Spiga is in the “laneways” section of Melbourne Central – kind of indoors, kind of outdoors. Nice atmosphere, good service, food was ok. Yes, just ok. Not an amazingly extensive menu with pastas, pizzas, salads, risottos and meat dishes (gluten free available for all) but enough choice to suit most people. The meals sounded a lot more interesting on the menu than what they actually ended up being, for example, “Grilled Yellow Fin tuna on a salad of dried tomato, baby beans, olives, crispy potatoes and lemon dressing” sounds great, yes? What came out was okay, but it was missing a key ingredient – potatoes!
“Orecchiette Primavera – Ear shaped pasta with Spiga dried tomato, red peppers, broccolini, baby spinach and pine nuts” – yum sounds great! Result was actually penne, not “ear shaped pasta” (maybe they only had GF penne) and hardly any of the veggies mentioned. It was also a really small serve of pasta, a bit tight when you’re charging $20 for packet pasta.
Overall Spiga was nice, but over-priced for what you get. For more details you can check out their website.
2 Menzies Alley, Melbourne – enter via 360 Elizabeth St
oh yeh.. I forgot about my missing ‘crispy potatoes’… bastards!
Yeh it was a shame coz the pasta WAS yummy – just not enough
I have to disagree with you, I regularly eat at Spiga and find they have a great gluten free menu and is one place I have never been sick from…Spiga’s gluten free pizza’s are the best in Melbourne and I find they always have a great range of deserts (so much more than another flourless cake) The staff are always great and willing to modify all dishes (which is helpful because I also cannot eat fructose as well as gluten)