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1001 dinners 1001 nights skip to main skip to sidebar 1001 dinners 1001 nights originally a culinary journey through the best and sometimes not the best eateries in melbourne interstate and international this site is a free guide your comments are very welcome and any contributions will be added to the site feel free to email us reviews anytime and anywhere tuesday june 28 2022 navi yarraville omg i dont recall how i came across this little restaurant months ago but whenever i tried to get a reservation it was always booked out even months ahead without much hope i put myself down on a waitlist for a few dates a week or two later an email informed me we had a table for four the next night we arrived punctually at this small restaurant with room for about 25 guests and chose the eight course menu 150 the following pictures of the dishes and the menu are a challenge to recognize just what picture was what menu item try it black garlic salmon roe macaron after a week i can t remember but the meal was astonishing food porn if you like as far as presentation because the dishes were good to look at but the impressive thing was the flavours without analysing any particular dish from the start to the end it was a a symphony of unusual matching tastes created by unexpected combinations definitely a restaurant for foodies koji beetroot macadamia mushrooms rye artichoke lamb prosciutto anchovy fingerlime roasted cuttlefish celery a palate cleanser smoked rainbow trout riberries chicken skin southern rock lobster celeriac sorrel burnt butter pumpkin wattleseed sourdough murray cod mussels linseed nasturtium rabbit brassica pine mushrooms elements of cornfed duck moyarra reserve quandong honey bee pollen mandarin white chocolate butternut quince stout artichoke s mores tamarillo yuzu tart rhubarb rose chocolate score 17 20 posted by elliot and sandra at 2 07 pm 1 comment friday april 01 2022 potsticker revisited there have been at least five restaurants on this busy corn er diagonally opposite caulfield park that have failed to before potsticker showed the way it has changed hands since eric wong refurbished the place with a central pool featuring an ever flowering cherry blossom in lights it s got a lot of style for a suburban restaurant looking back i see that we ve reviewed potsicker in 2011 and 2013 and eaten here on at least 15 other occasions the simple reason is that it s consistently good good atmosphere good service and good food modest wine list and modest prices back in 2015 the agf gave them 13 5 20 but by 2019 when a restaurant needed 14 20 to get a mention they didn t get a mention they should have last week we had their lobster banquet 93 a dish of prawn crackers before we looked at the menu was nice the banquet started with a good size chicken and corn soup followed by a crab claw with a stick of sugar cane replacing the usual decorative crab claw and then a seafood san chao bao all pleasant well prepared dishes two pieces of peking duck were served separately before the lobster in a ginger and shallot sauce accompanied by special fried rice wok sauteed tenderloin beef with black truffle was the last main served with their special fried rice finally a dessert mango pudding tea was served the pot over a burning candle towards the end of the meal this is not haute cuisine but every dish was pleasing good sized serves left us very content we ll be back again and again score 14 20 posted by elliot and sandra at 10 49 pm 1 comment tuesday march 08 2022 golda why would anyone review a restaurant just one week before it closes well lots of reasons it may have been an iconic restaurant worth remembering a memorial or perhaps as an opportunity to comment on the food scene as illustrated by the place to some extent that applies to this review it makes me wonder how can a restaurant survive six lengthy lockdowns with government support of course but then fail when they re free to open how can a restaurant do a 14 5 million restoration and make money is it a lousy business plan or just melbourne s fickle patrons golda is a special case it has excellent reviews its easily accessible in a busy part of prahran attached to the cullen hotel the food is modern israeli boasting flavours of the middle east they offer an a la carte or a six or eight course tasting menu we as usual went for the lot 90 person we started with grandma rosa s pickles a small bowl of pickled vegetables mo stly cabbage and florets of cauliflower green falafel roasted beetroot humus fermented red zhug a spicy hot sauce red cabbage followed two colourful salads of no great distinction a third salad spicy mizrachi zucchini broad beans tzfat cheese heart of palm was very gently spiced a pleasant dish and then one more salad marinated labna cherry tomato confit cellery pine nuts lavender was indeed a very nice salad two mezzes cured salmon pastrami dill cream cheese chain pickled shallots was a great and unusual dish but the spiced duck