A pre-football dinner brought us to Bistrot Bistro, in the revamped Logan Rd precint of Woolloongabba. We arrived on time and were seated, we had all reviewed the menu online prior to booking our dinner, there were many very enticing choices. Our server eventually came over to us, and to this point we hadn’t even been offered drinks. The soup of the day sounded very appealling, cauliflower and black truffle oil. However, we settled on mains with dessert as we were a bit limited by time.
I chose the pork belly after much deliberation, the linguine came a very close second though. My dining companions chose the whole trout and the lamp pie. We ordered the chocolate fondant and lemon pie as well. There was a good selection of wines by the glass on offer.
After we received the correct drink order, our meals were soon to follow. The presentation of our meals was beautiful, the trout had a lovely yellow butter sauce. My pork was served with some asian greens and petit pois, we also ordered brocollini and potato chips as sides. I thoroughly enjoyed my meal, with beautifully mixed flavours and textures. The trout was soft and moist. The lamb, while tasty, was nothing special. A slow cooker could probably whip up an as tasty dish as this one. Though it had a lovely puffy pastry lid.
Our plates were cleared and our desserts arrived soon after. The 2 fondants were beautifully plated with strawberry cream and diced strawberries. The lemon tart, served with ginger cream, was apparently very well matched.
The service unfortunately was a bit lacking, from blank stares as we walked through the door to having to request a server taking a pre-dinner drink order, then struggling to get attention enough to order coffees to accompany our desserts. The staff all seemed to have French accents, we did debate their authenticity…