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"Fine Delicacy"

Courier Mail
5 April 2005
By: Lizzie Loel

Vino's perched high on the Eagle Street Pier, is a large bar and restaurant that follows the curve of the building to maximise the impact of this lovely reach of the river. Outside is furnished with the usual casual Outdoor settings and indoors is an elegant blend of dark wood finishes and crisp white linen. We arrived for lunch just seconds before a sudden rainstorm temporarily engulfed the view and sat watching the weather action from Our comfortable perch on the upper level of the dining room.

A cellar of more than 300 bottles of Premium and vintage wines divides the bar from the restaurant, which spills over a couple of levels. This is the kind of wine collection you would expect from restaurateur and wine merchant Ted Stewart, who was born and raised in the industry. The menu, created by French chef Philippe Desrettes is diverse and appealing, covering all the bases for the well?heeled business crowd. There are oysters, natural or kilpatrick, salt and pepper cuttlefish and some interesting pizzas for the less adventurous. But we were after the yabby and avocado salad and the beef carpaccio, which both sounded great.

My carpaccio was meltingly tender, lemony but not overly so and crowned with a little dressed salad of leaves and peeled segments of lemon. It was full of flavour and light, leaving me ready and able to tackle my upcoming
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Vino's Restaurant

From the moment we walk past McDonald's and go up the escalator, Stairway to Heaven is running through my head.

Admittedly, that happens most times I come into contact with escalators (and, to my horror, the Rolf Harris version tends to take over at some point), but still we know we're in for a treat.

Vino's Restaurant and Bar, upstairs at Eagle St Pier, is where river views are the norm and fine food is in abundance.

We're ushered to our riverside table and , no matter how many times you see it, the Story Bridge in all its lit-up glory is still a sight to behold.

Cameron Atfield - mX