Great food and fantastic ambiance in the restaurant . Rooftop bar was a bit loud and cramped but everything about the dining downstairs ticked the boxes . Our waiter was absolutely fantastic too - great customer service . Highly recommend and would definately be back ��
The service and food was amazing.... Ever dish was so tasty and well prepared and our waitress was always making sure everything was fine and we were happy with our meals.
I highly recommend eating at Bomba.
We will be back again
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Great to see Bomba Rooftop still going strong on our recent after works drinks visit. A good range of tap beer and some delightful looking cocktails too. There was only space at the southern end as opposed to the sunny northern side. Very echoey from all the chit chat of happy drinkers. Good selection of bar snacks, skewers and platters.
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We came here for a midweek work function after a full on team building day and we were all ready for a relaxing drink. I loved the cozy rooftop space and we got there as it was just starting to get dark so the views of the city scrap and crawling cars were a joy. It's always good when someone else is paying for drinks but I liked the eclectic mix of beers on the menu, both local and further afield. I settled on the only tap beer which was a Four Pines Kolsch which is a easy drinking German styled beer. There were about 30 of us and the staff did well to keep sharing platters coming out fast. I really loved this tapas style food. The sweet corn was amazing. In fact there was plenty of vegetarian very tasty vegetarian options which I really enjoyed so a good spot to bring those mates of yours who don't partake in carnivorous activity. For those of us that do the lamb ribs were absolutely delicious. They also had plenty of heaters to keep the chill out of the air. Over all a very enjoyable experience.
What a fabulous find for a pre theatre drink and snack in a cracker venue. I went G and T with a chicken cheese and chilli delicious toastie. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Great casual dining venue with a delicious menu. Large portion sizes. Espresso Martini was on point and a great way to kick start the evening. Great service and very affordable
Rooftop menu has a good selection of cocktails, mocktails, craft beers and tap. Limited tapas menu, but enough to be satisfying. Does require googling quite a few words if you don't speak Spanish or well versed in cheeses.
Freekah and cabbage salad, $8, was excellent.
A nice and cozy roof top bar with a chill vibe.
Tapas are good portions as snacks. Drinks are somewhat reasonably priced. Staff were attentive.
Another lunch time favourite close to work. Been here a few times with the team and usually go for worker’s lunch. Great food at a great price!
In Summer, nothing beats a rooftop bar on a warm, balmy night and Melbourne has plenty to choose from. Bomba at the top end of town is one of my faves. It's only a small space, and finding a seat can be tricky, but with great views, tasty drinks and delicious Spanish bar snacks, it's not a bad way to pass a few hours.
On this night we had Patatas Bravas, the crispy, golden potatoes topped with a delicious tomato sauce; the yummiest empenada, and the mouth watering jamon bikini... a great Spanish spin on the toastie. With some chilled wine and beers, this was a lovely way to spend the night.
Service is at the centally located bar, and is both efficient and friendly enough to keep us coming back.
Really wonderful atmosphere at night, and ambience.
The taps was amazing, each dish is well thought out and unique.
We took interstate guests who thoroughly enjoyed it.
Have a really great evening there. Was celebrating my wedding anniversary with my partner. The atmosphere on the rooftop is great! Fresh air, good drink, food and services! Really like the grilled lamb ribs. Amazing soft meat and full of lovely flavor. Good place for catchup!
I haven’t been here for a while so my partner and I dropped in here for s drink. The service is good and friendly.
The views are great and the punters friendly. I ordered a Solar Flare XXPA beer which I haven’t seen before and it was pretty tasty. It was a bit hoppy, not too sour like I was expecting.
My partner ordered a gin cocktail and it cane pre mixed in a perfume bottle to save time mixing them when things got busier later in the night! Yay!!! A bar that plans ahead! Woo hoo I’m definitely going back.
The Gin cocktail was delicious, and no perfume aftertaste hahaha
This place is good!
We ordered set menu- $65/pp. Great food & good portion (4/5 ⭐️).
We found it quiet interesting(?) that sourdough bread was part of the starters and fried potatoes were in the mains.
We underestimated the portion by looking at the first two rounds of dishes coming in!! We were so full!
We wished that desserts were included in the set menu. Anyway we ordered it and it was amazing!
Great ambiance as well, music was not too loud and service was friendly. I felt really comfortable eating there. Sparkling water was free.
Food here is great though on the pricier side, especially for some of the tapas which are priced individually. Drinks were fair but probably not to our liking. Service could have been less rushed especially when running through a menu style that’s a bit different to what most are used to.
