Reid and I LOVE good food! Especially when someone else cooks it for us and it is accompanied by good wine. So every two or three months we shout ourselves to a dinner at the fancy restaurant. The entertainment book is our good food guide to Melbourne, a quick flick through the fine dining section usually leads us to a great restaurant. However, this time we strayed from the book. Magic City is our local fancy restaurant, and although it isn’t in the Entertainment Book it is in the Age Good Food Guide, it reviews well on the internet, and is gets good reports via word of mouth – plus it looks really nice and has a great wine list.
Unfortunately, after months of anticipation we were quite disappointed. Our entrée’s were well presented, but a bit cold and certainly not a taste sensation, and the mains were quite ordinary. I had a pork dish, and apart from being doused in ginger and Chinese five spice (my least favourite flavours) it was very chewy and over cooked. It certainly dampened the conversation since I had to spend five minutes chewing every mouthful. Reid had a noodle dish, which he thought was no better than the $10 takeaway noodles from the neighbouring noodle bar! The service was pretty good – although they did forget to bring us our first drinks.
Bummer.
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