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The Sunday Mail (Qld)
Sunday, January 18, 2009
BISCOTTI at Broadbeach serves up a mix of Italian and local digressions, and has a martini bar that helps make the most of the location.
It's in a good location to get plenty of business, between popular bar Lauxes and award-winning steakhouse Moo Moo.
But on our Sunday lunch visit we were the only customers. Apparently the restaurant was recovering from a busy Friday and Saturday evening, so the lack of patrons was a welcome relief for our waiter and it meant we had her undivided attention.
She was softly spoken but helpful, competent and efficient. The food, as expected with no one else in the restaurant, also arrived in good time. The decor is a strange mix of varying decades but by keeping the colour tones the same, it somehow seems to work.
The chocolate laminate tables and chocolate rattan-weave chairs outside are modern and clean-looking, while inside the oak-coloured timber chairs with orange fabric seats are old-fashioned, contrasting with the dozens of retro yellow, red and orange hanging lanterns on the ceiling. It is bright ...
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The Courier-Mail
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
BISCOTTI is the sister restaurant to Bistro Blanc and the 16th incarnation of veteran French-born Gold Coast restaurateur Thierry Hainaut.
Like Bistro Blanc, Biscotti is colourfully decked out and where Bistro Blanc is clearly art deco French in style, Biscotti is contemporary Italian.
Wedged between Moo Moo Bar, The Wine Bar + Grill and Lauxes, an upmarket champagne bar, it opens on to a Broadbeach park with an outdoor dining strip that catches the sea breezes.
Inside on a slightly raised platform with a brick wall as a backdrop are rustic Italian tables and chairs covered with vivid burnt orange, red and yellow overlays that match the cluster of light-fittings that hang from the ceiling.
An equally vivid bar is off to one side divided by a classic Italian serving table that stores cutlery, menus and the like.
The menu is freewheeling and plentiful and, although it could initially appear to be regional Italian, hints of the owner's origins have sneaked in here and there.
Lobster bisque is one such example and arrives in a lion's head soup bo...
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Broadbeach, QLD
Broadbeach, QLD
Broadbeach, QLD
Broadbeach, QLD
Broadbeach, QLD
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