A friend recommended this place so I booked it for my lil sisters birthday dinner and it was absolutely amazing! Had a great view, great food and cocktails, and the staff were so lovely! We ordered the first tapas menu (changed to cater to vegan) and it was SO DELICIOUS. Would love to go back and try the other tapas option soon!
$65 set menu - great food (4/5). I thought it was excellent value for the sheer amount of food and the variety. We also ordered extra bone marrow toast. Service was friendly and approachable and it’s a nice ambience.
From the team behind Añada, Bomba was born. Serving also tapas-style Spanish cuisine, Bomba felt a lot more casual. We ordered the chargrilled quail, baked Hervey Bay scallops, Leek and Manchego croqueta, Crab, Lamb ribs, and a couple of desserts. None of the dishes disappointed us, but my favourites were the croqueta and Lamb ribs; the croqueta was so cheesily creamy on the inside with a thin crispy shell, and the Lamb ribs were very succulent. Despite being a very busy night, service was prompt and friendly.
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Dimly lit during night time, Bombabar was a good place to catch up with friends, bustling with laughter and loud conversation.
We had an early booking and started off with cocktails, which were delicious, refreshing, and hard to fault. The red wine sangria was too easy to drink with just the right amount of sweetness and spice to purvey a great meal with friends.
Although some of the food was hit-and-miss, they were mostly delicious. The standouts for the montaditos were the “bone marrow, Wagyu cecina”, which was sweet and savoury at once --we’ll be dreaming of this for days to come! The “escalivada of eggplant, capsicum & shallot” had a smoky flavour we loved. Of the mains, the vegetarian dish was the star: we really loved the “cauliflower, saffron, paprika & sorrel,” which had a thin char enhanced by a creamy sauce. These went extremely well with the “heirloom tomato, burrata, pickled onions” verduras.
The bits we didn’t like were the “paella of barramundi, pipis, calamari, scampi” and the tapas of “charcoal grilled pork belly, Pedro Ximenez, apple, fennel chicharrones”. Although they cooked the seafood well, I didn’t get as much flavour in the rice; we would have picked another dish from the raciones instead. As for the pork, I couldn’t get a hint of the sherry, apple, or fennel. It tasted a lot like other, middling pork belly in Melbourne. The "patatas bravas" were too salty but filled us up nicely.
The staff seated us quickly and the time between tapas and the mains was long enough for hearty conversation. Our server was attentive and efficient --our drink orders arrived quickly, too, and kept us occupied for the wait for paella, which was well within the expected 30 minutes. There are no specials here, but the server explained the menu clearly, and kept our water glasses full.
In all, we had a wonderful experience, and our only regret was the pricey but not impressive paella. This is a bustling bar with delicious cocktails and good food, lively for a night of catching up, and would be a great choice while on this end of Lonsdale St.
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🧀 Ricotta Chive Montadito, Goats Cheese and Garlic Croquette, 7+ Score De Palma Wagyu Cecina
🐙 WA Octopus, Eggplant, Charcoal Grilled Pork Belly
🥔 Lamb Chillindron, Moreton Bay Bug, Potatoes, Grilled Asparagus
🍫 Churros
Bomba Restaurant and Rooftop has been a front runner for Spanish food in Melbourne for years and have recently undergone a million dollar renovation. It is unpretentious and cosy, with intimate seating and moody lighting downstairs, and amazing views of the city from the rooftop terrace upstairs. 🏙
The restaurant menu is tapas style designed to be shared. At the time of dining they were only doing two set menu options $65 or $85 however their A La Carte menu is now back on offer. As I had a @payo_australia voucher to spend we went with the $85 which had 10 dishes. 🇪🇸
Their Garlic and Chive Croquettes were some of the softest and lightest I’ve ever had and the Octopus had that amazing, strong BBQ flavour to it. The Pork Belly was rendered well and complimented beautifully with the peperonata. The potatoes were super crispy and the additional churros with gooey chocolate sauce we ordered for dessert was perfection. 🍫
Unfortunately the Lamb was really fatty, the small pieces of meat we did get though tasted really nice. The Asparagus, Eggplant and Moreton Bay bugs were quite average.
The 10 dishes averaged at around $17 each which in the end seemed abit pricey considering they were all very small. I think the value could have been improved by even just including dessert. My score may have been higher if it wasn’t a set menu because there were some dishes on there i wouldn’t have ordered. I would definitely return again for the A La Carte or to check out the rooftop snack menu.
⭐️ 4/5 (Great)
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