melrich

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  9      Service  8      Value  9     

This is a little hole in the wall restaurant in South Melbourne Market. It is a very small room but has lots of seating outside. I have rated this place very highly. The food is really good but is even better when you consider the low prices (if you know what I mean). Tapas sharing is the go here and we found everything to be really flavorsome and the servings were a good size.

May 28, 2012

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

7 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  7      Service  6      Value  8     

I first went to this restaurant around 15 years ago. I had a chance to visit again recently and was disappointed. Where once this was one of the best Thai/Asian restaurants in Australia, it has not kept pace with the current benchmarks.

The food is tasty, just not that exciting. Prices are Ok.

May 25, 2012

7.5 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  7      Service  8      Value  8     

This is not a place I would have normally considered but options for dinner after movies with the kids were limited. So we decided to brave it.

I have to say that this place really surprised me. The menu is big and probably what you would expect, steaks, tex mex, burgers, fries etc. The surprise was that the food was both reasonably well presented and tasty. The service was very efficient and friendly and all in all, if you are eating with kids this is a pretty good place to try. Should be something to please everyone.

May 07, 2012

5 Average

Food  4      Ambience  5      Service  5      Value  6     

Cheap but not very good. Food is edible but a real lack of attention to detail and many "japanese" dishes served here are bastardisations of the originals. I won't be back. Suggest there are many better Japanese options with 200 metres of this place.

May 04, 2012

6.5 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  6      Service  6      Value  7     

We had breakfast here and the omelette was very good, so too was the coffee. The menu is small but interesting and most of the food coming out looked great. Service a bit slow and the breakfast area is a bit cramped to be a relaxing place.

Apr 18, 2012

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  9      Service  8      Value  9     

This is a little hole in the wall restaurant in South Melbourne Market. It is a very small room but has lots of seating outside. I have rated this place very highly. The food is really good but is even better when you consider the low prices (if you know what I mean). Tapas sharing is the go here and we found everything to be really flavorsome and the servings were a good size.

May 28, 2012

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

7 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  7      Service  6      Value  8     

I first went to this restaurant around 15 years ago. I had a chance to visit again recently and was disappointed. Where once this was one of the best Thai/Asian restaurants in Australia, it has not kept pace with the current benchmarks.

The food is tasty, just not that exciting. Prices are Ok.

May 25, 2012

7.5 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  7      Service  8      Value  8     

This is not a place I would have normally considered but options for dinner after movies with the kids were limited. So we decided to brave it.

I have to say that this place really surprised me. The menu is big and probably what you would expect, steaks, tex mex, burgers, fries etc. The surprise was that the food was both reasonably well presented and tasty. The service was very efficient and friendly and all in all, if you are eating with kids this is a pretty good place to try. Should be something to please everyone.

May 07, 2012

5 Average

Food  4      Ambience  5      Service  5      Value  6     

Cheap but not very good. Food is edible but a real lack of attention to detail and many "japanese" dishes served here are bastardisations of the originals. I won't be back. Suggest there are many better Japanese options with 200 metres of this place.

May 04, 2012

6.5 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  6      Service  6      Value  7     

We had breakfast here and the omelette was very good, so too was the coffee. The menu is small but interesting and most of the food coming out looked great. Service a bit slow and the breakfast area is a bit cramped to be a relaxing place.

Apr 18, 2012

6.5 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  6      Service  5      Value  8     

This place is not much more than a hole in the wall with some outside seating areas. It is cheap and the food was surprisingly pretty good, especially the noodle dishes. Service is help yourself and don't expect real plates and cutlery, it is all of the takeaway variety but not a bad option if you are in the area.

Apr 11, 2012

7.8 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  8      Service  8      Value  8     

Second time I have eaten here and this place does good standard food in a fun atmosphere. Hardware Lane has a great feel about it and this place is in the middle of all the action. The menu is modern and well priced and the food is generally of a good standard - not fine dining but definaiely a notch above most modern Australian restaurants.

Wine list is Ok, you will find something that suits. If you can catch an outside table for lunch on a sunny day you will really enjoy the experience.

Mar 26, 2012

9 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  10      Value  8     

This place oozes that secret ingredient that money simply cannnot buy, character. The room feels like an event, it has age and that sense of "if only these walls could talk". The staff look professional and as though they belong in the grandness of the room. They are also extremely attentive and friendly and knowledgeable about the menu and the wines.

The menu is huge with 3 different degustation options, including a vegetarian and a big a la carte selection. No one could come to this place and complain they could not find something they liked.

We ate a la carte, I had the lobster tortellini followed by the pigeon. Both dishes were good. The lobster dish was very subtle but the flavor was extremely sophisticated. The pigeon was rich and gamey, just as you would expect. The other dishes that came to our table all looked great, in particular the blue spanner crab dish.

Big selection of wines, good food, great room, hard not to recommend this place. The only negative is that it is pricey with most mains around the $60 mark. But if you want a great Italian meal with a sense of occasion, this is the place to come to.

Mar 15, 2012

7.8 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  8      Service  7      Value  9     

We had lunch here and were pleasantly surprised at how much we enjoyed it. It helped that we had an outside table on a beautiful day and there was an interesting passing parade of people.

But the food was Ok, especially the Gyoza and the seaweed salad. The mixed sushi and sashimi platter was not the best I have had but it was passable and the prices were low, especially for Chapel St. So all in all we walked away pretty happy and would recommend this place if you are craving Japanese and are up this end of Chapel St.

Feb 07, 2012

7.5 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  7      Service  8      Value  8     

The room is small and somewhat noisy but it is nicely fitted and feels european. The menu is not expansive but the options are well thought out and there should be something to please everyone.

The food is Ok. As you would expect with a "french" restaurant, the sauces and gravies are full of time and flavor. The beef I had was a bit overcooked and dry.

Jan 24, 2012