Review: Standard bar snacks and 'very tasty' donuts in Dessous
Address 164 Flinders Ln Melbourne , VIC 3000 View map Opening hours Dinner Tuesday-Saturday Feature Bar, Licensed, Accepts reservations, Events Price Expensive (electricity over $40) Payment eftpos, Visa, Mastercard Phone 03 9070 4939 It’s an era of fun, umami, taking the most decadent ingredients you can find, tossing lots of fish sauce and fresh herbs in it, and then adding crunchy and flaky and a little more fun to the mix. This is the era of cream sauces, bright pickles, food made especially to be enjoyed with booze, orgies of sex on a plate. Let’s take a donut and fill it with crab; let’s cook the crap out of our vegetables so they melt and sizzle and then drizzle them with three kinds of milk. Let’s not hold back. This is the manifesto that comes to mind when dining at Dessous – Mulberry Group’s Flinders Lane venue – a plac