PB has a new bar menu

.............. so Rita ended up there today sampling the wares.

It reads really well, and I got quite excited, finding there were two or three possible options I wanted to try. In the end I decided on the Char grilled tuna. My lunch companion seemed to have had his mind made up on a steak, but at ordering time decided on their Hamburger, which arrived piled up to the sky with the usual fillings (a fried egg, lettuce, tomato slice etc) inside the bun which was secured with a satay stick! It was accompanied by chips as well, and I thought was excellent value at $17. While he didn’t leap on the table in gastronomic ecstasy, he did say he enjoyed it.

My tuna dish ($14) was a let down. The individual items which comprised this plateful and which I had read prior to ordering on the menu were all things I enjoy, like the tuna, lettuce, green beans, anchovy, red onion and steamed potato. Put them all together on a plate, add a bit of dressing to the lettuce, and it all added up to – nothing really, other than it all sitting together nicely assembled on the plate! No individual flavours married with anything else, so it just didn’t flow together to make a lip-smacking meal.

So the tuna was a tad on the dry side; the lettuce was lettuce; the potato was just potato peeled, cubed and steamed; the beans were beans, etc etc.

Re-reading this, I know what I’m trying to express but not sure if I’ve actually accomplished it.

But – as I commented to someone yesterday, at PB they could serve me ANYTHING and I’d love eating it in those fabulous surroundings. It was heavenly sitting outside in the sun there today, and obviously most of Hobart agreed with me, as half of them were there too! The others who weren’t at the Show or PB, were at Barilla Bay, sitting outside also in the sun, coiffing oysters, as I discovered taking my guest out to the airport via Barilla Bay to grab some mussels!