If you've ever wondered where the cool kids are going for lunch, this is it: take a French bakery, add a touch of Vietnam, a twinkle of Thailand, a shot of Campos Coffee and a liquor licence and you start to understand Taste's appeal.
At lunchtime locals form haphazard queues for fresh vegetable and noodle salads, or batons of house-baked baguettes (white, whole meal and rye) stuffed with daisy-fresh salads and smatterings of roasted meat. The Vietnamese baguette with its lick of lemon chive mayo, smear of pate and pork, pickled carrots, cucumber, onion, coriander and soy sauce and chillies, is called a classic on the menu for a reason. The grilled lemongrass chicken baguette has a clique of its own, courtesy of its combination of sweet and sticky chicken, tomato, mixed lettuce, rocket, snow pea sprouts, lemon chive mayo, and a squirt of olive basil oil. Those in the know add fresh coriander, get in early and sharpen their elbows.
If you're tempted to eat in you can try and score one of the 120 seats, perhaps by the water feature in the courtyard, and choose from a menu that includes green papaya salad, a curry of the day, and local beers. If you can't quite find your way up the hill from Central Station or down from Crown Street never fear; Taste has a sister restaurant in the city at Sussex Lane.
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