Ezard
Flinders Lane

Gingerboy
Crossley Street

I couldn’t decide which Teage Ezard restaurant to add to my ‘favourites’ list, so, well, you choose.

Ezard is a ‘proper’ restaurant. A fine – rather very fine – dining experience. A slick and intimate dining room of plush carpets, shiny, shiny glassware and highly starched linen. You certainly get the ‘special’ in ‘special occasion dining’. But where so often the food falls short of the linen/glassware/carpet promise, at Ezard it confidently lives up to expectations. Modern Australian with a hearty smile to China and a warm wave to Thailand, executed with creativity.

Gingerboy is Teage Ezard’s ‘Hawker-style’ eatery at the cheaper end of the Asian food continuum. While not exactly Hawker prices, they are significantly lower than those at Ezard. A noisy eatery with waitstaff that are sometimes a tad too brusque, the food is still superb. The red duck curry is a knock out, as too are the prawn and ginger house-made dumplings and the signature son-in-law eggs.

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