Fight night Demons Steven May and Jake Melksham still welcome at Entrecote

Entrecote owner Jason Jones says AFL players are still welcome at the hottest restaurant in town despite the Dees fight night antics.

Steven May and Jake Melksham are welcome back at Entrecote. Picture: Getty Images

Entrecote was the hottest restaurant in Melbourne long before some brawling Demons put them in the news.

But far from letting the fight night turn him off AFL players altogether owner Jason Jones is extending an olive branch.

Mr Jones said the burly boofheads — our words not his — were welcome back, even Steven May and Jake Melksham.

“It’s been odd really,” he said.

“They were in a private dining room then it spilled out to the front of the restaurant. But they have apologised and we accept their apology.”

Before May and Melksham went bump in the night the man known around the traps as the wonderfully flamboyant Mr Jones was credited with bringing the “caviar bump” to our fair city.

Entrecote owner Jason Jones has accepted an apology from Dees Steven May and Jake Melksham. Picture: Michael Klein

Melksham would have been wise to choose the caviar bump instead of the real thing. Picture: Getty Images

Just this week the New York Times was waxing the caviar bump was the hottest hospo trend currently sweeping the Big Apple.

But Mr Jones was well before the pack, serving the decadent dish on his caviar trolleys at his flagship Greville St restaurant.

For the uninitiated the “caviar bump” consists of a dollop of the pricey fish roe placed on the back of one’s hand between the thumb and index finger. The diner than licks (not snorts!) it, just as they would salt with a tequila shot. Mr Jones serves ice-cold vodka to cleanse it down with.

“People used to get high off of drugs,” a diner told the New York Times, as he crushed the fish eggs against the top of his mouth. “Now, we’re getting high off the food.”

Mr Jones said he was served his first caviar bump by the one and only Guy Savoy of the eponymous Guy Savoy restaurant in Paris 11 years ago.

“He said oh you have just come from Australia I have something for you and he gave me a caviar bump on my hand. It was the first time I had had it 11 years ago. I thought I really should do that in my restaurants one day,” Mr Jones said.

You might be pressed to get a bump. Mr Jones says tables are practically booked out until August.