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Mietta's Eating & Drinking in Melbourne 2000

Runner up: Best New Star
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Very London or New York, this minimalist, super suave restaurant, designed by Sydney’s Ian Halliday, is splendid. Walk in off Collins Street level to the long narrow bar, for great light lunches, coffee and drinks or take the very smart lift to the restaurant serving food of sometimes exquisite style, but always elegant. The interior design of this deep narrow space is more about spots of light, the vast whiteness broken up by one textured grey wall. Stainless steel tubes, spectacularly rise the three floors in the stairwell. The restaurant itself occupies the 3rd floor with the kitchen mastered by James Redfern, on the 2nd. It is all politely lit, and we have to say the toilets with their mysterious Zen annotation, are quite worth the trip up in the lift. The glass-boxed lightwell is inclined to bring on a Vertigo attack. No shoddy wines are to be found on the list, and the menu accommodates all. Quite sweet sauces are the order for main meat dishes, Poussin and the perfectly grilled Atlantic Salmon. In some dishes the restrained use of Asian spices are there only to enhance. Very fashionable dining with young, expert waiting staff

189 Collins Street
Melbourne
Melways reference 1A:J8
Phone: 9663 0411
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 12 noon-10pm
Licensed
All credit cards
Seats Inside: 110, Outside: 12
Closed: Public holidays
Features: Restricted smoking, kids encouraged, bar
Favourites:Home smoked duck with a lychee gastrique $27, Salad of Scampi $16, Mussel & Kangaroo Tart $15