For now we can only live through the Tempura Hajime experience through other people’s meals and blogs. Matthew at Esoteric Rabbit managed to get in before The Age review and had a good chat to the frinedly and very modest owners:
“They apparently pleaded with the paper not to publish the review, which was of course published anyway, and if the three hundred phone calls they received in three days are anything to go by, it’s if someone had taken a bloody great rock and dropped it in the middle of the pond. They hope things will calm down in three or four months, but for now are resigned to playing for packed houses…
“the only place I can think of where, upon finishing your meal, you could have such a candid and courteous conversation with your hosts. It’s also the only restaurant I can think of that wouldn’t kill for a review like the one it received. In short, I can’t think of a more modest restaurant.”
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