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Trunk
Ph: 9663 7994; 275 Exhibition St, MELBOURNE 3000 www.trunktown.com.au
Italian, $$ +
Open Lunch Mon-Fri noon-3pm Dinner Mon-Sat 6pm-10.30pm; Licensed; AE DC MC V EFT
Other published opinions
Gourmet Traveller 2009 Australian Restaurant Guide "Melbourne is littered with restaurants built by Trent Alexander, but with Trunk we have the builder's first job with himself as client. It's a marvellous re-working of a unique, gardened city block to create a bar, bistro and (slightly) more formal dining room"
The Age John Lethlean, 18-2-2008 Score: 15/20 "Beneath over-sized naked bulbs dangling pendulously from church-high ceilings, and amid the whiff of expensive perfume, the subtle bling of stockbroking cufflinks and the slightly intimidating scrum of quite beautiful people who have found their way to tables at Trunk this very evening, I find myself wondering: just how many permutations of The Italian Restaurant can a city have? Of course, Trunk - built from scratch on a unique city plot within an old red brick former synagogue - wouldn't call itself an Italian restaurant. It's a bar; a bistro; a modern dining room for young (and not so young) sophisticates"
Or perhaps ...
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