Can you believe I’ve not made a Cumulus Inc post before this? Even though it’s my favourite accessible restaurant in Melbourne? Wow. I guess I finally found the time to do so, though yes, at the expense of some other stuff. I’m meant to be doing more food prep at the moment, but I know that if I don’t get all these posts out before the new year, they’re going to get forgotten like all the other times that I’ve gone to Melbourne and never posted about it. So I’m trying really, really hard!

A tiny little beef tartare on a thin crunchy toast thing. Delicious!

While I usually take the oyster option, today’s special was too good to pass up. These were Cloudy Bay clams, lightly steamed and dressed with sea urchin emulsion. They were really pricey at $12 per clam, but totally worth it – the clams were huge and it was a great change from oysters! A rare find that was absolutely delicious!

While this was not super interesting, it was their special – Meatsmith Christmas ham, so I took it. Since I’m writing this after my holiday, I can say that while it was nice, it wasn’t as tasty as the Fat Pig Farm ham that I bought. But now I know!

FISH SPECIAL!!! WHOLE FLOUNDER IN HERB BUTTER!! WITH SALTBUSH!

Woah. I still have a very strong memory of being very impressed with the flathead special the very first time I visited this place, so I keep ordering the fish here. It’s actually a whole flounder! The only reason why I say that is because at Embla, the whole flounder came headless…. The herb butter wasn’t as good as whatever garnish the flathead had ages ago, but it was still nice, and I love saltbush.

I was really full at this point – I took my dance partner to this place and ordered enough food for 1.5 people, but I ended up eating about 1.3 people’s worth… I made him eat some of the flounder though. I was also trying to do the skillful thing of taking the top half off, and then removing the bone in one piece. What I didn’t expect, was a belly full of roe! Wow, lucky lady, both she and I! Though mainly me, because I got to enjoy it. My dance partner was all like, “just flip it upside down” but of course, for the show of finesse, and Asian tradition says that filleting then removing the bone whole is the only way to do it. Even the waitress complimented me afterwards haha!

While I knew that adult flounder have both eyes on the top of their head, their cheeks are still on the sides, so top and bottom. My dance partner thought I was eating the eyeball! No, I don’t like eyeballs unless Mr. Niland does them.

So even though I was full… there’s always room for dessert. This super light green apple sorbet with sheep’s milk yoghurt and meringue totally hit the spot. It was light enough that I didn’t feel like I was stuffing myself further.

I always love coming to Cumulus Inc, it really is my favourite all rounder restaurant. I love it so much.

Edit: I found my original visit”s photos already uploaded for this blog. So here it finally is: https://www.raining-chaos.net/blog/?p=4170