Sydney Food Diary: Cubby’s Kitchen, Surry Hills

img_5895 Does Cubby’s live up to its hype and long queues? YAAASS.

Modern Lebanese food, from one of the owners of Toko: I’ve been wanting to try this one.

In some ways, it’s similar to a lot of the new Aussie restaurants: share plates, big flavours and grilled and smoky flavours. But the difference here is that this touch is applied to Lebanese food.

img_5889And it’s absolutely delicious. The smoked labne was so tasty.

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Grilled burnt corn, only for $6, was astonishing.

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Pastries with meat inside are always a hit with me… coming just after dumplings as a favourite food group.

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One of the specials of the day were these incredible grilled king prawns, as succulent and sweet as can be.

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And all this and knafeh, the delicious cheese custardy Middle Eastern dessert, which I first tried from the Knafeh food truck and now will never be the same…

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Service, mainly from a waiter from Strassbourg, was both efficient and friendly, and the wine was fine. We didn’t love being at a shared table, sandwiched between some other parties (with the distance across the table just a little too wide, meaning we had to raise our voices to chat).

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But this is amazing food in a buzzy atmosphere. It’s called a ‘pop-up’ so I don’t know how long it will be here, though it sounds like they’ll be trying to make it permanent in another venue nearby. Bigly recommendation from here.

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