Monday, January 24, 2011

Hungry Beasts @ Squires Loft

Squires Loft (1 Albert Road, Albert Park)


To celebrate the impending nuptials of a very dear mate of mine, a 15 man team attended a "pre-wedding" carnivorous session at Squires Loft in Albert Park.  


1900 -  Seated.
19:25 - The animals were restless, hungry and a couple of beers in were getting very very antsy. 
19:35 - Ordered.
19:50 - A good friend next to me remarked (after taking a bite of his paper napkin), that he was famished.  And so we hastily asked our waitress for some bread just to tie him over. 
20:00 -  Bread arrived with some rock-hard butter that required a short defrost on top of the warm bread.  
20:15 - Butter defrosted. With a riot about the start, and after a third pint of Becks, the entrees arrived.  Fried onion rings (decent), mushrooms baked in feta cheese (well-received, but more due to hunger than finesse) and pork ribs (dry but passable).
20:30 - The group starts to look like Bear Grylls half-way through the Sahara.  The friend next to me who had ordered water an hour ago had given up and asked for a pint, which came quicker than the water.  
20:40 - More bread arrived (unordered - an implied message)
20:55 - With the waitress close to asking for a restraining order, she ran to the pass to collect the first round of steaks (12/15 arrive with 2 side Greek Salads straight out of the Sizzler salad bar) 
21:05 - The last 3 of us get our meals.  Eye Fillet Steak, decent cut, perfectly cooked.  Mushroom sauce, little bit packet for me but passable.  


Overall - if you want a steak for the same price, got to Francois.  The service there is worse but they're French so it's ok and the place is nicer (i.e. you dont have to share a venue with the people who only made the second round of auditions for Jersey Shore - Australia). 


Enjoy!! 





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