Friday, 9 January 2015

Giardino #550


 
This is such a winner in our family.  It is usually full and buzzing with families and it is with great trepidation that we arrive here at 7pm.  More often than not we are gently turned away because tables are all occupied.  However, tonight the place is nearly empty.  We sit at a prized window table and marvel at the emptiness of it all.  We put it down to Dendy Park Carols by candlelight. 

To keep the running gag around light shades going, I will not that the lights are just the stock standard downlights.   We sit at the bare, basic,  wooden tables placed on the old terracotta floor tiles and listen to the phone ringing at the pizza station at the front of the restaurant.  Not flash, but neither are the prices.  This is the sort of bistro you take your kids to when you can’t be bothered cooking or need to celebrate the basketball end of season.

Sally orders a pizza and Mark orders a pasta – the usual yummy fair.  I go for something different and order lamb cutlets.  Basically, pasta or a large pizza is around $15, a bottle of wine at $20 and the lamb cutlets at $25.  So, it is a little bit of Lygon St but 33% more in price.

By the time I enjoy my tender lamb cutlet, people are spilling in and the happy murmur of voices ramps up.

Recommended.

No comments:

Post a Comment