Category: Dulwich Hill

Tony’s Table

It took us quite a while before figuring out that Tony’s Table is a restaurant that we could try. You couldn’t really see the table setting from the outside as it was only a ramp down to the table area.

Their menu is on the premium price range with most main priced between $24 and $42.

If there are not many of you, I’d suggest the rice menu entree size with another dish should be more than enough.

Complimentary Lebanese bread and deep fried bread

Just like in any Lebanese restaurants in Australia, complimentary bread is unquestionable. Tony’s table treated us even further with the deep fried bread!

The dishes at Tony’s Table

Kebe Nayeh – $26 – Raw minced lamb mixed with crushed wheat, herbs and spices. Served with fresh mint and vegetables.

When we see kebe nayeh in a restaurant, we were always so keen to try. If you were wondering if I really wrote ‘raw minced lamb’, the answer is ‘yes’. It’s pretty similar in texture to Beef tartare. However, the mixture was different.

We ordered the dish with an extra garlic sauce on the side. Their kebe nayeh was so fresh and delicious. The complimentary fried Lebanese bread actually worked perfectly!

Siyadiyeh (fish) – $25 – Rice, infused with herbs and spices, and served with toasted nuts.

We actually didn’t know what it was. We just picked this from the list.

It turned out quite well. Since we chose the main size, the portion was quite large with a generous serving of fish, rice and nuts.

Mixed Grill – $30 – Two chicken, one kafta and one lamb skewer. Served with BBQ potato & side salad.

When we ordered the mixed grill, they were offering if we wanted to have a different combination than the menu. However, we stick to what was written.

The meat was very tender and juicy. They also provided a decent amount of sides with the mixed grill.

Knafeh – $15 – Baked fine semolina cream, topped with toasted bread crumbs, and served with rosewater syrup.

Knafeh… yumm!

They were very well made!

The final verdict for Tony’s Table

Having a restaurant pretty close to our home that serves awesome Kebe Nayeh… I can’t ask for more!

Do you think I should go?

The venue is very nice for a special occasion. Having said that, we did try to go there when the venue was booked for a wedding.

Rating:

Tony’s Table

8.0 / 10

Taste: 8.0 / 10

Price: $30 – $40 per person

Place: 8.0 / 10

Details:

Shop 1 / 805 New Canterbury Road, Dulwich Hill 2203

+61 2 8054 9598

http://www.tonysrestaurant.com.au/

Sep 20, 2019
The Eate, On The Spit and Off The Grill

The Eate Review:

I don’t know what the best description for The Eate. Personally, I think it is as an upmarket charcoal chicken and/or burger joint.

Looking at their menu, they put much emphasis on their spit roast meats. Burgers and Yiros are the next main items in the menu.

Spiced Eggplant Chips – $10 – with pomegranate, mint & parsley

Every once in a a while you find something on the menu that is very unusual and make you wonder how it would taste. Eggplant chips is one of them for me. Seriously, how can you resist deep fried eggplant?

The Fish – $12 – Flathead fillet with herb aioli, chesse, lettuce, guindillas

Before writing this review, I have to google guindillas first. Apparently it is a Spanish word for chili peppers. Don’t be alarmed, the guindillas they used were super mild.

Yiros – $11.5 – Spiced chicken with onion, parsley, guindillas, shallots, garlic sauce, tomato, chips, in fresh made pita

A friend of ours told me that when you visited The Eate you must order their charcoal chicken. Their spiced chicken is actually a derivative of the charcoal chicken, enhanced further with spices for the yiros.

Small salad – $6

They have a few different salad dishes you can choose from over the counter. If you are feeling a bit peckish you might want to order some.

Latte – $3.50

Their coffee is actually not bad when compared to the ones around the area.

The final verdict for The Eate

The Eate is quite a decent burger/yiros joint. You might want to try their charcoal chicken when you are there.

Did you know?

The Eate’s location is a bit out of the way in Dulwich Hill unless you came by light rail. It is just next to the Dulwich Grove station.

Rating for The Eate:

7.0 / 10

Taste: 7.0 / 10

Price: $15 – $20 per person

Place: 7.0 / 10

Details:

555 New Canterbury Road, Dulwich Hill 2203

+61 2 9568 3283

http://www.theeate.com.au/

Sep 18, 2017
Manmaru

Manmaru Review:

There is a little cafe in Dulwich Hill that has recently been transformed to a Japanese-inspired cafe called Manmaru by its owners. Their menu heavily features vegetarian, vegan and gluten free options. The fun part is: they don’t have a fixed menu. They change the menu according to the fresh produce they could find on the day. Interestingly, they managed to combine Japanese ingredients with your usual Australian brunch options.

