Rare Steakhouse in Melbourne – great meat and exceptional wines to try
I simply love a good steak, together with chips (I should really call them french fries as I prefer the thin ones) and a few veggies and I am a happy man. A great bottle of wine on top and I am in heaven.
This happened in Melbourne on the weekend. In my series spectacular places I would like to give a special mention to the Rare Steakhouse in Melbourne’s CBD. Hidden away from the mainstream in an isle next to Little Collins Street, we enter the Steakhouse and immediately fall in love with its interior. 70s fabrics, colours and chandeliers welcome you on your way to your table. The menu is quite simple, the focus stays on meat with a few lines explaining carefully what to expect from each dish. Too easy mate.
The wine list is great: Victorian and South Australian wines dominating the list. What else to expect from a Melburnian restaurant, and I do not mean this disrespectfully, to the contrary. I have received quite a few comments on my posts about wine drinkers from NSW not drinking ‘their’ local drops. In my opinion it is essential to support the local wine makers and therefore the focus on wine from VIC and SA in Melbourne is very understandable.
Our wine tasting starts with a 2007 Heathcote Shiraz from Tar & Roses, quite a rich wine with 14.5% but an excellent match to our Fillet. Dan Lewis and Narelle King have made this wine an outstanding match for the anymeat lover here Down Under. Have to explore more about the Tar & Roses wines – big exclamation mark. The good news is: most of the great reds are available by the glass, I am simply not used to this luxury from Restaurants in Sydney. Wine by the glass is made for the wine enthusiast who wants to explore – I usually drink more by trying a few wines than by just sticking it to one bottle.
More on the other wines in a separate post – have to get this one on the way.
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Im Rahmen meiner Serie ‘Besondere Restaurants’ Down Under berichte ich heute von meiner Erfahrung im Rare Steakhouse in Melbourne am letzten Wochenende. Ich verspreche Ihnen grossartiges Fleisch, eine wunderbare Atmosphaere aus den 70ern und eine Weinkarte, die es in sich hat. Wir testeten diverse Weine aus Viktoria, denn es gilt ja hier dem lokalen Geschmack zu folgen.
Ihr Michael Brecht
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thanks Michael for the recommendation, we loved the place too and enjoyed the food and wine, great blog, we will continue to read your news
Jane from Geelong