City Grill Room - Melbourne CBD

The husband had a craving for good ol' steak with sauce so I did a little search on google, and up came quite a number of results. I look thru each one and decided on City Grill room as advertised on their website they were the "Steak Specialist" so how could I give that a miss.

When we got to the place which is on Lt Lonsdale st, there was a post that states the name of the restaurant so we proceeded to enter and a waitress came quickly bearing menus. I told her I make reservations and she  gave me a big smile and proceeded to direct me to city grill room whose entrance was on a side alleyway. Pretty embarrassing on my part as I should have read that it was a korean cafe printed on the door. From her reaction I'm presuming there were a few first timers that got it wrong too.

So we found the entrance and was promptly greeted by the wait staff, who was pleasant. Found my name on the reservation list and proceeded to show us our table.

We started with entree which was the Grilled Beef Sausage (Boerewors) with chilli sauce on the side, a little plain and nothing fancy about it. I got this as my dear daughter (DD) is a fussy eater and that was the only thing on the menu that seem to entice her, so sausage it was although I could not justify paying $15 for a piece of sausage, yeah you read it right it was one lone piece. In the excitement and shocked I forgot to take a picture of it.


For mains I decided on the lamb ribs with creamy garlic sauce and sides of chips, if my personal trainer was reading this he would not be a very happy at this point, hey we should live on the edge sometimes don't you think? The ribs was really tender and the meat was falling off the bone although I personally felt it did not need the sauce as the marinate was sufficient. So I use the sauce as a dip for my chips, which was just yummy. Also it was not as oily as lamb ribs usually are, although it could have done with a bigger slab.

Tender Poll Dorset Lamb Ribs

Creamy Garlic Sauce & Chips

Since the whole point of going to city grill was for the steak, hubby had the 300gm porterhouse with mushroom sauce and salad on the side. As you can see he could not wait to sink his teeth into it, even before I can get a picture of it. He gave it the thumbs up, meat was tender and cook according to his request.

300gm Porterhouse

Would I make a return visit? I highly doubt so as the price does not justify the portions.




Location:

City Grill Room

535 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne, Victoria