Jamie
Sunday Lunch. It means different things to different people. Growing up it meant lunch with my grandparents, a day we relaxed and caught up with family members. My mother was calm as she didn’t need to cook a special roast after her very busy week. Sunday lunch was a healing experience for all of us, as my grandparents always bought take away so my grandmother could also have a break from cooking.
As our final “Pub of the Month” we chose King O’Malley’s. As with P. J. O’Reilly’s it was established in Canberra many years ago and has changed over the years. It is located in City Walk.
Originally we’d planned to visit on a Thursday, but life does not always like plans, so we went on a Friday.
This time, in light of the Monday to Thursday $12.00 Lunchtime Pizza specials, we agreed we had to order at least one pizza.
In our second Pub of the Month review blog we went to P. J. O’Reilly’s which offers a $13.00 lunch special.
For those who have never been there, PJ’s (as it is often called) is an ‘Irish’ Pub in the Melbourne Building in Civic.
We decided to try three different lunch specials. Please remember we had only recently visited Michael’s at Walsh’s and returned there the day after going to PJ’s for reasons.
It is Spring and people’s thoughts turn to… Beer Gardens and Pubs.
Not really. Strangely enough the random selection method we use managed to place the names of two Pubs as the venues for our next reviews and for fun and no other reason we added a third.
For the rest of this month we have the theme: Three Pubs.
Even though Michael’s at Walsh’s has been in the Entertainment Book for a few years we didn’t think of eating there. We had planned to review a different restaurant but, as circumstances were against us, this was a late substitution.
Alexi
We ordered an entrée to come out before our mains which was Mediterranean Garlic Bread ($8.50). It was covered with fetta, both green and black olives, shallots, parsley and semi sundried tomatoes on Turkish bread. It was incredibly good. It had been grilled so the fetta had melted nicely and it was moist without being soggy. I enjoyed it, a lot. Continue reading
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