulder) in a light stock, (maybe white wine and oregano, thyme etc), fried eggplant, roasted spanish peppers (or capsicum), sprinkling of fresh mint. all in a soft roll spread with spiced (garlic whatnot) labneh.

or!

lamb slow cooked overnight in a french onion soup. soft roll or croissant with butter and swiss cheese. served with a small amount of the lamby soup to DIP THE SAMMICH IN.

?

option 2 tbh because I love french onion soup a lot.

both sound nice tho.