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Blue Tongue Wine Bar
Ph: (03) 9531 3011; 64 Ormond Rd cnr Beach Ave, ELWOOD 3184
Contemporary, $$, ** for Ambience
Open Mon-Thu noon-10.30pm; Fri noon-11pm; Sat 9am-11pm; Sun 9am-10.30pm, Closed Christmas; Licensed; AE DC MC V EFT, No bookings, Seats inside 64, Outside seats
Chef Paul Martin (7-11-07) Owner Nick Savage & Peter Stubbs (7-11-07)
Mietta's Review
You get a lot of things at Blue Tongue - places to sit (footpath, courtyard, bar, table), things to eat (breakfast, lunch, dinner, specials) and hours to be there. The many menus overlap in a bewildering way during its continuous hours of operation. The open kitchen and bar take up a third of the sparsely decorated room which, with its concrete floor, bare tabletops and bentwood chairs, shouts cafe loudly enough for all Elwood to hear. The service is sensible and understated, the prices and food are appropriate. This is a very generous business. Good wine list.
Other published opinions
Age Good Food Guide 2008 Score: 12.5/20 "Residents of Elwood are used to the good things in life but they like them dressed-down and casual. This is why Blue Tongue mixes concrete floors with white linen; why the waiters wear shorts under their crisp white shirts and aprons, and why the place buzzes from breakfast till late"
The Age Good Food Guide 2006 score 13/20 "Cafes come and cafes go on fickle, fashionable Ormond Road, but Blue Tongue just keeps on ticking over, as regularly and reliably as the showpiece station clock mounted on the wall. Romantic bentwood chairs and tables are crammed on to the concrete floor, which is softened by ochre walls, moody lighting and groovy music."
The Age Good Food Guide 2005 "ON warm nights, a mix of after-work suits and denim-clad young things sit under sprawling jacarandas on Elwood's busy shopping strip. Inside, they gather at the polished redgum bar or undressed wooden tables."
Age Under $10 11/5/04 NIKKI FISHER "Nothing much to it but simple, flavour-filled food like this is enough to make daily detoxing appealing."
AGFG 04, score 13/20, exceptional wine list
The Age, A2, 29/11/03, Melinda Houston
The Age, Sunday Life, Eat Streets, Dani Valent, 2/3/03
The Sunday Age Oudoor dining 12.12.99
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