Roasty comfort

It must be the weath­er. I’ve been think­ing about roasts a lot.

So here’s a round-up of the ones I could dig up around the city (there may be oth­ers, so please add to the list in the com­ments):

•  Mat­ter­horn – from 5.30pm until they run out (only so many por­tions). A dif­fer­ent sur­prise meat each week (keep an eye on their FB page).  Twice I’ve struck merino lamb but dif­fer­ent cuts, eleg­ant and won’t stuff you silly, $25.

• Boul­cott Street Bis­tro – from 5.30pm. Roast, red wine and dessert for $45 (or roast and dessert without wine $39). Also a dif­fer­ent sur­prise meat and dessert of the week (ditto re the FB page). Ima­gine it’s also reas­on­ably eleg­ant giv­en the set­ting and usu­al stand­ards.

• The Hop Garden – lunch (11.30am ‑3pm) or din­ner­time (5pm – 9pm). Ditto re chan­ging roasts for $20 (again with the FB) but no drink assigned so the full range of craft beers and wines are yours to choose.

• The Feath­er­ston (pic­tured) – Sat­urday and Sunday all day. Roast pork with crack­ling for $19.50. Prob­ably one of the best known around the city (and there’s a reas­on for that). I dare you not to fol­low it with the pea­nut but­ter and jelly ice cream.

• The Grand – from 5pm. Beef or ham (inter­est­ing choice) for $17.50.

• South­ern Cross – from 6pm. Anoth­er of the long-stand­ing ones, again with dif­fer­ing meat each week. $18 includ­ing a fizzy and a free brownie at the end appar­ently (huh).

• Bis­tro on Wil­lis – from 4.30pm. This is the former Pic­colo folks from Vivi­an Street in the old Cit­ron ven­ue up Wil­lis Street. Again dif­fer­ent meats each week (yadda yadda FB) and $38 incl wine and dessert.

• The Welsh Dragon Bar – from 4–7pm. A tra­di­tion­al ‘Welsh’ roast (one would expect lamb then), $20 for 2 courses or $25 for 3. Beware pub quizz­ing com­mences at 8pm (yadda FB).

• The Tast­ing Room – a whis­per that they’re about to start a rotis­ser­ie chick­en Sunday din­ner with roast-style veg­gies. One to keep an eye on (I’m not even gonna say it, just here).

Depend­ing on how much choice you like, what time of day or night you fancy, and how much you feel like pay­ing, there’s good few belly fillers on offer…