(08-10-2020, 05:43 AM)cookie2 date Wrote:My lunch place of choice, especially on Fridays. was Pinnochio's Pizza in Toorak Rd. Used to work in that area going back 20 years or so. There was a good bottle shop next door so a reasonable bottle of red and a Mexicana was a great lunch.Wowsa you're triggering more memories, that area was also seemingly associated with alcohol, I'm detecting a trend in my storyline!
The South Yarra Club, that is the old old South Yarra Club, which was all club lounges and leather seats. Just a bit down the way The Prahran Club, which was more bare timber grunge and full of intellectual bohemian's wearing bow ties.
Back then if you wanted a wine at the SYC you had to buy a bottle, the food wasn't so good, most patrons went down the road to a local Chinese for dinner that was top notch! However, the SYC wine list was extraordinary if you could afford it, most got a little faint or flustered reading it and went straight to the cheapest bottle.
The Prahran Club had a dinner menu of about five items from the 50s or 60s, bangers and mash, or fish and chips I recall was about 90% of the service for about $4.50 a plate. But they had four full-sized snooker tables and some of the best beer in the area. I have this vague memory of trying to play snooker as a tram passes and all the balls wobbling around, maybe I was swaying a bit! it had two very famous patrons, Albert Lavere a world renowned gambler card shark, and the guys from Crowded House who brought in all sorts of famous transients.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"