cookie: melbourne

I highly recommend visiting this place if you are every in Melbourne and you are stuck for ideas for dinner and/or drinks. It’s a great cocktail bar and the food is excellent.

I was in Melbourne recently for work and was able to catch up with some colleagues for dinner and a drink or two. There was already a large group of people there, and I arrived with three other people. We sat down and got some menus. When the waiter returned I asked if it was possible to have anything plain that was on the menu, plain chicken, plain steak, plain fish. He said he’d go check with the kitchen.

On he’s return he said that the steak could be done plain, and that the prawns could also be done plain if need be. Perfect I said, totally plain steak it is. Then my friend jumped in and mentioned that he was gluten intolerant but was interested in the pork belly and another entrée. The waiter said sure, one sec I’ll go check with the kitchen, he took one step, and then came back and asked our other two companions “anything else I should check while I’m there?”. Hehe.

When he came back this time, he said the pork belly could be done gluten free. So our tabled ordered two serves of pork belly, one gluten free, and two steaks, one totally plain.

My friend also ordered a “Vesper” cocktail and asked for the Chopin vodka instead of the regular vodka. Chopin is one of two potato-based vodka’s we have found in Australia so far. When the cocktail came out, the waiter (a different guy) put it down and said “one gluten free vesper”.

Firstly I had to share this story because I still find it funny. But secondly this only emphasis's my recommendation for eating and drinking here. The staff were very accommodating and took it all in their stride, the food was delicious and the drinks are fantastic.

http://www.cookie.net.au/