February 13, 2014
This calendar week nosotros bid bye to some dearest friends who've quit their jobs to go the world; nosotros celebrated their 4 years inward Melbourne too upcoming jeopardy at Gills Diner. When this eating theater opened six-ish years agone cursory inquiry revealed that their churros were pop too they otherwise weren't also veg-friendly, hence I never bothered to investigate further. Their electrical flow carte du jour does accept several meat-free entrees too 1 mind hence nosotros lucifer inward fine on the night.
Gills Diner's atmosphere is non what I expected past times elevate or reputation. There's no booth seating or jukeboxes, but nor are at that topographic point starched tablecloths or smoothen tunes. The raw wooden tables, bare floors too chalkboard menus are those of a mess hall, with solely gothic candlesticks, fabric napkins too the prices indicating that this is one-hat dining.
There's proficient breadstuff too fancy butter, which I fairly pounced on when it arrived.
As an entree, nosotros each ordered a zucchini bloom ($7) too they were the teeniest flowers I've e'er seen, stuffed with ricotta too pino nuts, battered too fried, hence served with a fresh sweetcorn salsa.
We shared some other entree at mains time, a goats cheese pannacotta ($14) with spicy love apple tree salsa. It was to a greater extent than occupation solid than gelatinous, to my relief, but lacking a chip of bite; the accompanying salad didn't convey much of the promised spice either.
The vegetarian mind is... *yawn*... gnocchi with summertime vegetables too feta ($26). To hold out fair, these were great buttery picayune gnocchi, too the asparagus spears, sugariness beetroot too kale wisps stood out best with the veges.
We shared all the sides ($9 each) across the tabular array too. The kipfler potatoes were a highlight, smoky with paprika too garnished with roasted garlic. I also enjoyed the fennel too orangish salad too the rocket salad with sliced pear, gorgonzola too candied walnuts. However they were burdened with also much fossil oil too salt, a recurring work across all the savoury dishes - none of the vegetables actually got to shine.
We shared the ii chocolatey desserts across the table, but neither the churros ($12) nor the chocolate fondant ($16) lived upward to expectations. Even with nine of us present, they were left unfinished.
Wait times were reasonable too the service was professional, though nosotros would've liked to a greater extent than attending paid to our often-empty H2O bottles. Gills Diner isn't ideal for pesky-tarians, though its chefs could in all probability whisk upward something suitable with due alarm too a reservation. Vegetarians dining with friends tin skid happily nether the radar, but I intend our fine dining dollars are improve spent elsewhere inward this city.
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Fellow veg blogger Nouveau Potato says she's a happy repeat visitor to Gills Diner. The venue also gets positive feedback on melbourne gastronome, (Original) Eating with Jack, Gourmet Chick, Dave Plus Food, Love My Foods & Sugar, Eat, Cook, Drink, Tea with Mary, Laws of the Kitchen, Friday Night, Date Night, Let Me Feed You: Melbourne, Triple Cee, Barley Restaurant Reviews, Let's Get Fat Together too Food Fable, PETIT MIAMx too The Epicurean of Southbank, too failed to print my seasonal table too Gastrology.
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Gills Diner
Gills Alley, nurture of 360 Little Collins St, Melbourne CBD
9670 7214
Accessibility: The entry is broad too apartment but the tables within are pretty dense, the lighting is fairly dim too the dining room tin larn noisy. The mounted chalkboard menus mightiness hold out tough to read for the less agile too. There's total tabular array service, too I didn't see the toilets.
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