Epoque Belgian Beer Cafe

nicolavanlaar

Warm, Masculine-style beer cafe 8th June 2007

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For us, Epoque BBC is our local pub, being a 2 minute drive away. It's just handy that it has so many imported specialty beers, well for the beer-drinking boys amongst our party anyway...

Epoque (and its' sister BBC, the 'Heritage' in the Rocks) is a medium-priced, warm, cosy, masculine (think big beer tankards, lots of mahogany and oak furniture/booths and beer paraphanalia), buzzy (sounds bounce off the floor-boards) beer cafe - well restauarant really!

Last night, we went with the family ( 3 year old and 4 month old) and some friends of ours. We skipped entrees and instead ate the 3 year olds chips and ordered drinks and garlic bread. Of the four of us, three ordered the Twice-cooked Crispy Pork Belly for $26.50 and the odd-one out (my husband!) ordered the Flemish Beef Stew cooked in Beer $22.50 that comes with chips and mayonnaise.

The stew was a little bit below the usual par last night, my husband said the gravy is usually darker and more flavoursome... The rest of us were very happy with our streaky (we cut the centre line of fat out), crispy (the crackling was excellent), pork strap on creamy, garlic mash, with a dollop of apple sauce and a glob of finely grated sauerkraut with juniper berries on the side.

I was the only one to have dessert, the Raspberry Crepes for $10.50, which were quite nice but not outstanding - but then again I have extremely high dessert standards! It was two crepes filled with a not too sweet raspberry coulis, folded into quarters with belgian chocolate sauce drizzled on top and a scoop of vanilla bean ice-cream.

If you like mussels (their specialty with chips and mayo), I can highly recommend the white wine mussels in the pot!

The staff were excellent, helping with the pram, providing colouring pencils/paper, patient and friendly. They take bookings and there is some easy, free council parking in the carpark out the back through the rear entrance! Though it is also on the Miller Street bus route.

sue at 08/06/07

Haven't been to Epoque for years! I used to drink there when it first opened : )

nicolavanlaar at 09/06/07

Lovely! Yeah, we went for Dave's 30th birthday, a few years ago now... :)

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