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Fog, Prahran, VIC
Fog
Modern Australian Restaurant
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Food 8 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 8 |
Value 5 |
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Have been here three times so far and have not been disappointed. This is not the sort of place you would go for an intimate, quiet gathering on a weekend night. The place is packed to the brim with a huge open bar on Sat nights and would definitely recommend booking for dinner.
Prices, typical of Melbourne restaurants, but the food is contemporary and refined (Except the mussels entree, slightly overcooked and lacking in taste). The dessert, chocolate pistachio souffle and lemon tart are exceptional and size wise you could prob share each between 2. They also serve one of the best iced mocha's I have ever had, not sickening sweet, no decorative cream, and mixed just right to allow you to taste the coffee and the chocolate at both levels.
Service was pretty good, given how busy the restaurant was. Would recommend this place, but a meal will prob set you back about 60-80 bucks.
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25 August 2008
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Smokehouse Pizza Restaurant, South Yarra, VIC
Smokehouse Pizza Restaurant
Mediterranean, Vegetarian Friendly, Pizza Restaurant
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Food 5 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 7 |
Value 3 |
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Apparently rated as the best pizza restaurant in Melbourne, we went to try this place out and was neither impressed or disappointed with the experience. Pizzas were at usual "restaurant prices" and size but definitely not gourmet, the ingredients were common items you could pick up at coles/safeway and the pizza base did not taste like something that just came out of a woodfired oven (even though there was one right behind us.)
They do serve other cafe foods such as parmagiana but this was overcooked. Would not classify this restaurant as a gourmet woodfire restaurant.
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25 August 2008
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Aka Tombo Sushi Bar, Prahran, VIC
Aka Tombo Sushi Bar
Japanese Restaurant
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Food 2 |
Ambience 3 |
Service 5 |
Value 1 |
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We went to this restaurant after reading a reasonable review in The Age Good Food guide, with the chef apparently from Kyoto, where I'd been just 2 months ago.
The whole experience was extremely disappointing. The menu choice was limited, which would be acceptable if food was good, but this was coupled with Nobu prices and small but unrefined serves, the fish on the sushi was so thin it split. A "sushi sashimi" combination for 2 was so small and expensive ($54), and the fish was not even that fresh. I think even the normal combo packs one can get from kenzan in GPO is fresher and nicer.
The only item that was interesting was a lotus root mochi ball served in thickened broth which I haven't seen before. The four of us had ordered hardly anything, no entrees/desserts and the bill came just under 200 dollars. We had to go elsewhere for dessert because we were still hungry (and we are not big eaters) and seriously doubted the place could win us with their desserts. A much wasted and disappointing experience.
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25 August 2008
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