Habitat Restaurant & Bar | 187 Melbourne Street, WEST END QLD 4101
Of
late the other travel bunnie and I have been on a mission to shorten
our ever growing list of places to try. Now that minibun George is
close to two months old, we are finding it a lot
easier to settle him into a routine and therefore get back into
our old routine of eating out.
And hence
the three of us ended up at Habitat Restaurant & Bar in West
End last Saturday for lunch. The menu at Habitat is great. We were
told by our cheerful waitress that we could order from both the lunch
and dinner menu if we wished. The lunch menu provided a nice
selection of options at really reasonable prices. I'm talking about
$15 for a nice sounding dish. A lot of cafes don't even do
breakfast at that price these days.
We
started off with a ginger beer and a pot of brewed chai with soy milk
($6). The chai wasn't as good as I had hoped for, and was, dare
I say, stingy on the chai leaves leaving me with a
strong soy milk taste and not much else. Now that
I come to think of it, I really should've said something to the
waitress.
Lunch
arrived a little later. My poached chicken salad ($13.50)
looked fresh and vibrant. The chicken was well poached but the actual
salad had not a lot of taste if it wasn't for a few smoked
tomatoes. I found the best part about the salad was
the grilled haloumi. The other travel bunnie's pork
belly wrap ($15) was a better dish in comparison to mine.
The pork belly had a nice crunch to it and the salad was fresh, but
again it didn't have any memorable flavour to grab
our attention. Both dishes were slightly on the bland side and
dare I say a touch boring. Even the chat
potatoes ($6) came out with no seasoning and were
undercooked despite the fact that the menu had
them including roast garlic and lemon.
I
hate to say it but Habitat didn't do much for us. Although I think
Habitat ticked all the right boxes in terms of its
atmosphere and the well thought and VERY reasonably priced menu; the
lunch that we had was rather mediocre. I hope it was a one-off thing
and perhaps the other travel bunnie and I will return for dinner one
night before we write it off.
Total
Bunnie Dollars Spent: $48
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