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“Bondi Road”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Night Out	Seafood	Lower East Side	Moderate	Great

you look like when you speak Australian.

“A Yabby?” I asked.

“Yes, me’dear,” he said to me. “Let’s get this lady a yabby,” he said to the bartender.

The yabby came in a few moments. I thought it was going to be some large fried fritter thing but it is actually a sort of oversized crayfish found only in Bondi, with plenty of sweet meat that is cut free of its shell so you can lift it out with your fingers, spritz it with some lemon or dip it into the accompanying thousand island dressing (yes, thousand island dressing) and tuck it into your mouth. Sweet! These critters are good. Yabby me anytime baby.

When Erica arrived, I had drained my drink and polished off my Yabby. We got her one too. Then it was time we moved to a table. We were seated at one of the restaurant’s high tops facing the wide screen TVs over the kitchen showing non-stop extreme surfing. We ordered more fresh grapefruit cocktails and got to our ordering plans.

Things at Bondi Road can start off with wraps—little summer lettuce cups filled with lump crab, lobster or shrimp ($8 each), hot pots ($9 each) like New Zealand mussels and garlic prawns, or raw bar—the Yabby, as well as oysters (p/a) and marrons (similar to yabbys but bigger and redder $18). But these preludes are really just the warm up for the real thing which is The Fish—a selection of just flown in seafood from Down Under that includes crimson snapper, barramundi, New Zealand groper (not grouper, this is groper, as in a guy in a bar who wants you), and Suziki Mulloway. Your fish is served your choice of grilled, beer-battered, or breaded. In addition to The Fish, you’ll also find a section of classics, mostly non-fish items like a burger (more on this later), a kangaroo steak with shrimp and corn fritters ($18), and Australian lamb chops ($18) with tomato salad and mint.

Being that the place is known for its fish, we went with two orders of Fish and Chips ($15 each). We decided on the barramundi, which we ordered beer battered, and the groper, which we had breaded. We had three sides ($4 each)—the cole slaw (a fabulous mess of shorn cabbage with a bit of apple and a horseradish kick), the summer corn with tomatoes and mint, and the roasted corn and orzo. And we also ordered a hamburger with the Lot ($10).

Before we get into the wonders of fried fish at Bondi Road ... [more, click below]

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Posted: August 20, 2006

Other restaurants in Lower East Side :
+ Mojo   + WD-50   + Schiller's Liquor Bar   + Azul Bistro   + Barrio Chino   + 71 Clinton Fresh Food-- Closed   + Little Giant   + Kuma Inn   + Falai   + The Stanton Social   + The Tides   + Thor   + The Orchard   + El Bocadito-- CLOSED   + Bondi Road   + Rayuela   + Suba   + Bun (boone)   + Sorella   + The Fat Hippo   + Pulino's   

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