17 April 2013

Edgars Inn at Ainslie. Lunch review

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Barcham and I lunched at Edgars in Ainslie today.

A touch north of $50 secured two pints of Squire’s Golden ale a charcuterie plate and some wings.

So it’s a bit more pricey than chowing down for Burmese curry. On the other hand you don’t put your used plates into a garbage bin at Edgar’s either.

The beer garden, it should be noted, remains a joy post fortification.

Wikipedia has this to say about Charcuterie: the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products, such as bacon, ham, sausage, terrines, galantines, pâtés, and confit, primarily from pork.

In practice around town it seems to be French for “ploughman’s lunch”.

The highlight of this particular plate is the confit of duck leg (delicious as one would expect) but the olives, pickles, onion jam, ham, blue cheese, and salami (nothing special about the salami) all combined very pleasantly.

If you like your meats, and a pint, for lunch then it’s definitely a goer.


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Kerryhemsley11:04 am 19 Apr 13

My favourite Canberra watering hole. Food is not brilliant but does the job. Staff are friendly and the atmosphere is great. Indeed every suburb should have one.

The reviewed sites would probably appreciate a listed address (or coordinates) for those Flash-deficient.

There’s obviously some QC issues because the last time I went I ordered a pizza and it was doughy in the middle. Made my lunch partner feel a little unwell.

Beer was fine though.

poetix said :

That is not very good for you, you know, apart from the beer, and whatever the green stuff may be. Because green stuff is always healthy.

so green beer is da bomb? bring on st paddy’s day every day!

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd4:24 pm 17 Apr 13

My only two experiences there have been poor. Dirty beer lines or bad beer on the first occasion and second occasion I took my wife and girls for lunch. We sat down at a table 5 minutes before lunch starts and was very rudely told lunch doesnot start for 5 more minutes. We quickly left and headed to George.

poetix said :

That is not very good for you, you know, apart from the beer, and whatever the green stuff may be. Because green stuff is always healthy.

Soylent green isn’t healthy for some.

love edgars every suburb should have a place like this, it makes me wish I lived in Ainslie

neanderthalsis3:30 pm 17 Apr 13

The last time I was there (and it will be the last time) it felt like I was having an overpriced cider and tapas plate behind the blast walls in the Green Zone in Bagdad

That is not very good for you, you know, apart from the beer, and whatever the green stuff may be. Because green stuff is always healthy.

Well there were pickles, and olives, and onion jam.

nice looking lunch.

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