![]() Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morningįirst up are beef tartare and gamberetti. (One of the staff, Ben, tells me Nigella was given a similar spot.) Even before we sit down, the Icebergs team is already across my order – it’s Nigella’s exact order – so all we have to do is sit back and drink in the sunlight. They’ve seated me and my lunch friend, Rio, at a table next to the glass doors of the balcony. ![]() ![]() Still, the view is as stunning as you’d expect. I think this may be because – while the food is delicious and looks sexy – Icebergs occupies that juncture of “modern Australian dining” which mostly just means “Italian”, and I don’t really need to go to Bondi for that. On Instagram, Nigella wrote, “Are you even in Sydney if you don’t go to Despite living in Sydney all my life, it’s my first time eating at this Bondi institution for beautiful people. ‘It’s my first time eating at this Bondi institution’: the before and after of the kangaroo ragù and beer-battered dory and chips, with Ann’s dining companion, Rio. Noon: lunch at Icebergs Dining Room and Bar, Bondi, $172 (drinks not included) The flavours are surprising in their contrasts: the apples are assertive in their sweetness, the sauce is herbaceous and grassy – even a little medicinal thanks to tarragon’s anise edge combined with the caraway and gently bitter radicchio. The sandwich is a festival of textures – melting pork fat and yielding meat with caramel-gold edges, squishy cooked fruit, crunchy-yet-tender leaves, and the robust, crusty panini holding it all together. It’s no meatball sandwich but it’s saucy and maximalist in a way I think Nigella would have gravitated towards. Unluckily for me, I’ve missed them by just three or four days, so instead we order the porchetta with caraway-roasted apples, radicchio and tarragon sauce on a panini. ![]() The meatballs stayed on the menu for three weeks longer than usual, too, as Nigella fans made their pilgrimages. “Luckily, we had them back on! We’d just put them back on the menu as a special,” Van Loon says. Small’s Deli in Potts Point, home to the meatball sandwich – a much-loved order for Nigella Lawson. ![]()
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