The Pot Food and Wine

Posted by: Nutmeg2009 | 6 November 2009, 4.23pm

The food is fantastic and the service professional and friendly. I love the fact that you can have the option of a proper sit down meal...or you can just perch at the bar with a glass (or 3) or vino and pick a couple of share plates off the menu. It's like a little Melbourne wine bar...in Hyde Park!

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Posted by: polarbear | 20 August 2009, 12.13pm

We had always wanted to try The Pot, and we had the opportunity for a light lunch on thursday 19/08/2009.
We had heard good things and read good reveiws, and being in the area at 2pm and being the foodies we are thought 'why not?'.
So we popped in. It was very quiet, but we were shown to a cosy table by the window (nice for watching the world go by).
The waiter was not very welcoming and abruptly told us that 'thats not ready' when we looked towards the specials board - apparently there are only specials for dinner, not lunch.
Anyway, kudos go to the kitchen as our snails and wagyu steak tartare were delicious, and the 'mains' were very nice indeed (I normally don't like fennel at all, but this poached fennel was to die for!!).
We were incredibly disappointed that the waiter decided to pocket $10 of our change (The bill came to $68, we gave $80 and was given $2 change. Not quite right!!). We were in a hurry and the waiter stayed at the other end of the restaurant so we didn't get a chance to question him. I guess he decided he deserved a tip!!
This left a bad taste in our mouth, which is a shame because the food is excellent.
I certainly advise anyone who is going to watch out for change-stealing waiters, but the food is worth the extra vigilance.

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Posted by: Meagan Abraham | 30 June 2009, 6.55pm

The Pot sits pretty amid designer boutiques, cute little coffee shops in Hyde Park a tiled causeway looking lane that extends from King William Road. In fact it makes for such a rickety ride, you feel like the car is about to fall apart as you drive over the series of grooves. Adjacent to the Pot is Melt, a delightful pizzeria that sounds and looks fabulous. Can t wait to try that place! I feel a bit foolish in my one and a half years of living in little, ole Adelaide I had never been to Hyde Park before! An interesting cheese and wine providore just a few doors away confirms that a trip up to the top of King William Road is a must.

The atmosphere is intimate, cosy and sophisticated all at once. The place could possibly seat 40 and that would be a stretch I imagine. Literally as you enter the room it envelopes you in a warm embrace. Soft, yellow lighting, warmth of the heating and quaint French bistro ambience oozes brown paper specials scrawled haphazardly, (so much so we couldn t make them out and missed the crumbed sweetbreads!) overhead a glass kitchen. This allows a sneak peek at the chefs in their impressive starched whites and chequered hats.

Immediately impressed by the vibe I got as I walked in the door and further elevated by excitement over the elegant menu options, my mind whirled at the journey several tasting platters would afford us that night. The Pot has long been an Adelaidian institution until recently when the owner decided to re-vamp the place by doing a French tapas inspired menu that features plates designed to share with the exception of the appetisers that the waitress warned were individual portions (fair warning). An immediate drawback was the seating. Adjusting myself in the tiny little varnished wooden tables and chairs it seems our group of four, petite to moderately sized women, were feeling a bit like Suddenly Susan too large and awkward to fit into the space allocated to our table and chairs without leaning a little over the customers on tables on either side, or rocking the table unceremoniously every time someone needed to reach for the bread or the water. And so, the expected happened halfway through service, the water rocked our table sending water all over my friend s bag and lap all he did was offer her a serviette and rush off!

The tasting menu of Chef s selection of appetiser, charcuterie, salads, seafood, meats and dessert at $48 sounded like the way to go. But the birthday girl s friends had said they hadn t enjoyed the chef s selection very much on their visit.
We ordered a bunch of things to taste and share instead. All of us being gastronomy students the experience of flavours, taste and texture as opposed to food as fuel highlights any meal we sit down to. Our waitress was awfully eager to push the shoestring fries, I m just going to add one you re going to need it. While all of us looked horrified, nodding our heads in opposition. One word pushy! And for what the fries so not worth it, some wait staff need a lesson in sussing out their customers! The gastro-gals are anything but a bunch of grease, shoving fried potato crazed women!

We started our meal with much promise. The Mushroom, Truffle and Raclette Croquettes were divine. Breaded evenly and golden to a crisp, one bite yielded a delicate, smooth interior of potato pure? laced with truffle. The birthday girl keen to try oysters had ordered the Pristine Pacific Oysters from Coffin Bay, which my companions enjoyed natural, I tried it with the Wasbi Flying Fish Roe that was simply delightful, an airy puff of zing, the burst of popping roe in the mouth and then the creamy, plump oyster to chase it.

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Posted by: cat_c | 1 October 2006, 3.28pm

Loved the whole experience of eating at The Melting Pot. Fabulous food that stretched my palate and was exceptionally tasty. Very intimate restaurant and great service.

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