Martin FrimetRoccoccos, Italy in St.Kilda
March 8th 2007 12:33
It's easy to dismiss those restaurants/cafes that you keep going back to time after time, after all there's no need to think about them, you just end up there because simply
everything else wasn't good enough for you. It's easy to just look at everybody and just say "do you want to go here again?", the food was good enough last time, actually come to think of it the food was pretty damn good, the service friendly and prompt and a nice relaxed atmosphere, yeah lets go here again. You tend not to think of these sort of places as some of melbourne's best restaurants, you havn't read about them in the paper, they don't have that funny little chef's hat plastered anywhere and they don't have that 'celebrity chef' factor. Think about it though, what makes a good restaurant/cafe? The answer really isn't that complex, it's a: a place where you can go time and time again and the food is consistently good, b: the service comes to your table with a smile and c: you can spend a good couple of hours there with people and time will slip under the rug because you've found yourself in a place that makes you feel comfortable, happy and well just like home with a few extra guests, actually quite a lot of extra guests if you were to step inside Rococo's in St.Kilda.
Acland street can be a little overwhelming at times, especially on a warm night when the masses have come out to enjoy an evening of entertainment without having to put on 3 layers of clothing. Bars and Cafes seem to all merge into one and at times it can be hard to gauge a place as a restaurant, cafe, or a place where the kitchen has closed, drinks have taken priority and the clientele feel the need to all raise their voice simultaneously in a desperate attempt to hear one another over the tunes belting from either side of the street. So it's refreshing to be able to find a reasonbly quite place to sit eat and enjoy one anothers company. Rococos from the look of it could easily seat 100 people at any given time, it's long wooden tables fit in a good group but leave enough room to spread your legs and relax a little after eating some pretty damn good italian. On meny, rococos offers a good variety of pizza pasta, salads, meat and fish, no one dish really seems like the other which tends to happen when your glancing over an italian menu and they definatley wouldn't be getting complaints about not enough food on the plate...Rococo's serving sizes will probably have you reaching down to undo the top bottun or loosen the belt on your pants because it's not like you can help but want to put every little piece of food that's on the plate into your mouth no matter how full you are. I've started with the pumpkin soup before, it comes to your table steaming hot, in hot bowl with some warm ciabatta that is suprisingly fresh...one spoon and your bowl will be empty very shortly. A nice lite pasta or salmon salad to follow will fill the gaps and won't dissapoint...to wash it all down this place offers a pretty good variety of local and imported beers (if your looking for something new to drink in the warmer temps try an amsterdam beer called amstel, very refreshing) and a snappy wine list that won't have you running to the cash machine when the bill arrives...sit inside or out either way it's nice, staff are reasonbly attentive but more importantly happy and actually seem to care. Sit, eat, drink, be merry and watch the parade of acland street on a summers night in st.kilda, think about the food your eating and note that no matter how busy this place seems to get, it will come out just as good as the last time.[SIZE=1]Your text goes here
everything else wasn't good enough for you. It's easy to just look at everybody and just say "do you want to go here again?", the food was good enough last time, actually come to think of it the food was pretty damn good, the service friendly and prompt and a nice relaxed atmosphere, yeah lets go here again. You tend not to think of these sort of places as some of melbourne's best restaurants, you havn't read about them in the paper, they don't have that funny little chef's hat plastered anywhere and they don't have that 'celebrity chef' factor. Think about it though, what makes a good restaurant/cafe? The answer really isn't that complex, it's a: a place where you can go time and time again and the food is consistently good, b: the service comes to your table with a smile and c: you can spend a good couple of hours there with people and time will slip under the rug because you've found yourself in a place that makes you feel comfortable, happy and well just like home with a few extra guests, actually quite a lot of extra guests if you were to step inside Rococo's in St.Kilda.
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