Butcher’s Diner comes to Melbourne CBD
The Melbourne late night dining scene has a new addition with Butcher’s Diner.
It will be a new 24-hour diner of meat, burgers and tinnies located at 10 Bourke Street, Melbourne near The European.
Anyone turning up for breakfast will have milk buns filled with caramelised black pudding or house-smoked maple bacon and egg. It will offer cinnamon rolls too.
At lunch time, there will be a daily-changing burger.
The burger meat will be a mix of full and half blood Robbin's Island wagyu. There will also be reubens and a Japanese fried chicken sambo.
There will also be a vending machine, stocked twice daily, and dispensing Israeli cous cous and nicoise salads for those looking for takeaway.
For dinner, there will be yakitori duck hearts and chicken skin skewers on their binchotan grill.
And for those looking for something substantial, there will be one dry-aged steak with sides.
It will have a smoker doing short ribs and pulled pork for big groups.
There’s also the prospect of it serving up the likes of whole suckling pigs.
Anyone wanting a beer will have an all-craft beer list, mostly from local micro-brewers.
There will also be specialist wines.
Owner Chris Christopolous has made sure that it will be well designed.
The venue will feature a huge custom communal table downstairs. Upstairs, comes with a small terrace. The plan is to turn that into a function space.
Simon Poole, the European Group's long-time butcher and smallgoods maker, will be at work in a boning room to the rear. He will be slicing and dicing carcasses only that’s not for the diners. Those cuts are to be sent to the restaurants only.
Still, it’s a bit of theatre and great viewing for meat lovers at chef Steve Lichter's diner out front.
Butcher’s Diner will be opening in two weeks’ time.
by Leon Gettler, Augist 16th 2017
