Bucatini Restaurant and Bar (II)

We managed to get a table due to our early-ish arrival for dinner; but we had to wait a few minutes until menus were handed over.  At this stage the waiter went thru the specials, took our drinks order and poured us water from a bottle which was left on the table.  Water was nice and cool and ET managed to polish off the whole bottle before the end of the meal so they offered to refill it.  For this, they get a thumbs up from me for water wellness.

To start off, ET ordered the T-bone steak rare.  He thought it was spot on, unlike his previous steak order at Bucatini which was below par.

My Barramundi special was fine.  But nothing too special, I must admit.

Bucatini doesn’t have large serves so we decided to go on to dessert.  I ordered the orange and almond flourless cake.  Again, I thought it nothing special.

ET enjoyed his sticky date pudding.  Even though the angle of the photo may be a little deceptive, you can tell the pudding wasn't a very big server either.

On the night it was not always easy to get staff attention.  Although both the waiter and manager asked how our meals were within minutes of each other.  But I’m not really a fan of this.  I think asking for feedback once per meal is enough.

And finally, as we drove off ET noticed their sign and said quizically "Restaurant and bar"?  Although there's a big display of assorted bottles of alcohol, we have yet to see an area where people enjoy drinks by a counter.  And after all, isn't that the definition of a bar?

Bucatini Restaurant and Bar

454 Whitehorse Rd, Mitcham

Bucatini Restaurant and Bar

Yet another busy restaurant in the suburbs Bucatini is attached to a pizza takeaway so ET was a bit reluctant to order a pizza.  Not being able to recall seeing a particular pizza on the takeaway menu, ET was not disappointed with his choice.  He thought it was delicious!

I went for the Atlantic salmon special.  I was worried about the mention of onions and capsicums.  However, I was able to pick out the onions and was surprised how sweet and soft the capsicum was, so it was only the onions that was left on my plate.

Being a fan of capers, I was disappointed to count only 2 on top of my salmon.  And I'm not sure if I was just real hungry or it was a small serving, but not only did I polish off my meal but ET (surprisingly not being able to finish his meal before me for the first time ever), gave me a slice of his pizza which I also managed to polish off!  After picking out the capsicums and onions first, of course. ;)

Staff seems to always be good here.  I'm just not sure it's a good idea to announce specials after you've already read thru the menu and decided on a meal.  As the wait staff said, "Just to confuse you even more"...

Bucatini Restaurant and Bar

454 Whitehorse Rd, Mitcham

7/10 Update - Embarrassingly this restaurant's name was originally misspelt on this post.  Woops!  All fixed now though. :s