Station Hotel 2
PS: Today is my 4th blog birthday!!!1!!1 (Inappropriate use of exclamation marks justified in this situation.) Unlike last year I don’t have cake or candles, but happy blog birthday to me anyway! 😀
The day after our excessive cider consumption at Campari House, Bro, Maria and I wisely booked a day off. We took the opportunity of a free day off work (wheee!) and met for lunch at Station Hotel since we enjoyed our previous visit so much.
Maz and Bro started with the tried and true onion soup ($12.00).
While I had the Moorish spiced soup ($12). My soup was soooo good. The fish soup was thick and flavour packed – paprika, fennel, garlic, tomato, and a bit of spiciness. It was served piping hot with croutons and mustard.
For mains, Bro ordered the braised pig’s trotter, “Pierre Koffmann” with veal sweetbreads, morels, pomme mousseline and Madeira sauce ($32). We thought it didn’t look as large as the mammoth one he was served last time (which is a good thing!). Bro thought it didn’t seem as gelatinous as last time (gelatinous is also a good thing, if you’re wondering) 😉 but it was still delicious.
It looked like Maria ordered mushrooms, but these were actually the Welsh Black spicy beef sausages, served with radicchio, Persian feta and soused onions ($28).
It also came with a little pot of polenta sauce. Cute!
I had the gnocchi with capretto and cavelo nero ($28) and it was fantastic. Soft and light, the gnocchi had that melt in the mouth quality. If I could make gnocchi like that, I would never eat it anywhere else! I also really liked the slightly bitter cavelo nero, which was a nice contrast to the cheese and potato.
There was no room left in our stomachs for dessert, so that was lunch ticked off and a day off well spent. Another lovely meal at Station Hotel – each time I visit I like it more and more.
Since our last visit, these blogs have posted about Station Hotel:
[googleMap name=”Station Hotel” width=”600″ height=”300″ directions_to=”false”]59 Napier St, Footscray, VIC, Australia[/googleMap]
Station Hotel
59 Napier St
Footscray
Phone: 9687 2913
Web: www.thestationhotel.com.au
August 8, 2011 @ 8:52 am
Wow, it all looks so sumptious! Yum 🙂
August 22, 2011 @ 9:07 pm
It’s worth a trip out west 🙂
August 8, 2011 @ 9:06 am
Happy 4th birthday Off the Spork!
August 22, 2011 @ 9:05 pm
Thanks Lisa! 😀
August 8, 2011 @ 8:45 pm
Happy birthday my beautiful inspiring adventurous smacks-me-upside-my-head-when-I-need-it BFF and her fantastical blog of fantasticalness! So glad you picked up your typing-pen four years ago! Here’s to the next forty four and more 🙂
August 22, 2011 @ 9:10 pm
Thanks lovely 🙂 xx
August 8, 2011 @ 9:14 pm
Yum yum YUM! And happy anniversary – 4 years, quite an accomplishment 🙂
August 22, 2011 @ 9:10 pm
Thanks 🙂 I can’t believe I’ve stuck with it for four years!
August 9, 2011 @ 11:59 am
Happy blog birthday! Thank you for all the wonderful posts x
August 22, 2011 @ 9:12 pm
Aww thanks 😀
August 9, 2011 @ 9:33 pm
I love French onion soup presented in that traditional rustic style – looks delicious and happy 4th blog birthday and to think my blog is barely 4 months old 🙁 🙁
August 22, 2011 @ 9:31 pm
Keep trucking – if my experience is anything to go by, four years will come by in a flash 🙂
August 13, 2011 @ 3:45 pm
happy 4th bloggy birthday!!!!
August 22, 2011 @ 9:19 pm
Thanks Shellie!
August 19, 2011 @ 8:45 pm
Happy Blog Birthday. I’ll let you get away with inappropriate use of exclamation marks in this situation!!!!
August 22, 2011 @ 9:19 pm
Thank Mister Thanh for allowing inappropriate use of exclamation marks!!1!!
August 22, 2011 @ 1:38 pm
I keep hearing so many good things about the Station Hotel. I’ve gotta go try it!
And happy blog birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your blog is getting old!!!!!!! 🙂
August 22, 2011 @ 9:22 pm
Worth a trip out westside (represent!). And yes the blog is getting old – like me. :p