The restaurant's only signage
Smith Street in Fitzroy is not a place that you would normally find the Range Rover driving folks of the other side of the river, but it is exactly where they are flocking (albeit a little nervously), for an amazing little restaurant by the name of Gigibaba. It's hard to find, with only a simple A4 piece of paper as its signage and its flexible approach to when it opens. My dear friend, Diane, and I have tried several times to eat there but never seem to be there when they are open, so we arrived nice and early on Sunday night to bag the window table. The much anticipated wait was definitely worth it - the food was brilliant, the wine was wonderful, the service was fantastic and the company, as always, was good fun. A highlight of the evening was the fact that we didn't even have to order, we simply told our lovely waitress how hungry we were and out came the food. The night rounded out with a second bottle of wine at Cutler and Co., another popular restaurant with a 3 month waiting list. I can certainly say that if I were a Range Rover driver from Toorak, I would be venturing across the river for the Gigibaba experience on a regular basis.
First in line .... we wanted the window table!
Oysters
Cauliflower salad ... my favourite dish of the night
Fish
Orange salad
Lamb sausages
Clams in a pea broth
Beetroot salad
Pistachio baklava
Turkish coffee
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