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🤮 1/5 - A tragic charade
By 👻 @brendanmkavanagh, 12/03/2022 3:00 am
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I've eaten at Florentino since the 1980's. For many years I worked minutes away and had lunch there every day. It was one of my favourite places to dine After more than ten years away from Melbourne, last night my wife and I went there for dinner. Our starter was calamari and potato. It was 90% potato slivers with a scattering of little bits of dry calamari. We asked for some lemon to squeeze on it, which the waitress said she would get; it never arrived. My wife ordered pumpkin tortellini with a sage and butter sauce. The pasta should be silken, tossed in a pan with hot butter and sage, a classic dish. What she received was a bowl of tortellini so undercooked and tough that it resisted being cut (so, closer to raw than al dente). It had clearly been thrown straight from a pot into a bowl and had some butter and sage thrown in later. The tepid water from the pasta had coalesced in the bottom of the bowl with an oily skin of butter floating on top. It had clearly been sitting around for time before we had the misfortune of having it served up to us. It was visually disgusting and completely inedible. I was presented with an equally inedible melanzane parmigiana. The aubergine was at best bland but had been drowned with a huge ladle of a sugo that tasted as though a tin of crushed tomatoes and a jar of puree had been thrown in a pan, warmed and then slopped in great volume on top of the dish. Clearly no herbs, onion, garlic, salt or pepper had been injured in the making of dish. Had I received the dish at a greasy-spoon café it would have been appalling; being served it at what had once been a good restaurant was simply saddening. We called for a bill, paid $190+ and prepared to leave. The waitress, seeing that we eaten almost nothing, asked whether there was a problem? We explained, as politely as we could, that it was cold, flavourless and inedible. Looking to defend the indefensible, she explained that the tortellini was 'al dente'. My wife tapped it with a fork, which bounced off the hard rubbery surface without leaving any impression. I pointed to the heaped pile of sugo which masked what might have been the dish I had ordered. The waitress ceased making eye contact and took the dishes away. Very sadly, nothing could induce me to eat there ever again.
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