Monday, April 22, 2013
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Thursday night sees me attend a 10 dollar for every main special, open to the public, at City Hotel featuring their revamped menu.
It's located where all the buisness goers are. Featuring a much darker room, sleek and accompanied by plush leather lounges and chandeliers, it's classy without being too intimidating. Definitely not what you would expect from the outside. There's also an acoustic band that plays at the back at 7pm.
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| Antipasto Platter 18 |
Their antipasto plate comes staked. You get eggplants, sweet and charred red peppers, sun dried tomatoes, olives, grilled turkish bread, marinated fetta, artichoke hearts, slightly crispy chorizo and thin proscuitto. It's nice although the salt on salt on salt on salt from nearly every element starts become a little too much. Maybe use boccocini removed from its brine instead of the feta and an additional exciting zingy unseasoned salad and that's probably a good start.
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| 'Singapore Style' Chilli Crab 19 |
It's sweet and slightly spicy with a decent amount of crab and it's got a pleasant noticeable ginger aroma around it. It does taste nice although it in no way near evokes the sort of memories I have of sitting in the blistering hot sun, tucking away at a steaming pile of proper Singapore chilli crab.
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| Pan Seared Atlantic Salmon Fillet 20 |
On the other hand, their salmon on the health conscious menu is a standout. Crisp salmon skin and moist flesh. Quinoa. Roasted sweet beets on a bed of chunky pea puree. Magic. What more can I say? What more can you ask for?
Whilst the food isn't that amazing not particularly memorable, it is certainly good valued and what you'd expect from a pub. When Rachel (events manager) emailed me about the 10 dollar special and promised we'd be rolling afterwards, I was skeptical. They nearly needed a stretcher to bring me out of the bar honestly. You should probably factor in the 10 dollar special for every main that happened only for that particular night but even without it, it's priced decently especially when you rock up for their 2 4 1 (2 for 1, took me a while too) cocktail nights on Thursdays or their specials.
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