Cavallero

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• Cavallero

  Dani Valent, Reviewer

  Tuesday, September 18, 2007

  The place feels quietly confident and is customer-driven, not in a sucky have-a-nice-day sense.

  There are a few questions I get asked all the time. Do restaurants know they're being reviewed? No. I try to fly under the radar. Do you pay for your meals? Yes, then The Sunday Age's dispensing angel reimburses me from a velvet pouch stocked with jingle-jangle gold pieces. How do you decide what to eat? Well, sometimes I order a dish that sounds really boring, or is a restaurant standard, just to see if a particular chef can make it exciting. It's my silent challenge: go on, surprise me, make my day. Thrill me with your crisp-skinned salmon, twice-cooked duck or your mozza-bloody-rella. So it was with the pumpkin gnocchi at Cavallero. When I ordered it, I was fully expecting to be underwhelmed by a bowl of stodge slopped with orange plops. It wasn't to be. The entrees hinted that Cavallero's gnocchi might be ahead of the pack. Lamb kofte were rich, juicy and nicely spiced, offset by a tizzy dill salad and wet, tasty skordalia. Creamy ewe's fetta wrapped in slick, tender eggplant...

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• Cavallero

  Michael Harden, Reviewer

  Monday, April 09, 2007

  With more places like this, Smith Street might just become respectable.

  SMITH Street had better watch itself or it might just become respectable. Drunken brawls, beggars, pawn shops and Safeway aside, there is a definite feeling that this psychotically eclectic strip is making room for a little style and substance in its mix. Perhaps it is the winds of cool blowing around the corner from Gertrude Street that are bringing the change but, whatever the reason, Smith Street is styling up and Cavallero is helping to lead the charge. There is nothing flashy about Cavallero's cool. In fact, its low-key, even spartan fitout is hard to spot from the street unless you know what you're looking for. White-washed walls are mostly unadorned (aside from a stag's head behind the bar) and the furniture and fittings are dark and neutral. There are a couple of deep booths upholstered in dark green leather, a wooden communal table at the back under an oversized silvery-domed light shade and a wooden bar lined with comfortable upholstered bar stools. At the front n...

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