January 9, 2008: Bimbo Deluxe

Although Michael lunched at Bimbo Deluxe inwards his start calendar week of living inwards Melbourne, it's taken me 17 months to larn my oral fissure roughly ane of Bimbo's famous $4 pizzas. There stimulate got been a few opportunities, but the trounce of hipsters at elevation times has set me off. And Bimbo Deluxe is relentlessly as well as grungily hip: a dimly lit bar amongst big sometime couches as well as retro fittings, such every bit vinyl records decorating the wall. The kids amongst nonsensical hats as well as haircuts as well as the just-too-loud music reminded me that piece all the same inwards my 20s, I'm sometime as well as cranky. Apparently the roof-garden upstairs is brighter as well as breezier, but it's super-popular as well as at that spot are rarely spare seats. At 7:00 on a weeknight, the entry marking seating is pleasant as well as roomy plenty anyway.

Dinner is all nigh pizza: of the nineteen types on the menu, an impressive xi are vegetarian. (Check out the bill of fare for yourself at their website, if you lot tin navigate roughly the trendy pictures.) The prices are e'er skillful (none of the pizzas top $8), but inwards elevation times they're a bewildering $4. Apparently Bimbo makes a loss on every ane of them as well as then makes it upward on drinks, every bit evident from the $4.50 half-pints nosotros drank. The pizzas are the size of the dinner plate as well as stimulate got a sparse base, alternately crispy as well as chewy. I mean value the size is bang-on to serve ane comfortably.

We tried the El Greco (in the background of the photo): it's topped amongst haloumi cheese, light-green olives as well as a wedge of lemon. It's a guilty-delicious oil-fest as well as so, thus salty. (That' second how they larn you lot buyin' upward on the beer, I guess.) The Funghi was a lilliputian to a greater extent than nourishing, amongst lots of fleshy black mushrooms, a restrained sprinkle of cheese as well as smattering of herbs. H5N1 smarter daughter than I would also lodge a salad on the side.

There are also a few sweetness pizzas on offer, but nosotros were inwards no country to sample them. Haloumi takes all.

Address: 376 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
Ph: 9419 8600
Licensed
Price: veg pizzas $4.90-$7.90, all $4 each during elevation times
Website: www.bimbodeluxe.com.au