The Oxford scholar has been the place where RMIT students and CBD corporates have been coming for years. Recently they have had a revamp and the décor creates a new and exciting place for drinks and good food.
The poke bowl had a beautifully cooked piece of salmon with a soy glaze served over soba noodles with a sesame dressing. There was a dollop of creamy avocado and lots of colourful pickled vegetables mixed through.
The spring rolls were filled with juicy pulled pork and the sweet and sour chilli nam jim was the perfect dipping sauce.
Kataifi is a shredded crisp pastry that the king prawns were coated in before being deep fried. This resulted in a crunchy flakey crunch with a sweet juicy prawn in the middle. It came with a green pesto yoghurt.
My fave was the cola braised beef burger. It had melt in your mouth beef short rib served in a soft buttermilk bun with an amazing onion ring on top. Could have had a bowl of those onion rings and the burger was delish.
The yellow curry had crispy cubes of tofu with eggplant, zucchini and baby corn on a bed of coconut sticky rice.
I heart The Oxford Scholar!
Olives x
The Oxford Scholar Hotel
Address: 427 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Website: http://theoxfordscholar.com.au
Phone: (03) 9964 6976
Trading Hours: Mon-Fri: 8am-12am, Sat-Sun: 12pm-1am
