David’s Restaurant

David’s Restaurant – nourishing food to nourish the soul In Cecil Place Prahran lives David’s Restaurant, the place to feed your mind, body and soul. Chinese herbalist and tea merchant restaurateur David Zhou together with chef Jeffery Xiao opened a restaurant that responded to customer’s demands – serving authentic Shanghai cuisine coupled with nourishing herbal ingredients. Inside, the split-level restaurant is spacious and modern, delivering a warm and intimate ambience, waiters are smartly dressed in dark attire, and tables are widely spaced representing anything but a crowded Chinese eatery. A regular recipient of the One Chef’s Hat by the Age Good Food Guide since 2000, David’s authentic and innovative Chinese cuisine is every bit deserving of this reward as shown in its anything but brief menu. A range of three banquets are available for a minimum of two people ($39-$59 per head), serving tasty delicacies including Lobster San Choi Bao, Peking Duck served in a homemade pancake and Golden Almond Pudding. There is a selection of eight traditional tonic soups that not only nourish the system, but with each one serving a unique purpose – the Double Boiled Pigeon Soup ($11.50) alleviating dry skin; the Double Boiled Duck Meat Soup ($11.50) enhancing vitality and libido; and a traditional Shanghai Hot and Sour Seafood Soup ($8.50) to stimulate digestion. It is mandatory to try both the Peking Duck Supreme and the Shanghai ‘Eight Treasure’ Duck – this is the Chinese equivalent of Japanese Wagyu. If you don’t have the opportunity of eating the renowned Peking Duck at Melbourne’s Flower Drum as the restaurant is almost always booked out, David’s Restaurant is (if I dare not say) on par. You may not have your waiter carving the specialty duck at your table and serving it with white gloves, but David’s Peking Duck Supreme comes already beautifully presented in six or 12 pieces ($30; $57) with the option of ordering additional pieces for $5. The duck is carefully sliced and wrapped in a homemade pancake with cucumber, spring onion and their special plum sauce – superbly delicious! As for the Shanghai ‘Eight Treasure’ Duck ($78) an advance order is required and is a generous serve for four people. A steamed whole duck is stuffed with sticky rice, lotus seed, straw mushroom, shitake mushroom, smoked ham, Chinese sausage, red date and dried shrimps. The ingredients are definitely impressive and far from overpowering; providing the right balance for a delectable dish that is truly representative of Shanghai cuisine. With over 27 entrée’s and a wide selection of fresh homemade dim sim, as well as in excess of dozens of seafood, fish, red meat, poultry, vegetarian and noodle and rice dishes to choose from, David’s will please even the most discerning. Wine connoisseurs will be far from disappointed with a comprehensive wine list available by the glass and bottle. Yum Cha is also an institution at David’s and is served daily! Review by Monica | OnlyMelbourne Review Team Open: -:- Monday-Friday 12-3pm; Saturday-Sunday 11.30am-3pm -:- Sunday-Thursday 6-10.30pm; Friday-Saturday 6-11.30pm Wine: Fully licensed. $10 corkage per bottle. Dishes: Entrees $5-$9.50, mains $13.50-$78, desserts $6-$10

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David’s Restaurant

 4 Cecil Place,  Prahran Victoria  Australia.  View Map
 Telephone: 9529 5199

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