For example, I am working on a "Krank" at work at the moment; part Kransky and part Frank, it tastes like a delicious kransky but in the convenient, bun size of a frank.
Some fellow "mashed" a mobile phone with a hand held gaming device and got an iphone.
Some other dude "mashed" a surf board and roller skates and cane up with a skate board and we are still waiting for someone to mash (sick of putting it in "") the skateboard with an antigravity device and provide us with the much anticipated and needed hoverboard.
So it only right that someone on Glenhuntly Rd takes the middle eastern cuisine that we have been enjoying over the past year in our travels up and down this road and mashed it with the ever popular pizza. This is where we are now; Moors Head.
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| A wall of cans |
They offer mezze (tapas style dishes like dips, meatballs, cured beef), salad (including a Roquette that involves shankleesh (spiced and dried cheese) and Iranian raisons). Wow, a bracket within a bracket - my grammar is at a new low.
And Round Pizzas called Manoushe and Long Pizzas called Pide. There is then middle eastern desserts and a nice compact drinks list full of interesting stuff.
The pizzas are all named interestingly but I am no au fait with Iranian in jokes so don't really "get" them.
We order:
Mezze : Fresh cut Lebanese cucumber, salt, evoo, nigella ($6)
Mezze: Dip with house baked bread ($8)
Manoushe: "Fred the Dead". Free range chicken minced with baharat and garlic, green olives, roquette, tahini yogurt ($19.5)
Manoushe: "Emir Bashir II" Hummus, beef sujuk, fresh tomato, olives, parsley ($19.5)
Pide: "The Bosphourus" Tomato, prawns, chilli, garlic, coriander
Pide: "Istanbuli" Pumpkin, spinach, caramelised onion, tahini yogurt, dukkah ($18)
Pide: "Omar Sharif" 3 cheese, oregano, nigella mint, soused onions ($17.5).
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| The most delicious cucumber ever |
We are here on a Monday night, the whole family, celebrating the end of Matt's school year and having an early Christmas dinner because Matt is leaving for Paris for 6 weeks. He opens his presents.
The place is busy. We sit at a pine veneer table and admire the Michael Esher type decorated bar as well as the can covered wall, not sure what was in the cans before they were stuck on the wall. The waiter is gorgeous and has a great smile and gracious manner.
Moors Head really plays up it's inauthenticity - a clever marketing position given the plethora of restaurants which talk about being true to a provenance. I like the playfulness, Still they obviously care about the food - it is delicious.
The 3 cheeses pizza is subtly flavoured with lemon which makes it shine. We loved the lamb pizza on the moreish crunchy pide. The pumpkin pizza is spicy and sophisticated.
The simplicity and honesty of the beef salami pizza was beautiful - I eat salami everyday for work - this is special.
All pizzas are served unsliced and accompanied by an industrial pizza slicer so we can do our own. A great touch.
We LOVE this place. Highly recommended. We are returning.
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