Middle Park Hotel, Melbourne

User Reviews of Middle Park Hotel

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6.2 Average

Food 7 Drinks 7 Ambience 6 Service 6 Value 5

The décor in the dining room is wood panelling etc, which seems to be consistent with the style of the food, that is, solid but interesting! Our party had the fish (blue eye), which was a generous serve and simply presented, the roast chicken, silverside and the Cumberland sausage, and we were all happy with our choices. The sweets were even better, and in fact were the high point of the meal.

Service was reasonably attentive for much of the time, although there were just a couple of lapses. Most of the mains are in the $30 plus bracket, and the desserts were around about $15, so this isn’t in the “pub dining” price range although the food is better than you would expect in the average pub! However, if you wish, you can eat a little more cheaply off the bar menu. The wine list has a comprehensive selection, but again, it’s not cheap, with hardly anything below $40, and most $50 plus.

Jul 20, 2010

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5.2 Average

Food 6 Drinks 6 Ambience 4 Service 4 Value 6

Somewhat churlish welcome when we arrived for an impromptu dinner at 9.30 on a Thursday night (hurry up or the kitchen will close!) became all smiles and servitude after ordering several courses, a bottle of expensive red (choice of decanter?) and a few armagnacs. Recent fitout maintains the tired look of the old Gunn Island, with the addition of a stag antler chandelier.

Food is better. The initial soup was not a cleansing broth, but a heavy affair with a creamy potato gruel. The jellied eel was very English, and very good. The offal salad deserves its plaudits, with black pudding, kidney, tongue and other delicious tidbits, with shaved endive and a tart dressing to set it off.

The steaks were a small letdown, cooked as ordered, but if not a little charred, displaying no characteristic grill lines of the finest. Definitely grass over grain. Wine list excellent and reasonably priced. A good spot if the staff are on song.

Feb 07, 2010