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Archive for Melbourne

Eating Melbourne – Sovereign Hill

Mar23

Restaurant: Sovereign Hill

Location: Bradshaw St, Golden Point VIC 3350, Australia

Date: December 31, 2017

Cuisine: Hard to tell

Rating: Better than it would have been in the US

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For completeness in posting all the meals I photographed we have a lunch at the interesting reconstructed gold rush town of Sovereign Hill.

Here is the main pump for pumping water out of the mines. I hadn’t realized before coming to Australia that it also had a 19th century gold rush much like California.

Simple pasta.

Fish and Chips. Again!

Pumpkin salad. With feta and pomegranates. You wouldn’t see this at an American tourist place.
 And catering to the Chinese tourist some kind of vaguely Asian chicken with rice. Not bad although not great either.

Decent for where it was.

For more Australia dining reviews click here.

Related posts:

  1. Eating Melbourne – Sarti
  2. Eating Sydney – Leura Gourmet
  3. Eating Barossa – Artisans
  4. Eating Adelaide – Skyline
  5. Eating Cairns – Tamarind
By: agavin
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Eating Melbourne – Sarti

Mar09

Restaurant: Sarti

Location: 6 Russell Pl, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Date: December 31, 2017

Cuisine: Italian

Rating: Very good Italian

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Our final dinner in Australia was New Years Eve and we went to this excellent Italian restaurant…

Pretty front hidden on a side street.

Inside, bar, etc.

Outside patio currently hosting a private party.

Italian all the way.

The special New Year’s menu.

I ordered this nice Australian chard.

Trota Marinata. Semi cured ocean trout, white radish, grapefruit, salmon roe.

Rotolo di Coniglio. Rolled rabbit, quinoa salad, walnuts, baby carrots.

Fiori di Zucca. Zucchini flowers filled with goat’s cheese and chives.

Insalata di Polipo. Octopus salad, avocado puree, pomegranate.

Zucchini and goat cheese foam.

Il Pesce. Pan seared Barramundi, baby cucumber, orange, caramelized witlof.

Risotto alle Verdure. Pea pisotto, sugar snap peas, mascarpone, mint.

Green salad with nuts.

Fries.

Spaghetti alla Chitarra. Black ink pasta, WA blue swimmer crab, fresh tomato, garlic, chili.

Chocolate ice cream.

Pietre di Frutta della Passione. Passion fruit stones, what chocolate sponge, basil.

The crew at the table.

Downtown Melbourne

Overall, a very nice Italian meal. Australia has a lot of Italians and quite good Italian food. This was in that modern Italian style.

For more Australia dining reviews click here.

Related posts:

  1. Eating Tasmania – Tasman
  2. Eating Sydney – Salt Meats Cheese
  3. Eating Barossa – Artisans
  4. Eating Sydney – Oyster Bar
  5. Eating Uluru – Sails in the Desert
By: agavin
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