26 Sep

Since 2011, The Last Jar has been serving up traditional Irish cuisine out of the former Royal Artillery Hotel building, which was previously home to The Arthouse. Having originally met whilst working together at Michelin-starred The Commons in Dublin, Siobhan Dooley and Tim Sweeney now co-own and run this Irish gastropub. Sweeney has an impressive CV, working at other Michelin-starred restaurants including Petrus and Thornton's (by Gordon Ramsay) and also Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant. The kitchen at The Last Jar makes as much as possible from scratch, from the...

15:43 / Bar/Pub / Food / Irish / Melbourne CBD / Restaurants / The Last Jar
10 Apr

Limerick Arms is a popular traditional pub with a variety of seating: bistro, bar and outdoors. As well as the regular menu, they had a pasta, salad and pie daily specials available. Similar to other pubs they have various lunch and dinner specials offered during the week. It appeared that most people came here for the chicken parmas, particularly the Mexican parma, and it did look very good. We were warned that there would be a 45 minute wait on the food as it was quite busy. The...

15:40 / Bar/Pub / Food / Limerick Arms Hotel / Restaurants / South Melbourne / Thai
14 Jan

I wanted to go to O Des Lys for dinner because it was only ~5 minutes’ walk away and it’s been rated well, but it was fully booked. We went around looking for something to eat. The first place we saw was even more expensive the O Des Lys. The second one was a pub sort of restaurant called Grill St Jean Restaurant. I didn’t think it looked too promising, but mum didn’t want to walk anymore, so in we went. Dad had braised duck leg with grapes and...

22:29 / Bar/Pub / France / French / Grill St Jean Restaurant / Troyes
23 Oct

A 2-hour group assignment meeting quickly morphed into a 5-hour long no-breaks marathon where people were starting to become hangry but also wanted to get the assignment over and done with. By the time we finished, I was concerned that Chuckle Park would no longer be serving their famed pulled pork rolls, which apparently sometimes sell out. Fortunately they were, despite it being nearly 4pm, and I had the pleasure of tucking into a crusty white roll packed with (tumeric?) spiced, slow-cooked pork. The coleslaw gave the roll...

17:53 / Bar/Pub / Burgers / Chuckle Park / Food / Melbourne CBD / Restaurants
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