US South, Cindy kept her finger on the Melbourne nutrient pulse as well as sent roughly an e-mail reminding me of The Age's Winter Restaurant Express - a week-long advertisement where some of Melbourne's fanciest restaurants offering two-course lunches alongside a drinking glass of vino for simply $30. We'd visited Oyster the terminal fourth dimension this variety of advertisement was on, as well as been simply slightly underwhelmed past times the vego dish on offer. We were wowed past times Cafe Vue's vego operate at their cocktail night, then nosotros had high hopes that Bistro Vue would come upward through for us this fourth dimension around.
We turned upward a piddling late, as well as were worried that nosotros were going to live on hurried through the repast then nosotros weren't inwards the agency of the minute tiffin sitting. The eating theater didn't look also busy, but nosotros yet felt a piddling pressure level from the staff to instruct ourselves inwards as well as out fairly quickly. It took some of the fun out of the whole meal, but it was at to the lowest degree one-half our error then it's difficult to live on also upset.The carte du jour at these $30 especial events commonly includes an entree, a span of mains as well as a dessert, as well as each diner gets to pick either the dessert or entree to become alongside their alternative of main. Unfortunately, in that location was no vegetarian entree option, important that both Cindy as well as I were forced to become alongside the master copy as well as the dessert (well, me anyway - Cindy wouldn't accept had it whatever other way). The vego master copy was a butternut risoni - non quite some other risotto, but non that far away, as well as non quite equally imaginative equally I'd hoped for.
Still, it was richly flavoured, dotted alongside scrumptious goat's cheese as well as was warm as well as filling - non bad for a typical Melbourne August day.The dessert for the twenty-four hours was a pistachio crème brûlée, served upward alongside a piddling blob of grapefruit H2O ice cream plopped on a slightly cardboardy wafer. The crème brûlée was perfectly made, alongside a brittle, caramelised acme simply waiting to live on cracked open. The stunning dark-green was presumably meant to highlight the pistachio content, but the flavor was overpoweringly amaretto-based. Again - quite practiced without beingness equally stunning equally I'd imagined. Perhaps my expectations for the whole repast were simply a piddling also high.
Still, nosotros left alongside a practiced feeling - the eating theater serving upward some weird piddling muffin treats to become along alongside our coffees. They weren't outstanding (the muffins - the coffees were great), but whatever variety of bonus process similar this leaves y'all alongside a smiling on your face.
So, again, Cindy as well as I were a chip permit downwards past times the $30 fancy tiffin special. Perhaps nosotros simply accept unreasonably high expectations, or perchance these are the variety of situations where restaurants don't laissez passer on a lot of idea to the vegetarian options - both hither as well as at Oyster they felt a piddling tacked on. Maybe we're amend off booking inwards for the super-expensive degustation-type events, where the vego materials tends to live on a piddling to a greater extent than imaginative.Address: 430 Little Collins Street (entrance on New Chancery Lane)
Phone: 9691 3838
Licensed
Price: Lunch
Website: http://www.vuedemonde.com.au/bistro-vue.aspx
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