Miso Beef Brisket – $10 – with asian slaw shichimimayo

The burger might be the cheapest and simpler item on the blackboard that day. However, the brisket was so tasty and worked really well with the asian slaw.

Koji scrambled egg – $16 – with miso butter mushroom

The koji scrambled egg looked like a simple egg, mushroom and a few slices of toast. However, that mushroom is anything but simple. They are jam-packed full of flavour!

Organic lamb with sweet potato – $13 – with housemade tomato chutney and salad

There were four different pies that day. They ran out of our first choice, chicken leek and mushroom. Considering that we are not big on black beans and vegetarian option, our pick went to organic lamb. The pie had a more middle-eastern influence.

White chocolate matcha latte – $6

Considering it’s quite a cold day last week. The white chocolate matcha latte really suited the occasion. The cold weather did not stop the kids to try their rose lychee milkshake tho!

The final verdict for Manmaru

I like a little variety for my brunch. Manmaru delivered a Japanese-inspired brunch that was quite a rarity in Inner West, or even Sydney.

Did you know?

Manmaru also has little cakes and pastries if you are looking for a more bite-sized treat.

Rating for Manmaru:

7.0 / 10

Taste: 7.0 / 10

Price: $10 – $18 per dish

Place: 7.5 / 10

Details:

495 Marrickville Road, Dulwich Hill 2203

+61 4 1456 6624

https://www.manmaru.com.au/

Jul 21, 2017
Good Feeling Thai

Good Feeling Thai Restaurant Review:

Good Feeling Thai restaurant is one of the newest restaurants in the Inner West, Sydney. It is located in the Dulwich Hill shopping area. They have a few of the usual dishes you see in a typical Thai restaurant. They also have a few interesting ones. We did not get to try many dishes on this occasion.

Gang Phed Pad Yang – $18.90 – Grilled roasted duck in curry and vegetables

I love eating duck. When visiting a new restaurant, duck is the ingredient that I would try to find first. I’m not quite sure about grilled roast duck as the menu stated. To me, it looks just like a roast duck. It was quite a sweet and savoury curry.

Pad Thai Pu Nim – $18.90 – Special pad thai with egg net and soft shell crab

Pad Thai is probably the most well-known Thai dish in Sydney. It is so famous that you could even find pad thai in a non-Thai restaurant!

Good Feeling Thai tweaked the recipe a bit. Instead of serving the usual rice noodles with something, they put this elaborate display. They introduced soft shell crab to complement the dish with its crunch and savoury flavour. They also blanketed the pad thai with egg net. The Good Feeling’s Pad Thai was very nice.

Fresh Coconut Juice – $6.00

I guess they could say it is just a fresh coconut. I love coconut when you can still scrape its inner wall and enjoy the fruit!

The final verdict for Good Feeling Thai Restaurant

Good Feeling Thai Restaurant is a restaurant worth coming back to. Their price was quite decent for the area and they have nice duck and pad thai dishes.

Did you know?
Good Feeling Thai restaurant serves halal food. There are not too many halal options in Inner West. This part of Inner West is actually more known for the Vietnamese restaurants.

Rating for Good Feeling Thai Restaurant:

7.5 / 10

Taste: 7.5 / 10

Price: $14.50 – $19 per main dish

Place: 7.5 / 10

Details:

Shop 1 / 362 – 372 New Canterbury Road, Dulwich Hill

+61 2 9518 3185

Jun 15, 2017
Tella Balls Dessert Bar

Review:

One of the few dessert places that I actually reviewed in my food blog. Tella Balls Dessert Bar was opened at the beginning of this year and so far I have never seen a shortage of customers on weekends. It is only one of a few dessert-only places in Inner West and… to make it rarer… they also open until quite late at night!

The original Tella Balls Shake (TBS) – $10 – topped with Nutella Tella Ball

This is the one that’s originally got everyone talking. When you think about it, it’s just a simple Nutella-filled donut sitting on top of a glass of Nutella milkshake. However, our naughty inner self seemingly could not resist the temptation of that ridiculously exciting guilty pleasure!

On a separate occasion, I also tried the salty caramel one with the different being the Salty Caramel filling instead of Nutella.

