With premixed classic cocktails already in the can, Continental has made a smooth switch to a takeaway gig. Add in its fetching bistro and deli fare and you've got the makings of a great night in.
Who?
Continental CBD, the city-slicker sibling of the original Deli, Bar and Bistro in Newtown.
Why?
Continental’s reputation for delivering the goods was not built on the Mar-tinny alone, though that’s a very good place to start. Cracking food (and booze) has always been the cornerstone here.
Pick-up or delivery?
Both, from 10am to 8pm. Order via the Bopple app or Bopple online.
The lowdown
The rigatini with charcuterie and XO ‘carbonara’ (pictured above) makes the journey by delivery car with integrity fully intact – it arrives hot and ready to go, the house-made pasta pleasingly al dente and tossed in its punchy sauce. A version of the bistro’s spaghetti signature from less-sequestered times, this is a clever creation putting the offcuts from topnotch charcuterie from the deli – the likes of jamón Ibérico, culatello, wagyu bresaola – to admirable use in a house version of XO sauce flecked with chilli and scented with star anise and cinnamon, and finished with garlic chives. The potato salad side sees creamy textured kipflers and slivers of celery generously coated in sesame mayo and chives. Carbs-on-carbs naysayers can choose from a sprightly Greek salad and roasted carrots with honey yoghurt and sunflower seeds.
If you’re lucky, other sweet-toothed punters won’t have beaten you to the Neapoli-tin – ice-cream like it says on the tin with banana, black sesame and caramel.
Something to drink?
The famed punning canned cocktails – the Can-hattan, the Ameri-can-o and the all-conquering Mar-tinny, among others – a clutch of smart food-friendly wines, beer and cider.
Price
Sandwiches, all lavishly spread with Pepe Saya butter, start at $13, for the Comté cheese, salad and pickle, and top out at $20, for the hard-to-beat pork meatball sandwich with sugo and Parmigiano.
Charcuterie and cheese plates are $25. The bistro dishes range from $18 for half a roast chicken cacciatore with white polenta to $36 for the whole chook with pastas and risotto $22 to $24. Sides come in at $12.
Order up
The Newtown HQ adds groceries to this stellar offering – Flour! Rice! – along with Continental’s canned soups, fancy European tinned fish and LP’s sausages.
Where?
Continental CBD, 167 Phillip St, Sydney, (02) 8624 3131
Continental Deli, Bar and Bistro, 210 Australia St, Newtown, (02) 8624 3131
continentaldelicatessen.com.au
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