Ides - Melbourne

We went to Ides pre-covid19 lockdown. Their sunday lunch menu surely delivered their usually high quality and even exceeded my expectation.

Came here before lockdown and it really show cased Australian food with a twist. Loved all the dishes, the ambiance and the attentive staff

Loved the set menu and wine pairing! Really great experience. Ambience of the place was great too, dark and mysterious.

Managed to get a last minute reservation here thankfully it isn't completely booked out on a Sunday night. The food, service and wine were all super nice. We didn't get all of the courses, however, it was still super filling. Each course packed plenty of flavour and the dessert was fun to unpack. Definitely recommend giving this place a go!

We came here for the degustation and I really enjoyed the first half of the meal. A few stand outs were the scallops so creamy), prawn with avo oil, fried chicken and the bacon broth the soup was so tasty and clear). The highlight of the meal was most definitely the bread with the peanut butter, this was extremely decadent and delicious.For the larger dishes we had an Avocado dish with caviar, this was such a delicate dish- the flavour combination was really lovely. The corn and duck dish was my least favourite, the soup was a bit odd for my liking. The confit salmon was also extremely delicious, this was so soft and one of my favourite dishes. The last savoury dish was the pork jowl, the texture of this was so unique- a very enjoyable dishDesserts unfortunately was not my favourite part of the meal, the best was probably the black box due to the theatrics