Tella Balls – $9 – Brioche Style Donut Balls injected with your favourite flavours (served with vanilla bean gelato)

If you want just a simple tella ball… well you can’t, unless if you order it for takeaway… the simplest you can get is tella balls with a scoop of vanilla gelato for $9. I guess it’s a good way to upsell and capitalise on the on-demand seats at the dessert bar.

Gelat-dough – $7 – doughy gelato that looks like a donut but tastes like the finest gelato.

One of the more eye-catching things at Tella Balls dessert bar are their gelat-doughs. It’s like multi-coloured donuts on a stick in a frozen chamber.

Ferrero Bowl – $13 – A smooth Ferrero Rocher mousse in a choc bowl (served with a vanilla bean gelato)

The same with the tella balls, if you want to enjoy their variety of desserts like the Ferrero Bowl, you will need to pay extra for the scoop of ice cream.

Tella Ball Pancake – $20 – 2 stack buttermilk pancakes with Canadian maple syrup, Cadbury Flake, Belgian chocolate chips, vanilla bean gelato & topped with a Nutella flavoured Tella Ball

If you thought the Tella Balls Shake was already ridiculous, wait until you see the Tella Ball Pancake. It looked like your weekly intake of sugar jammed into one plate. It’s a dream come true for Nutella lovers and definitely not for the health-conscious people.

The final verdict for Tella Balls

If you live around the area, it’s worth to buy the Tella Balls for takeaway. If you live outside the area, it depends largely on how much you love Nutella as Tella Balls are heavily featured in the menu.

Did you know?

Their takeaway menu is a lot cheaper than the dine-in one… and you can buy the Tella Ball for onl $4.50.

Rating for Tella Balls Dessert Bar:

7.5 / 10

Taste: 7.5 / 10

Price: $9 – $20 per dish

Place: 7.5 / 10

Details:

Shop 5, 370 New Canterbury Road, Dulwich Hill

+61 2 8384 4500

Tella Balls Dessert Bar on Facebook

Jun 21, 2016
Zeus Street Greek

Review:

If you haven’t driven along New Canterbury Road in recent years, you might be in for a surprise. There are two new eateries that attract huge crowd, especially on the weekend. One of them is Zeus Street Greek. It is one of a few outlets that Zeus has.

The menu was quite simple and had a good mixture of salad, sides, dips and main dishes. The entrees that we ordered were beetroot, corn cobs, pita bread and chips. We ordered the pita bread to accompany one of the main dishes.

Beetroot – $12.50 – Beetroot, feta, walnuts, honey and mint (GF)

Corn cobs – $9.50 – Roasted corn cobs with grated kefalotiri (GF)

Pita bread (2) – $3.00

Probably the one thing that I remembered the most was the chips. They were quite different. It was quite large, thin and very crispy.

Chips – $6.50

The main dishes are divided into two: pitas and nude. Before you start thinking something x-rated… I think they said ‘nude’ because it’s comparatively bare and uncovered when compared with the ones wrapped in pita bread.

There are three nude dishes and all served with a side of tzatziki and lemon. They are only available in one size only, 200 gr. It’s not bad for a light dinner.

Don’t forget to order an extra pita bread if you order these ones or any other sides as they don’t come with any.

Nude Lamb (200gr) – $18.50 – Our signature lamb from the souvla served with a side of tzatziki and lemon (GF)

Nude Chicken (200gr) – $15.50 – Our signature chicken from the souvla served with a side of tzatziki and lemon (GF)

The two pitas that we ordered on this occasion are both lamb. I cannot really tell the difference between the two, but they were both quite enjoyable.

The Zeus – Lamb – $12.50 – Our signature lamb with Aegean slaw, smoked eggplant, onion and parsley.

Uncle ‘Tzimmy’ Lamb – $12.50 – Our signature lamb with tomato, tzatziki, onion, paprika and chips, wrapped in pita.

The final verdict for Zeus Street Greek

Zeus Street Greek is quite a good place to have a quick lunch and dinner.

Did you know?

The other eatery that attracted a huge crowd in the vicinity is Tella Balls.

Rating for Zeus Greek Street Food:

7.0 / 10

Taste: 7.0 / 10

Price: $10.50 – $18.50

Place: 7.0 / 10

Details:

Shop 2-3, 362-372 New Canterbury Road, Dulwich Hill 2203

+61 2 8315 5600

http://zeusstreetgreek.com.au/

May 11, 2016