RJIE 16: Lunch at Moose and Gibson

Oh hey, so Moose and Gibson has a lunch menu now? On it.

I picked up a blackberry, honey and yoghurt smoothie. It had a lot of seeds in it as expected of blackberries, I'm the kind of person who chews fruit seeds so I did more chewing than swallowing with this drink. The texture reminded me of a really thick Greek style yoghurt rather than a drink.

My Boyfriend ordered the iced coffee with whipped cream and ice cream. Its a very tasty iced coffee with the lovely taste of their smooth, sweet coffee and a very good vanilla ice cream. I was quite envious, not only of the appearance but the lovely taste of this ice coffee. I stole more than my fair share to be honest.

My Boyfriend ordered the beer battered fish and chips with lemon aioli. The fish was lovely, firm, fresh tasting and deliciously flakey. It was a bit strange looking with its batter due to the smallest size of the fillets, they resembled nothing more than deep fried worms haha. The lemon aioli was intensely lemony, so much so that the lemon was completely ignored by my Boyfriend when he was eating his fish. The house cut chips he stated were crispy and salty.

I got the beef cheek pot pie. The pot pie is super cute by the way, I wish I had little pots this cute for my pot pies, I just use my white hobo ramekins from Target. The beef was meltingly tender, and when I poked it with my fork it just fell apart. The sauce was quite rich, I was a little apprehensive initially due to the small size, but since it was so rich I didn't even finish most of it. The red wine flavour was very strong and almost slightly bitter, like when the wine hasn't evaporated properly? I'm a bit sensitive to alcohol so that's just my impression. I ate most of my salad, except the slightly dodgy chunk of mesculin that had dirt on its leaves still. My chips were floppy, soft but still hard in the centre and had zero salt on them. I stole his aioli to dip the chips into to compensate.

Moose and Gibson
Atmosphere: 8, beautiful as ever.
Service: 8. They've really stepped up their game since the last time I was here. Much more prompt and welcoming.
Food: 6, not particularly excited by the lunch menu. Some things were good but a bit hit and miss.