Best pub food on the planet. Great staff. Great atmosphere. Great rum bar upstairs. Great great great. I'd stay permanently but they keep making me go home.
The phattest pub in the inner city... The Cauliflower's a typical suburban pub in Waterloo. The food is average pub food. What makes the Cauliflower stand out is good live music on weekends - really good soul singers and similar. The pub is rarely full but it's always a good vibe on music nights and the staff party as hard as the customers. The other really notable thing is how big most of the customers and performers are...
Swung by after work to check out the upstairs rooftop bar area. Being quiet midweek, there is time for the friendly bar (and kitchen) staff to chat. The Cauli have a southern american mexi fusion menu going on. With the chef hailing straight from the motherland, you'll find tacos, a few varieties of wings, burgers, jerk chicken, and if as lucky as we were, the double beef burger special.
Only $4 more than their usual burger, it stood taller than a schooner of beer with real fried onion rings, bacon and two medium cooked patties. The fries drizzled it sriracha, cheese sauce and ranch dressing. as expected, practicality is out the window and its a little hard to eat, that aside, it nails every character needed with the flavour and textures, despite the difficulty in handling.
The pork ribs don't quite fall off the bone but are tender enough to make it so much easier to eat than the burger. They are large in serving, with two lathered racks layered proudly. The sauce is mildly sticky, insanely sweet, with a hint of smoke. It's not a complex sauce but it remains a better example of what a number of other venues in Sydney think is worthy of serving up when it comes to pork ribs.
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