Easy Tiger Collingwood, Melbourne

Easy Tiger Details

Easy Tiger Address

96 Smith St
Collingwood VIC 3066
Map
Easy Tiger Menu
Easy Tiger Website

Easy Tiger Contact Info

Phone (03) 9417 2373

Cuisines

Thai

Chef

Jarrod Hudson

Prices

Average Meal Price $28 - based on one entree & main course only

General Price
Entrees $4.00-$15.00
Mains $4.00-$32.00
Desserts $14.00

Banquet
Banquet $65.00

Prices last updated: 11/2011

Hours

Dinner
Tue to Sun 6pm - 11pm

User Reviews of Easy Tiger, Collingwood

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9.8 Highly Recommended

Food 10 Ambience 9 Service 10 Value 10

Can Smith Street get any cooler? I find myself drawn here every week to try another brilliant place to eat!

Easy Tiger is pretty special, there is a homeliness and comfort whilst looking super stylish! The welcome lily flower tea settles you in to browse through a wonderful menu with street food bites, salads and curries. The banquets sound really good and very reasonable but we are creating our own tonight! Click here for menu.

The street food list is all too tempting so, we get them all!

Taro crisps with chilli salt are gorgeous, we are happily tucking in whilst we get into the 2011 Valere Riesling, winemaker Mr Valentine’s first baby is wonderful!... read more at my blog

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Feb 04, 2012

FoodieAboutTown
98

7.5 Recommended

Food 7 Ambience 8 Service 7 Value 8

In the last half-a-decade or so, Melbourne’s northside has been increasingly viewed as an up-and-coming place, a favourite of the hipster and bohemian, the student and young professional. Mirroring this trend, a few inspired dining venues have emerged from its generally nondescript road strips. Easy Tiger is one of them, a small eatery which at night, quite literally glows golden like a Thai beach bangalow. Inside, the vibe is almost as beach-club-like, laid back and bouyant. Its interior decor matches its non-surf-dude clientele though, tasteful and discreet. It’s a geometric lay-out. Two rectangular communal tables on one side, and a few angular tables for trios and duos on the other, juxtaposed against the curvy low lounge seating at the window.

Setting itself apart from Melbourne’s exasperating obsession with black bistro chairs, large galley bars and warehouse industrial chic, there’s none of that stock-standard aesthetic here — wide 1970s retro chairs with posterior-friendly cushioning, caramel-coloured tables, walls panelled with recesses that are back-lit, accentuating a sentinel line-up of tinted glass tumblers. The one decor touch that alludes to Easy Tiger’s culinary focus is a tribal-esque palm frond and fish wall mural, it reminds MoMo & Coco of large kites that we used to fly as children, and also of a very typical South-East-Asian dish that sees the wafting of smoky and spicy aromas accompanying the unwrapping of fish heaving with steamed white flesh.

Unlike a recent newcomer of similar culinary focus (we refer to the much-vaunted Chin Chin of a popularity which we simply do not comprehend), it’s so very easy to fall in love with Easy Tiger. There’s an ambience that’s dynamic and relaxed. There’s a generally good understanding of what hospitality entails in the hospitality industry. There’s a decor marrying perfectly with gastronomic offerings that follow the path of what Australia does best — elegantly and deftly fusing well-balanced, nuanced South-East-Asian flavours and ingredients to mostly Western foundations, rather than futilely (and foolishly) trying to recreate in totality South-East-Asia.

Overall, it’s sophisticated, refined modern-Asian/Australian dining for the more discerning diner. However, as is the similar misfortune of similarly-focused restaurants, Longrain, Gingerboy, Coda etc, Easy Tiger occasionally seems like a subdued lamb rather than a tiger. Whether modern or traditional, South-East-Asian food is about incisive poetry, rather than a sfumato painting. Flavours need to be fired through with a resounding gunshot, not a soporific tranquiliser. Easy Tiger could possibly sketch less easy strokes and embrace more bold lines, because its roar certainly has the potential to reverberate far beyond the inner-city northern fringe.