Today we ventured to Woollahra for lunch at the Bistro Moncur. It’s a famous one-hat restaurant, but they were doing lunch specials as part of the Sydney Morning Herald‘s Good Food Month at a bargain (for Sydney!) $38 for a main course and glass of wine.
Driving through town to get there was a slow crawl because a huge fire in a building being demolished forced the police to close off Bathurst Street.
When we arrived, we chose to sit outside on their little terrace. I was hailed from the next table by a former Herald colleague, Jon Casimir, who has made a big career in television. He is co-creator of The Gruen Transfer, which he writes and produces for Zapruder’s Other Films. Gruen is a very funny critique of the advertising and PR industries. He was sitting with the show’s stars – comedian Wil Anderson and advertising gurus Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft. I (of course) told them I loved the show – which I do!
They were discussing the future direction of the program, but I was much too polite to eavesdrop.
Foodwise we both chose the “minute steak with wine merchants sauce and chips” with a side salad. The food was simple, but very good indeed. It was a very pleasant experience. Note the interior has a fine mural, painted by another former Herald colleague, Michael Fitzjames.
