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Image pinched from the Rockpool Bar & Grill WebsiteHas anybody noticed the amount of art finding itself onto menu’s of late? I’m not going to get into the definition of art
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April 27th, 2007 at 11:12 am
>>>>>Taps fingers on the desk waiting for AK’s response>>>>>>:)
April 27th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Seems like 2 months since i have been out for dinner. Thats old my new son is. That said, was recently at Est, no art on the menu there, nor at Salon Blanc. Aside from them, the only art I have seen are the Cartoon like drawings of the publican and the hotel by Michael Lodge, that adorn the walls of the Lord Duduley Hotel. Don’t tell the missus that i snuck in there for a quick middie though. I suppose it will just be a matter of time before the virus spreads from Melbourne and a vist to the gallery will be a thing of the past.
April 27th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
That cow looks like it’s walked straight off the wall at Vlado’s. There’s nothing like eating prime beef with a wall of lowing cows watching you.
April 27th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Funny you should mention that the bull images are popular steals. Rockpool gave me a few of the main and dessert menus because I told them I love the cute bulls on them. And yes, I have framed one big wagyu brown bull. SSSHHHHUUUUU.
April 27th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
I’m uncertain about any Sydney restaurants but as for Melbourne: Becco has changing art on the cover if its menus,
Circa, the Prince has different graphic style art on its menu back, and Cafe Di Stasio seems to also have a arty link with its weekly photo etc in Epicure.
Could this perhaps have any link to the ‘art on wine label senario’ Mouton-Rothschild started back in 1924 and continued by many even in Australia (Leeuwin as one example)? A possible marketing tool?
Jack
April 30th, 2007 at 2:36 am
There’s something gruesomely honest about staring at an image of what you are about to devour, before it was slaughtered and butchered as a means to satisfy your hunger. The grinning cows and chickens adorning Pho cafes are perhaps on a more pedestrian level but equally unnerving.
BTW Earl Carter has just collaborated with David Thompson on his new Hawker food bible. Can’t wait to see it.
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:36 am
Cheers everyone. KH, It is a bit Vlado’s I’f forgotten about the “wall of cow”. Kazmic, I’ll have to return and steal some myself. Jack, you are probably right. i forgot to mention that i had a set of handwritten menus from the Cafe de Paris from the 1930s from my Granny (until a shipping container of my stuff dissapeared). It had those cheesy pics of dogs and kids peeing that you can pick-up from the print stalls along the Seine. Stickyfingers, how about images of cute rabbits. i wonder how that would affect sales. Wow, I can’t wait for the new David Thompson. The old one is so good.
May 8th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
You wrote this back on the 27th, but did you notice in this past weekend’s (May 5-6) edition of The Weekend Australian, Food section (on the back of Travel section)that there was an article commenting on menu art? Was like a carbon copy of your post. They specifically mentioned Mirka and the Botanical, too.
Is this just a spooky coincidence? Or have the Food editors at The Weekend Australian been reading Tomato and poaching your ideas?
Think this definitely deserves some attention… would hate to think of you providing free copy for them!
May 9th, 2007 at 12:03 am
I did try and pitch a story and she asked if she could do it in her column. I was hoping to try and pitch a story around on it but was a little busy at the time. It would have been nice to have written a bigger feature on art infood and wine but I write a fair amount for that section so I don’t mind.