Prince Dining Room
It’s goodbye fine dining, hello fun dining down at The Prince Hotel in St Kilda.
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2 Acland St, St Kilda
(03) 9536 1122
It’s goodbye fine dining, hello fun dining down at The Prince Hotel in St Kilda.
Stepping out of the high-end, pinky-up shadow of Circa, the new Prince Dining Room is a casual and comfortable offering with banquette seating snaking through the centre of the Art Deco main room.
Two Dans in the kitchen (exec chef Dan Hawkins and day-to-day head Dan Cooper) talk all the trends – sustainable, low-waste, seasonal, traceable happy produce – but they back it up with a well-priced menu strongly weighted to the plant kingdom.
Three seriously good flatbreads are on offer but don’t miss the fiocco (a prosciutto-like salumi) teamed with fresh mozzarella and purple and green basil on a chewy and charry base with an airy, bubbly crust.
A lamb tagine, generous with meat and sticky with plump prunes, is served with smoked yoghurt, minty tabbouleh, and puffy pita topped with nigella seeds.
Come summer, you might find a fabulously sunny plate of grilled nectarines served with peppery mustard leaf, juicy sharp radish and manchego cheese.
Equally vibrant, a rainbow of roasted beetroot teamed with segments of pink-tinged orange with aniseed adding a cool breeze.
Leave the car – for the cellar is filled with interesting, well-priced drinking – and some space for sweets, for an individual woodfired cheesecake topped with roasted peaches and gingersnap crumb is a deft delight.
Must-eat dish: Fiocco flatbread
Cuisine: Contemporary
Chefs: Dan Hawkins, Dan Cooper
Price: $$
Open: Lunch Thurs-Sun; breakfast & dinner daily
Mon-Wed Breakfast 7-11am; dinner 5-10pm
Thurs-Sun Breakfast, lunch, dinner 7am-10pm
Bookings: Yes
BYO: No
Instagram: @theprincehotel