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Food Coma in Bedouin Kitchen

What I love about Melbourne is, you never know when you stumble upon a really good restaurant.


Literally.. I was dropping off a friend around St. Kilda, and we were quite hungry and was looking for a place to eat.. We were actually heading towards Acland Street…



So walking walking…. We looked across the street and saw a really strange looking sign.. My friend was like..


“Is that place Thai?”

and I was thinking..


“is that place even a restaurant?”

lol



We crossed the road.. saw the menu.. and a little window.. lol..



So it was a restaurant, but was it opened?



I suggested we just stick our heads in the window and just ask. LOL


We walked in and was in AWE!

It was beautiful inside! Absolutely beautiful!

(sorry, poor quality photos with my phone… hence why I enlarged the photos so you can hopefully see more clearly!)



We looked at the menus… Had no idea.. so .. like I always do in a restaurant that I don’t know what’s happening… I always ask this one question…



“What’s good here?”



LOL



More often than not, you get a really detailed answer, if the waiter is a good one, but if you walk into the fine dining experiences that we find ourselves in, they will have that detail answer you’re looking for.



He introduced a whole lot of dishes to us, to which a lot of them sounded good and we did choose them in the end!



From speaking to the boss later… we found out that “Bedouin Kitchen” is actually an Egyptian/Arabic kind of restaurant (I know right.. exotic) that serves Egyptian Mezze.

Mezze is a word that in Chinese Cuisine is translated to mean “Food” or in Spanish Cuisine to mean “Tapas”. So it’s the experience of sharing small dishes type of eating.. but as an Asian.. I’m really used to that style of eating.

lol




Anyways… to the food…



(Oh by the way the boss is Bernie! Way friendly guy!! )



The first dish we ordered was the Mahshi - which is a lamb mince, rolled in cabbage leaves and topped with a spicy tomato sauce. It had a really nice herbal and spicy aromatic flagrance.. though to me.. it smelt like that noodle dish at that urumqi restaurant I went to… a sort of B.O. smell.. lol.. I’m sorry Bernie!

We had warm olives.. which I thought it was gonna be something different.. But it literally was warmed olives. LOL.

Then we had the Field Mushrooms. OH MY GOODNESS!! This was DELICIOUS! Imagine a big portobello mushroom, topped with fetta, dill, butter and garlic.. Just delicious! It has this really nice aromatic nutty flavour to it. Perfect!

Absolutely perfect! mmmmmmmm …… Oh gosh.. i’m hungry just thinking about it.The mushrooms were kinna crispy on the outside, but so juicy and yummmm!! :P~






Then we had the chargrilled Quail.. It was nice.. I like quail.. it’s nice and tender.. though the taste of this particular dish tasted like charcoal chicken.. but then again.. it is chargrilled. LOL… the quail was served over a bed of baby spinach.. Yum!

The final dish we had was the filler which was the Vegetarian Claypot.. which I totally forgot the name! LOL It was really interesting.. Rice mixed with macaroni, topped with beans and the spicy tomato sauce on top.. at first it was quite bland.. but after mixing in the tomato sauce.. oh it was nice!! and really filling!!

Like really nice!

mmmmm…. Oh did I mention, I couldn’t go anywhere without a glass of Red. Cabernet Merlot from Barossa Valley, South Australia.. mmmmmmm yummmmmmm!!!

For dessert…. they ran out of dessert that night.. so as a treat, they gave us complimentary turkish delight, which was sooo good!! and also arabic coffee, but I had the arabic peppermint tea because I don’t drink coffee (I’m not good with caffeine).

The turkish delight was sooo much better than the one we had at that turkish place!! So nice and not too sweet at all!! ..

(ok.. I forgot to take a photo of the Turkish delight.. but that’s one little one left.. along with some olives left.. the teapot and a glass of water. hehehehe)





The peppermint tea?

(ohh crapp… so dark… but these were the tea cups, which reminded me of that glass they used to hold that potent Turkish drink …. ickyyy)






OMGoshh.. it was TOOO GOOODD!! It was sweet.. and I think I saw him crush the peppermint leaves with some honey and the actual tea.. and they were served in these really cute little pots..

The Arabic Coffee actually smelt really good… But unfortunately didn’t get to try it…

VERDICT: 4.5 out of 5

Actually a really good place! And really secretive! The food is really interesting and the service is TOP NOTCH! The service simply was just too great! The best service I’ve ever come across! The boss actually was so nice to us! The food was good and it came out really promtly. The drinks bar was just in front of us, so it was good to see the waiter preparing our drinks in style.. A truly relaxing and beautiful place! YOU MUST GO THERE!

Where is it? 103 Grey Street, St. Kilda

Contact - bookings@bedouinkitchen.com.au for bookings

or call - 9534 0888



ps. I really need to keep a note to either bring a freaking camera with me always! OR invest in a better phone with a better camera…. LOL



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