Vero Bistro has been on our list of must do restaurants for a while - and only because we were waiting to be able to go on a Tuesday. Both of us were intrigued by 'no menu' Tuesday, and we were not disappointed.
We had choice of 2 salads - one with lentils and the other with confit duck. Each tried one and the duck was a clear winner. Think this may be the best duck I have ever tried. Would have eaten that salad another 2 times and gone home happy.
Mains was a choice of 3 options. I went with the short rib over potato + sweet potato gnochi - one of those portions where you think it will be just enough, but you get 1/2 way thought and have to stop because otherwise you wont have space for dessert. The boy had veal in these hand shaped triangle pasta pockets with ragu over top. Both were delightful and such different flavour profiles.
For dessert is was meant to be a coconut cake, but as they ran out it was changed to whipped cheesecake with passion fruit (I think) topping and oat-crisp type bits. I have to admit I was disappointed not to try the cake... until I tried the cheesecake. Oh man whipped cheesecake for the win!
Service was fantastic. James was lovely and attentive, but gave us more than enough space to take our time to enjoy the meal and each other. He also took me through the menu 3 times because I kept getting distracted by how fantastic all the options sounded :)
We will be back, on a Tuesday or otherwise. Have you seen the pictures of their brunch though? Maybe we will be back for that!