shashlik eggplant caviar mango amber sauce fenugreek despite the flowery description and attractive appearance was very ordinary they did serve an extremely good house bakes iraqui flatbread for main courses we had slow cooked lamb shoulder with chickpeas silverbeet turmeric yoghurt date and rosemary reduction sounded very exciting but it wasn t there was only a tiny amount of lamb cut into very small pieces and a large amount of chickpeas turmeric and date unrecognisable and rosemary handled with a light touch did not make a good dish for some reason they failed to mention the mint spicy georgian quail freekah and walnuts plum and tamarind sauce crispy vine leaves was furnished with only a small dry leg and thigh for each of us where was the breast take away the quail and it was still despite all the ingredients unimpressive after this we had two vegetable dishes chosen by the chef to match the previous dishes they both were very suitable to finish the main meal lebanese fattoush grilled tomato cucumber pickled garlic sumac croutons lydya s eggplant roulade burghul golden raisins walnuts burnt tomato and pomegranite molasses was the most interesting of the dishes for me a dessert cream covered chocolate on fruit was nice and quite simple there is a modest wine list moderately priced service was enthusiastic competent and considerate there are lots of rave reviews of golda i think they mostly come from people who are not very familiar with middle eastern flavours as such they may have been exciting but perhaps not enough to get them to become frequent return customers certainly i wouldn t be back but i m glad i ate that meal even though i give the food not much more than a bare pass firstly i like to encourage initiative not something you could easily rustle up at home the whole meal was complex with lots of ingredients in every dish which seems to be the way chef s try to make their mark in this case i felt that chef rotem papa tried perhaps too hard but you never fly high if you don t set a high mark although several of the dishes failed it was worth the experience now chef papo will go somewhere else i think in australia where ever it is i would like to go there to see what sort of new experience it would provide your table is ready score 13 20 posted by elliot and sandra at 1 11 pm 1 comment wednesday march 02 2022 centonove centonove translates as 109 which is the address in cotham rd kew of this long standing italian restaurant it has a goodly number of regulars and is generally quite busy it is in the upper price bracket for a suburban restaurant they offer a two course menu for 69 and a three course menu for 90 there is a mo dest wine list by the glass and a more extensive reasonably priced half or full bottle list linen table cloths and napkins and reasonable cutlery crockery and glass adorn their tables which are little too close to each other so what about the food we tasted several dishes with mixed feelings vittello tonnato was disappointing the tuna mayo was bland and i felt that the veal could have been younger vittello tonnato strachiattela ox heart tomatoes nadine anchovies and liguran olives was superb the tomatoes actually tasted like tomatoes and everything melded to produce a palate pleasing start to the meal strachiattela flounder on special was quite small pleasant enough it had some mild herbs which detracted from my enjoyment of the fish sad looking flounder the paparadelle with rabbit stew and ligurian olives was very much to my taste paparadelle finally a 12 hour slow cooked lamb shoulder with salsa verde and saffron onto could not have been better saffron orzo crisp roasted dobson potatoes 9 were a good side dish roast potatoes a bit of a mixed bag good quality italian fare that not always hit the mark score 13 75 20 posted by elliot and sandra at 3 16 pm no comments name date suburb melway introduction ambience service food wine price comments score 20 posted by elliot and sandra at 2 27 pm no comments wednesday may 20 2020 forms posted by elliot and sandra at 8 13 pm no comments monday august 26 2019 dinner by heston revisited crown melbourne 08 2019 where to begin it s about four years since we visited heston s restaurant last time it was and we sat at the chefs table which in fact is rather isolated from the rest of the restaurant yesterday we went for lunch we sat in the main dining room which will spacious with well separated tables and not noisy from the start to the end service was impressive wait staff knew a lot about the food they were serving and the young lady talking to us about the wines was impressive the degustation menu was preceded buy some small bites offered by the chef a roast marrow with anchovies served on the christmas small biscuit was a lovely start score 20 posted by elliot and sandra at 9 18 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2022 5 june 1 navi yarravilleomgi dont april 1 march 3 2020 1 may 1 2019 4 august 1 june 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