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September 2, 2009: Zenzero Blu

Edit 11/03/2012: Zenzero Blu has forthwith been replaced past times Pinotta.

Haalo's photograph review giving us an thought of what to expect. Still, for $25, what could actually become wrong?

The vegie degustation has been introduced past times the Zenzero Blu folks over wintertime basically to larn people into the eatery during otherwise tedious months. And it's working - past times most 7:30 things were pretty jammed, too it seemed equally though most people were diving into the unbeatable $3.12 per course of report feast. The card is intriguing - it's difficult to actually selection a theme: things make from a lightly curried pumpkin soup, through arancini, nasi goreng too spud wedges. It's an strange mix. But a delicious i nonetheless.

First upward were a distich of snack plates: marinated olives on i too roti too dips on the other.

ve ridden along St Georges Road inwards recent months September 2, 2009: Zenzero BluRoti alongside dips turns out to hold upward a fantastic thought - I'm surprised it's never occurred to me before. And these elementary dips (a pesto too a tahini-heavy hummus) worked nicely alongside the crispy lilliputian breads. They fifty-fifty managed to serve things upward thus that the amounts of breadstuff too dips were reasonably balanced!

ve ridden along St Georges Road inwards recent months September 2, 2009: Zenzero BluThe olives were a mixed bag: roughly delicious big greenish ones, too a pile of tiny lilliputian kalamata-y ones that were a fleck annoying to consume (too much pip for besides lilliputian olive).

ve ridden along St Georges Road inwards recent months September 2, 2009: Zenzero BluNext upward it was soup time: a curried pumpkin soup served alongside fashionable stripes of appointment molasses too a dollop of labne. The pumpkin soup itself was fine, but the existent star was the appointment molasses - it's intriguing sweetness taking a fairly criterion dish somewhere a fleck to a greater extent than interesting.

Things jumped inwards an Italian administration next, alongside porcini too pumpkin arancini served inwards love apple tree sugo.

ve ridden along St Georges Road inwards recent months September 2, 2009: Zenzero BluThe arancini balls were a lilliputian disappointing - a fleck mushy too non peculiarly flavoursome. The sauce was a process though, oily too rich.

ve ridden along St Georges Road inwards recent months September 2, 2009: Zenzero BluNext upward was a bowl of sugariness spud wedges, alongside a dipping sauce of beetroot too creme fraiche. There's something most the texture of sugariness potatoes that agency I'm ever a lilliputian disappointed past times them inwards wedge or chip degree - the sense of savour is a prissy shift from regular spuds, but they simply neglect to crisp upward too supply the necessary texture. The dipping sauce was a prissy idea, but didn't actually knock our socks off.

ve ridden along St Georges Road inwards recent months September 2, 2009: Zenzero BluThings thus took a plough for the Asian, alongside nasi goreng topped alongside roughly sparse egg strips. This could bring used a fleck to a greater extent than zing - in that location were no crispy vegies bursting out of it too a fleck of chilli would bring combined alongside the lemon juice nicely. It was fine, but non peculiarly memorable.

Next upward was a refreshing salad of rocket, pumpkin too walnut served alongside an Asian sesame dressing.

ve ridden along St Georges Road inwards recent months September 2, 2009: Zenzero BluThe salad was a prissy Pb inwards to our final savoury course: warm breaded goast cheese alongside honey.

ve ridden along St Georges Road inwards recent months September 2, 2009: Zenzero BluThis was indulgent equally it sounds - it's difficult to larn inwards incorrect alongside fried cheese. Although I'm glad it was exclusively i slab of cheese each, I could experience my arteries starting to harden past times the fourth dimension I'd finished mine.

Finally, our dessert: a mini lemon-scented cheesecake alongside raspberry coulis.

ve ridden along St Georges Road inwards recent months September 2, 2009: Zenzero BluThis was the most successful dish of the black - a form of deconstructed cheesecake that had a prissy citrussy flavor too a berrylicious sauce. I holler upward Cindy would bring enjoyed a few courses of mini desserts, but for me this was simply the touching on of sugariness I needed to roll upward an 8 course of report extravaganza.

For $25, Zenzero Blu are churning out an amazing repast - it's difficult to imagine that they're making whatever coin at all on the food. It's varied (maybe a lilliputian scattershot), tasty too good portioned, the service is friendly too helpful too I would highly recommend a see hither to anyone looking for an affordable but slightly special black out. The exclusively downside: Cindy too I felt similar in that location wasn't much served upward that nosotros couldn't bring produced at habitation (more tardily too expensively no doubt).

H5N1 banking venture annotation for vegans: spell the card stresses that in that location are no alterations, friends of ours had a someone component subdivision in that location too enjoyed a similar 8 course of report vegan feast, thus if y'all telephone phone ahead they could belike operate something out for you.

Address: 32 Best Street, North Fitzroy
Ph: 9481 3393
Licensed
Price: $25 for eight(!) courses
Website: http://www.zenzeroblu.com/

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