Austro Lounge18+
Kitchen & bar

River fish, Riverina cheese, fortified wine after ten

A short board that looks in both directions across the river, and a bar built around small glasses of something sweet at the end of a long night.

In the kitchen

What comes out of the parcels office

Fish arrives whole and gets broken down here, which is why the board says cod on some nights and yellowbelly on others rather than promising both.

Cheese is the other half of the kitchen. Four at a time off Riverina dairies, cut to order, with honey and the bread that comes out at five.

Everything is cooked to order and a full Friday will keep you waiting twenty minutes for a plate. We say so when you book rather than letting you find out.

A whole river fish going out from the kitchen

To begin

Bread at five, pickled river greens, cured yellowbelly.

The middle

Whole fish off the grill, or the four-cheese board.

After ten

Muscat and topaque by the small glass, cheese still going.

Timing

When the kitchen and the bar are working

4.30pm – 6pmBread and small plates only

Open

6pm – 9pmFull board, both legs of the fish

Open

9pm – 10.30pmShort board after the change

Open

10.30pm – 12amClosed

Cheese, bread and fortifieds