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The restaurant is a wine bar with a kitchen behind the counter visible to patrons. Most food in the restaurant is cooked in a wood-fired coven. Gourmet Traveller has described the food served as 'simple' and 'smart, comforting'. [2] [6] The roast chicken received particular praise. [2] The second-hand interior furniture is sourced from New ...
Leon Massoni sold his share of the restaurant to his partner George, and later owned restaurants including 'Ristorante Massoni' with his partner in business Pietro Grossi, the father of Guy who as of 1999 ran 'Grossi Florentino'. [7] George Tsindos ended a 50-year era by selling The Florentino to Italian Restaurant Melbourne CBD. [8]
Stalactites is a Greek-Australian restaurant in Melbourne, Australia. [1] [2] [3] It is located on Lonsdale street in the Melbourne's CBD's Greek quarter. [4] [5] The restaurant was founded in 1978 by Konstantinos Tsoutouras, also known as Barba Kostas. [2] He had previously opened other chain restaurants and fish and chips stores, before ...
The Flower Drum was established by Gilbert Lau and opened on 26 May 1975. [5] The restaurant originally opened in a converted car park at 103 Little Bourke Street and took its name from the 1961 film, Flower Drum Song, a Rogers and Hammersein musical about expatriate Chinese and their life in America.
In 2014, Pellegrini's was inducted into the Good Café Guide Hall of Fame. [4] The café is listed by the National Trust of Australia. [5]Co-owner of the café, Sisto Malaspina, was murdered during the 2018 Melbourne stabbing attack, which prompted a significant outpouring of grief, with mourners leaving flowers and signing a tribute book to Malaspina. [6]
The Waiter's Restaurant is an Italian restaurant in Melbourne, Australia, described as a "Melbourne institution". [1] Founded in 1947 as the Italian Waiter's Club, it was initially a place for waiters (mainly of Italian and Spanish heritage) to have a meal, a drink and play cards after their work - in breach of the very strict liquor licensing laws in place at the time.
The menu provided a limited choice, as did the wine list. However, unlimited alcohol was included in the fixed, prepaid meal price. On 11 August 2012, 30 diners and three staff had to be evacuated from restaurant tramcar #05 (SW6.964) after it caught fire in East Melbourne [9] on Nicholson Street.
Attica is a fine-dining restaurant in Melbourne, Australia, owned and operated by Ben Shewry.It has won several awards in Australia, and has been included in The World's 50 Best Restaurants since 2010.