Snack Bar: Next-Level Chicken Shops, Chotto Is Back for One Night and More Local Food News This Week

What’s happening around town

• The gelato pros at Pidapipo have teamed up with beloved bakery Bread Club on a next-level bread and butter pudding, available until Sunday August 3. Pick up the make-at-home dessert, which takes Bread Club’s saffron and vanilla scrolls and marries them with a tub of saffron gelato from Pidapipo, from any Pidapipo store. Or stop by the flagship Fitzroy Laboratorio for an eat-in version of the special for $15.

• Stop by Hot-Listed Gertrude Street coffee shop Calere on Tuesday July 29 and Wednesday July 30 from 10am to 3pm for a dessert pop-up. Gaea and Chiaki chef Mo Zhou and Yugen Tea Bar ’s Jasper Chui will make six desserts inspired by Japanese teas. Each dessert is $7 to $15 each and available for walk-ins only.

• Sachi pop-up founder Reki Reinantha has brought back his Balinese lockdown pop-up Jaen Jumah. Running Thursdays to Saturdays from midday to 3pm and 5.30pm to 9pm and Sundays from midday to 3pm, the pop-up will serve a small three-item menu of babi guling (roast pork), ayam betutu (spiced chicken) and pepes tahu (steamed tofu in banana leaf) at 380 Russell Street, Melbourne.

• Andrew McConnell’s CBD cocktail bar Apollo Inn is collaborating with Caryn and Brendan Liew of now-closed Fitzroy spot Chotto this Sunday July 27 from 3pm until late. Drop in for Japanese Slippers and Highballs from the Apollo Inn team and izakaya-style snacks from the Liews.

Dine Out

• There are just 15 serves a night of this Dodee Paidang Dine Out special.

• Get Peruvian Chinese food by Farmer’s Daughter’s Alejandro Saravia and Moonhouse for one day only.

What we covered this week

• Con Christopolous’s latest marries the Aussie pub with French and English culinary influences.

• First look: get expert Cantonese roast duck at Phoenix Kitchen in the CBD.

• First look: Sebby’s Scrolls rolls into St Kilda.

• I can’t stop thinking about: Marmelo’s pudim abade de priscos dessert.

• Where chefs eat: the chilli cheese twist Vue De Monde’s Hugh Allen loves.

• Six next-level chicken shops to try.

• New hire: Nick McGonigal brings three-Michelin-star cred to the ’Ninch.

• Greek food looks different at South Melbourne’s Aegli.

• The Via Porta team comes to Ivanhoe with new bakery-cafe Lucci.

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