The Eight Restaurant

Restaurants - Hawthorn, VIC

(03) 9818 3881

Address

Shp5/ 815 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia
Restaurant Number 2.

Got a write up in the Melbourne Weekly today as better Chinese Food than Hong Kong. Think this is pushing it a bit - but never been to Hong Kong so maybe the food isn't that great over there ?

Food: 9/10 - Was excellent quality. The Peking Duck was superb, the green veges crisp and tasty and the Szechuan Eye Fillet almost unbelievably good. Serves were medium in size and quite exy.
Service 9.5/10 - What a surprise - got waitered on by the ex-owner of Kingdom in Tooronga Village (I think his name is Chee ?) that closed when they did that stupid redevelopment of the horrible Coles about 2 years ago. His servcie included recommendations for dishes as well as all around spot on servcei.
Ambience 8/10 - Nice and open, you don't hit the table behind you when you slide your chair back. Very open, but also well spread out, so you can't here other peoples conversations. Not really the place for a romantic evening - but I've been married for about 450 years so not an issue here.
Value 4 Money 5.5/10 - Cost about $140 for the 4 of us - BYO helps, but meals are a bit expensive i.e. 4 serves of Peking chicken was $24, so $6 for two bites is pushing it a bit. Good for special occasions or rich people..

Overall 7/10 -Only let down by the price - but nowhere near as exy as say a Vue De Monde, but my reviews are from a family viewpoint and Gillard insists on taking a ridiculous amount of my hard earned and giving it to new immigrants, people who don't work and fringe groups, so I need to not spend too much of what I have leftover if I want to eat when I retire.

Dipalma's Restaurant Hawthorn 779 Glenferrie Road Hawthorn

Dipalma's Restaurant Hawthorn
779 Glenferrie Road
Hawthorn Victoria 3122Tel: (61) 3 9819 2900
Fax: (61) 3 9818 6406

Restaurant Number 1.

Been here before and once described by Gene as "
the best pizza he had ever had" !.
Food: 8/10 - Always good, we had Pizza and Pasta and was all very good
Service 9/10 - We sat out the back and had a Brazillian traveller serve us - he was excellent.
Ambience 8/10 - We like this place, casual yet a bit sophisticated. A bit expensive for the local Footy Club to eat, so fairly quiet more elderly crowd.
Value 4 Money 7.5/10 - Reasonable Prices but Main Past serve was mor eliek entree serve. One large Pizza a good size for 1 meal.

Overall 8/10 - Pretty good. Will return in about 3 months after we finish off all of the other restaurants in Glenferrie Rd Hawrthorn (we counted 13) as it is hard to rate the 1st one