Cabinet Bar

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• Cabinet

  Matt Preston, Reviewer

  Monday, May 07, 2007

  A "classic retro with a twist" menu is combined with an interior of a traditional lounge bar.

  READING about the opening of a new place to eat on the back page of The Age is a first for me but then the owners of Cabinet aren't just the usual cashed-up, severance-package cafe hopefuls. They have connections (hence the mention in Diary). Four of them are involved in CPR, a communications and PR company that claims to have the ears of key government decision-makers. It follows that the restaurant will be a place for pollies - and those who seek to influence them - to eat and drink, even in these post-Brian Burke days. Me, I love the idea of being able to eavesdrop on ministers bitching about each other. Visiting for a post-lunch coffee, I noticed two things apart from the shot of Cafe Supreme that wasn't half bad. 1) That politicians appeared to be staying away in droves. 2) That the blackboard menu from ex-Canary Club chef Melanie Pendray had a rather lovely list of retro classics. Think chicken and mushroom vol-au-vents or a chicken breast rolled with apricot and came...

  Source: The Age

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