After our first trip to the turret, and watching all the mouth watering looking meals float effortlessly past our noses, propelled by the light footed and very suave staff at the turret cafe, we vowed to come back again next time we were in the area to try out the sumptuous and tempting lunchtime menu.
After agonizing over the menu for a while, and craning our necks to catch a glimpse of the day’s popular meals, we finally ordered.
It can be a little difficult to catch the eye of the staff when it’s busy, but that’s perfectly understandable. Wrestling with the cash register, and what looked like cantankerous old ladies pushing for a split bill on their table can take some time and patience.
Staff are polite and efficient, and the meals came out pretty quickly.
I wen
t with the lime, slaw and pulled pork slider burger special, as depicted alongside.
The brioche buns are really, really good- probably made fresh on site, and the burgers as a set, make up a pretty substantial meal, as one would expect, for around $25! I certainly didn’t feel hungry afterward.
What was saddening was that while the first slider burger bun was great.. the second and third seemed a bit bland and boring afterward- just a lack of variety I’m afraid. That, and I’d forgotten why I have not ordered a pulled pork bun for ages-
I’ve never been super-duper impressed by pulled pork. Bit of a gimmicky hipster Melbourne thing, and I was all porked out a few years ago as a result in the CBD. 🙁
That said, with 3 buns, 3 different sauces or variations would have been a nice touch.
Quite an ordering mistake on my behalf… what caught my eye immediately was the Moroccan lamb Tagine with almonds, but the lass wanted that, so I deferred to her and chose something else.
Yum! the Moroccan Lamb Tagine was absolutely delicious! great mix of spices, nice slow cooked lamb, and crispy almonds on top.
We actually fought over the dish a little bit- fork for fork it was that good!
Spicy, delicious, hearty! underneath was a very nice cous cous, with little raisins and suchlike mixed in.
Either way, it was a great dish both of us woudl order again anytime!
Despite feeling full, I still wanted the full experience, because the cake was that good last time!
This time around, I went with the macadamia lemon pie!
Ohyesss! delicious!
The cake was that tempting, we demolished half of it before the photo was taken (sorry folks!)
Probably not as special as the croissant raspberry chocolate cake sampled last visit… but totally up there as a very special treat!
There were still cakes to try, and menu items to sample, so we made another decree we would return again the following month!
ed into burger brothers & chookas charcoal chicken at Howitt street wendouree for a quick, and hopefully good value lunchtime feed. The food I ordered was competent, fresh, and tasty enough, but I wasn’t blown away- for the price I expected a bit more- Sadly, the “big brother” burger turned out to be more like a bland accountant or conservative public servant type, not a bad boy that plays in a band, rides motorbikes, and hoons about in his terminally unregistered commodore, outrunning police on a regular basis.
