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Mr Liquor’s Dirty Italian Disco Opens on Friday

Mr Liquor’s Dirty Italian Disco, a collaboration between Merivale and Sydney chefs Mike Eggert and Jemma Whiteman, is set to open this Friday 20 October.

Mr Liquor’s Dirty Italian Disco

Located in what is currently the drive-in bottle shop of The Tennyson Hotel, the pop-up eatery will serve up American-style Italian for a six-month duration.

Eggert and Whiteman have created a short and snappy menu of bruschetta, pasta and wood-roasted meats, with dishes set to change regularly. There’s the classic trio of bread/pasta, cheese and meat with  simple, uncomplicated, rustic style food.

Expect ‘chicken liver parfait with sweet onion and chive’, ‘beef tongue with confit tomato and crispy garlic’, ‘meat loaf with dill pickle’, a selection of bruschetta – ‘anchovy and tomato’, ‘octopus, potato and mint’, ‘pumpkin, lardo and chili’, ‘peas, beans and stracciatella’ and ‘raw veal, whipped tuna with bitter greens’. Classic pastas include ‘pappardelle verde’ and ‘fusilli with lamb ragyu’, alongside seafood and meats cooked on the grill – ‘whole arrow squid with parsley and lemon’, ‘porchetta with charred scallion’ or ‘500g bistecca with mustard and parmesan’.

Keeping in theme with the original bottle shop experience, guests will be able to buy their own alcohol from the walk-in fridge, before ordering at the counter and dining in the 90-seater drive-way eatery. Franck Moreau has curated the selection of over 150 wines with a focus on boutique, craft and organic wines and unusual varieties. There will also be bottled classic aperitifs & digestifs, seasonal cocktails with kitchen ingredients, carefully selected amari and homemade cellos.

Mr Liquor’s Dirty Italian Disco opens Friday 20 October, 2017.

Mr Liquor’s Dirty Italian Disco
Tennyson Hotel Drive in Bottle Shop
952 Botany Rd, Mascot
merivale.com.au/mr- liquor-dirty-italian-disco
Wednesday – Friday – 6pm-12am
Saturday – 12pm – 12am
Sunday – 12pm – 10pm

About the author

Corinne Mossati

Corinne Mossati is a drinks writer, author of GROW YOUR OWN COCKTAIL GARDEN, SHRUBS & BOTANICAL SODAS and founder/editor of Gourmantic, Cocktails & Bars and The Gourmantic Garden. She has been writing extensively about spirits, cocktails, bars and cocktail gardening in more recent years. She is a spirits and cocktail competition judge, Icons of Whisky Australia nominee, contributor to Diageo Bar Academy, cocktail developer and is named in Australian Bartender Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential List. Her cocktail garden was featured on ABC TV’s Gardening Australia and has won several awards. She is a contributor to Real World Gardener radio program and is featured in several publications including Pip Magazine, Organic Gardener, Australian Bartender and Breathe (UK). Read the full bio here.