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• St Jude's Cellars

  John Lethlean, Reviewer

  Tuesday, July 22, 2008

  It's a marvellous place - but you have to crack the code.

  Standing on a cold, Brunswick Street footpath at 11pm outside The Strip's cool new addition to the fraternity, the truth about St Jude's finally dawns. It's a marvellous place - but you have to crack the code. And like all good codes, it takes a little time. All white tiles, lofty factory ceilings, black wire-mesh furnishings and multi-option seating, St Jude's opened several months ago, a bold venture for a street sorely in need of new food and wine ideas. It does a lot of things well, and most with a touch of quirk, but the restaurant's real difference is that it's all about sharing. Every dish coming from the semi-open rear kitchen (except perhaps for the odd dessert) is destined for the table's centre. It's an approach in tune with the times. And over the months, I've eaten here four times, and I've tried to replicate most of the typical customer scenarios. Kids, friends, colleagues, lunches and dinners. But a faint sense of ambiguity, a subtle conviction deficit, has b...

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• St Jude's Cellars

  Dani Valent, Reviewer

  Tuesday, May 06, 2008

  It's always impressive when a restaurant lets you believe that life is wholly good.

  What's up at St Jude's? Two people are playing cards and drinking sherry at the bar. Over by the wall, a fashion-plate girl is sitting on a lucky lover's lap while he pretends to concentrate on a glass of tempranillo. Down the back, a dozen revellers line either side of a long table, pulling meat from a roasted, salt-crusted shoulder of lamb. At my table, we're comparing the perfect, flirty peck of a sparkling Spanish rose with the perfectly grand sneer of an impeccable vodka martini. I am perfectly happy. It's always impressive when a restaurant lets you believe that life is wholly good, even if it's only for that one glimmering moment between taking a sip and letting the glass find gravity again. What's even more impressive is that St Jude's can offer those perfect moments only weeks after opening for business. There are good reasons St Jude's has hit the ground running. It's owned by people who know a thing or two about restaurants: James Langley and Laki Papadopoulos, also...

  Source: The Age

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• St Jude's Cellars

  Michael Harden, Reviewer

  Wednesday, April 16, 2008

  Those seeking an interesting drink far from the madding crowd should find St Jude's just the ticket.

  The combination of "bar" and "Brunswick Street" in the same sentence does not necessarily inspire confidence, particularly if you've been witness to the lurching, vomiting hell that is Fitzroy's main entertainment precinct late on a Friday night. But the street has always had its pockets of relative calm for those nightcappers seeking something other than a bucket of Jagermeister and Red Bull. St Jude's Cellars, which opened quietly less than a month ago, is the latest recruit to score a goal for the calm team. St Jude's is one of those neo-mixed businesses that juggles several strands, a bar being one of them. The cavernous, double-fronted space has been cleverly divvied up ? bottle shop caged by black metal wine racks at the front, semi-open kitchen at the back, spacious dining area partitioned by wooden banquettes and planter boxes full of happy-looking plants, white-tiled, black-grouted bar snaking along the considerable length of the room ? so that the excess of space ...

  Source: The Age

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