One of a hundred

February 11th, 2007 - 11:23am

I just realised that this is my first post for February, and the month is nearly half over. Justine and I joined Trav and Ange last night at Lygon St for dinner. Our only plan was to have Italian food and have it somewhere around Lygon St. The rest was up to fate.

One spruiker offeed us “two more bottles of that” (and pointing to the brown paper bag Trav was holding) and then retracting said offer upon realisation that the bag actually contained rum, not wine. Another offered us an “eighty dollar bottle of wine”, which was more likely to be the cheapest bottle on the street. We squished past a few more restaurants before quickly deciding on one so we didn’t have to continue our search. They did give us a “free” bottle of el-cheapo wine, which didn’t appear on the final bill, which was nice.

Sitting outside, the girls were in the passerby line of fire, not to mention the cigarette smoke line of fire, so we moved inside.

I had a risotto with mussels and Justine had a vegetarian risotto. Both had obviously been waiting under the heat lamp for a while as the outside of the rice was quite dry; inside it was alright but definitely not the best risotto I’ve had. With all the other restaurants on Lygon St, we probably wouldn’t bother going back to that one. I don’t even remember what it was called!

Tags: dinner, lygon st, outing