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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Dinner @ Church St Enoteca

A casual tweet that wagyu rib eye on the bone had just come in certainly attracted our attention and it didn't take us too long to decide to head over and try our luck.

Because of the size of the rib eye, this is a dish for two and takes about an hour so we ordered our dishes to take this into account.

To celebrate this meat feast, there's no better way to start then with a selection of cured meats.

church st enoteca© by Haalo


There's Joselito Jamon, Speck, Ron's Fennel Salami,  Fratelli Galloni Prosciutto, Sopressa a veritable greatest hits of the cured meat world.

Next up is a celebration of the season

church st enoteca© by Haalo

yes, I know it's a really terrible photo but as I refuse to be one of those wankers that bring their DSLR to a restaurant you'll just have to live with it and don't get me started on those that bring tripods.

It's a delicious jumble of asparagus and morels with a sprinkling of pangrattato.

Here's a before shot of our rib eye

church st enoteca©

you can just hear homer simpson gurgling at the sight of this.

church st enoteca© by Haalo

teasingly the accompaniments came out first - there's horseradish cream, red wine jus, herb sauce, mashed potato, endive salad and pomme frittes - and then the star attraction followed

church st enoteca© by Haalo

When we saw it we both though that there's no way we're going to eat all that and joked about having wagyu sandwiches for lunch but quite an amazing thing happened. As we ate some of the sliced pieces we couldn't believe how light the meat was. It didn't have that denseness that you find with regular beef. It wasn't long after that we realised there'd be no sandwiches.

Of the accompaniments we both thought that the endive salad was a brilliant idea - that pleasant bitterness and crunch was an excellent match to the beef and in a way cleansed your palate and left it renewed.

It's easy to bandy about superlatives but this must rank up there as the best piece of meat we've every had - forget Rockpool, this was spectacular.

The details:

Church St. Enoteca
527 Church Street, Richmond

Phone: 9428 7898

Restaurant Open:
Lunch: Monday-Friday 12-3pm
Dinner: Monday-Saturday 6pm to late

Web:
www.churchstenoteca.com.au

5 comments:

  1. Nothing wrong with bringing an SLR to a restaurant. I agree on the tripod comment, or even using a flash, but whiping out an SLR to take a couple of quick shots is not a big deal IMO

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  2. Two things - it's never a couple of quick shots, taking an SLR implies a certain personality and second, click click click, shutter sound is annoying

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  3. What is the personality? Someone who likes to get some quality pictures?

    I can understand if you are at a fancy resturant with couples only...where no one is hardly talking, it makes it akward.

    I would rather hear the sound of SLR going off, then say...someone with an annoying laugh, or someoen talking on their phone.

    I keep my SLR on the floor, and take 2 pictures max per dish. click click, and im done.

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  4. Quality photos have nothing to do with an SLR. A sound of someone laughing is part of the human experience, someone talking on their phone, well that is ill mannered.
    If you are in a group of 4, 2 pictures per dish will add up, that would make 8 clicks per course, that's not very subtle.

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  5. Quality photos have nothing to do with an SLR. A sound of someone laughing is part of the human experience, someone talking on their phone, well that is ill mannered.
    If you are in a group of 4, 2 pictures per dish will add up, that would make 8 clicks per course, that's not very subtle.

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