The Malvern Hotel, Toorak
Cnr Glenferrie and Malvern Rds, Toorak www.themalvern.com
Those who know me (i.e. you), also know that there’s not much I like
better than a lunch. A looooong
lunch. Specifically, a long lunch
with fine dining, crisp salad, saliva inducing savoury dishes, and (of course) a beverage or two.
And if you can have a lunch under the auspices of work, all the
better.
On Tuesday I attended what is known in the hotelier’s trade as a “publicans' lunch”. If you haven’t heard of
them, you need to be a publican (i.e. a licensee of a pub), or the guest of a
publican, to attend.
I walked in the door and the sound of talk and the clink of glasses
washed over me like the lap of welcome water after a year in the desert. It’s “an event” lunch, in support of some cause; but they haven’t nominated who they’re supporting with their raffles yet. But going to the lunch was a cause I could believe in: i.e pubs. And the beautiful liquid
amber fluid that is BEER.
I mean, come on!
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