Commercial Social Club Hotel

December 29, 2012

We've had Cindy's blood brother staying alongside us over the Christmas intermission together with he's been pretty swell to encounter how Melbourne's pub meals compare alongside those dorsum inwards the province town he calls home. We took him to the almost old-school pub nosotros could intend of inwards our neighbourhood - the Commercial Club Hotel on Nicholson Street. I'd had a pleasant (and unblogged) repast at that topographic point a few months dorsum together with idea it would fit the bill.

It's a pretty charming pub: a big front end bar, a dining room alongside a few strange nooks together with crannies together with a lovely-looking courtyard out the back. Melbourne's summertime was non at its almost ferocious, together with hence nosotros settled indoors together with sized upward our options. The card is pretty simple: a handful of pizzas, a veggie burger, a dhal together with a pot pie (along alongside traditional meatier options).

I've function pretty predictable at pubs, ever willing to give a veg burger a endeavour (if only to brand certain I larn a side of chips). At $13, this was a pretty skillful value version. The mixed veggie patty (bound alongside egg maybe?) was surprisingly fresh together with tasty - a far outcry from the defrosted veggie burgers that sometimes places purpose for the meat-free burger option. It was drenched inwards mayo, together with served alongside a fairly touchstone salad (greens, beetroot, tomato, cheese) - cheap, satisfying together with incredibly messy to eat.

Cindy ordered the lentil together with mushroom pot pie, alongside cheesy squash ($15), only to uncovering out that they were out of its ingredients. Instead, they whipped upward a like dish, but alongside chickpeas together with pumpkin equally the brain filling ingredients.

Cindy was a flake disappointed that the pot pie was exclusively pastry free, together with the squash topping wasn't quite equally cheesy equally I expected, but the filling was nicely spiced together with hearty - a skillful filling repast for a cool summer's night. 

In damage of nutrient alone, The Commercial Club Hotel is in all probability outmatched past times a bunch of other inner-north pubs but it does a overnice business inwards affordable, unpretentious pub-food, served inwards an uncrowded, friendly venue. It's overnice to accept it equally a lazy local option.

 

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The Commercial Club is surprisingly under-reviewed, alongside merely i positive review from juganaut's foodie thoughts.

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Commercial Club Hotel
344 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy
9419 1522
Pizzas $10, other veggie mains $13-$15
http://www.commercialclubhotel.com.au/

Accessibility: The Commercial Club has a modest footstep on entry together with is apartment together with pretty spacious inside. Ordering together with payment happens at a high bar. We didn't see the toilets.