Pinbone’s new adventure is here for a good time, not a long time, writes PAT NOURSE. Get it while it’s hot.
I don’t know what to make of the doughnut labelled “bother me”. It’s stencilled on the wall along with a dancing pig holding a bottle of wine, a slice of pizza, a dancing can holding a pizza, a dancing slice of pizza holding a bottle of wine, and a love heart beribboned with the word “pizza”. Interesting move for a place that doesn’t sell doughnuts or dancing pigs. Or pizza.
On the other hand, the phrase “self-serve coolroom full of really great wine” is easy to grasp. That, plus a new outing for the Pinbone mob makes an excursion to Mascot a “when” proposition rather than an “if”. Yes, the name “ Mr Liquor’s Dirty Italian Disco” smacks of a brainstorming session that needed more brain and less storm. And it’s consistent with some aspects of the look and feel of the place that are a little grating in their overreach.
But if your idea of a good time runs to getting together with a bunch of pals to graze over olives, a few things on toast and/or a few things that go with bread, then seguing to a tasty hunk of protein or a plate of pasta over a good, well-priced bottle or six, it turns out these things are easy to forgive.
This story is from the January 2018 edition of Gourmet Traveller.
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