So, we moved to the country.
Well in fact we bought a house in the country. I almost can't believe it myself. It's simply wonderful. It's peaceful and quiet, friendly and quirky.
We are quite a way away from, well anything, except the local shop, the local market I work at on Wednesdays and a lovely little pub. Quite a historic wee pub actually, built in 1849 that's EIGHTEEN FORTY NINE and licensed continually since 1862, holy smokes, that's 159 years, (thanks Microsoft calculator).
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The pub has recently been purchased by new owners, and we thought we'd go down and have a meal and support the new owners.
As we pull up to the carpark (90 second drive from home to be accurate) we are surprised by the amount of cars in the driveway, it looks packed. We pull in, wander past the utes full of fire wood and interestingly, deer carcasses, and make our way to the bar.
The place is indeed packed. We had only been once before and it was well, there may have been tumbleweeds, so it was a joy to see the place filled with jovial locals.
We are informed that food may have a little wait, but we are not bothered, but instead grab a couple of drinks (I have a Sav Blanc and a Cascade Draught for G $12) and a menu to decide. We mosey roadside which has recently been revamped with extra tables, chair and firepits and of course the beautiful surrounding countryside.
The menu reads like a classic pub menu with most of the things you'd expect but are never disappointed to see.
We decide on a garlic bread to share $5.50, Parmigiana for G $23 and the seafood basket for myself $30.
Warning aside, the food didn't take too long to come out at all.
I believe it was an epic amount of garlic bread for the price. Great flavour on lovely crisply toasted bread.
It is really difficult to show the sheer size of Gudge's Parmi... it had some serious girth. He reckons it was one of "the better ones I have tried in his life" and that "the chicken was very juicy", he loved the tomato sauce.
My seafood basket was all perfectly cooked and came with I believe was flathead (?), calamari, scallop, prawn cutlet and seafood bite.
The chips were very very good. I am a chip snob and these were without fault (please feel free to click 'chips' in the labels to hear me whinge about or praise chips). I have to say it, the retro curry pasta and egg salad was awesome, I absolutely loved the nostalgia of it. The home made slaw and green salad were both super fresh.
Do you know what? This is honest, real, in no way pretentious pub grub. From a doozy of a country pub.
We'll absolutely be going back, and if we're ever allowed visitors back to Tassie we'll take them too.
We didn't get a chance to meet the owners, but I hope to very soon, and I wish them all the best.
