Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Birdman Eating Iii
Edit 11/03/2016: several breakfasts, nosotros solely late looked over their level tapas card in addition to gave it a go. It was a adventure to accept our friend Mike in that place - he's got this matter against shared plates - but later a petty spell wandering the neighbourhood, existence turned away from in addition to individually vetoing other restaurants inwards turn, nosotros persuaded him to endeavor it. The menu's merely over one-half vegetarian in addition to had a few items I was real smashing to try.
Our waiter was a flake distant, merely barely helpful in addition to non actually friendly, but successfully committed our fellowship to memory.
First to instruct inwards was the fried haloumi alongside a salad of carmine rice, dried sour cherries in addition to pistachios ($15). Having enjoyed the flavour riots that are Ottolenghi's grain salads all year, this was disappointing. I couldn't sense of savor the cherries or pistachios at all.
Unfortunately later our commencement plate, in that place was a long hold off earlier nosotros saw whatsoever to a greater extent than food. This was a petty surprising, since the eating theatre was at best one-half full.
The residuum of our fellowship arrived all at once. The confit kipfler potatoes alongside chilli common salt in addition to vanilla aioli ($9.50) were the highlight - a petty greasy, but beautifully seasoned. The unexpected vanilla didn't stand upwardly out.
Meanwhile, the ricotta gnocchi alongside bluish cheese, pear in addition to chives ($16.50) didn't actually come upwardly together. The gnocchi were large in addition to bland, the bluish cheese appeared every bit a few dry out clumps... without a sauce these were merely disparate ingredients inwards a pan.
It was non a functioning to convert Mike to tapas. Yet having paid petty to a greater extent than than $20 each to consume the residuum of us didn't experience awfully cheated. If the dishes had lived upwardly to their descriptions in addition to we'd enjoyed the surroundings a petty more, nosotros would compass got been happy indeed alongside the price. Since they in addition to nosotros didn't, our side yesteryear side repast out alongside Mike is probable to involve jumbo burritos.
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You tin read almost our visits to Birdman Eating for breakfast here in addition to here. Meanwhile, the tapas card has received real mixed reviews from others; run across Foodie About Town, The Love nosotros brand - The Love nosotros take, Out of my kitchen, Fill My Belly inwards Melbourne, The Gourmet Challenge in addition to The Neo Melbournian.
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Birdman Eating
238 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
9416 4747
veg tapas $7.50-17.50
http://www.birdmaneating.com.au/
Accessibility: Tables exterior are on a sloping footpath. There's a pocket-size pace on entry in addition to tables are a petty crowded. There's amount tabular array service. We didn't see the toilets.
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