Quick Fixe Pre-Theatre Express Dinner Set — Saadi

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Quick Fixe is all in the name. A quick meal, a couple of satisfying courses, and a set price. Perfect for when you’ve got somewhere to be like the theatre, a show or a movie.

Our current Quick Fixe menu begins with chickpea fritters topped with green tomato chutney, braised green tartlets and school prawns sprinkled with dehydrated lasun chutney. BBQ pork jowl and twice-cooked pumpkin follows, alongside fermented chilli flatbread bathed in garlic butter.

For those with dietaries, we’ll take care of you. Just leave us a note when you book.

Quick Fixe Dinner

Seatings available until 6.15pm | 2 courses, 6 plates, $50pp

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This could be you, Tuesdays to Saturdays from 5pm.

Book via the link in our bio, or roll the dice by walking in. We will always try to fit you in.

Quick Fixe is all in the name. A quick meal, a couple of satisfying courses, and a set price. Perfect for when you’ve got somewhere to be.

Out and about for @rising.melbourne? Catching a show at the Princess, Regent or Her Majesty’s Thea

Indian Chook Shop by SAADI x Avani (@avaniwines)

Only a few seats left for our Indian Chook Shop. We are opening at 4pm, so there are early seats available on the Saturday.

Expect juicy, crisp-skinned bird with spiced potatoes and salad, plus snac

Achappam (rose cookie) with fig jam, brown butter sorbet and coconut mousse

This crunchy, flower-shaped biscuit is found all over Kerala, South India — and now, right here on Punch Lane. Crack the cookie with the back of your spoon and dig all

Grilled masala celeriac, Mt. Zero dal bhorta

The star of this dish is the dal bhorta, which means mashed lentils. Traditionally, dal bhorta is served quite dry, but we prepare our @mountzero Persian lentils quite loose with mustard oil, onion, garli

Steamed barramundi, roasted bullhorn pepper kasundi

We’ve finally nailed our kasundi recipe after years of recipe testing.

Kasundi is a mustard-based condiment from West Bengal in eastern India, traditionally paired with fish. In a way, serv

Kothambir vadi

Our autumn menu begins with two snacks. You’ve seen our tartlet, now it’s time to get acquainted with the kothambir vadi; our version of a panisse.

The base is made from chickpea flour, flavoured and flash-fried to create

Goolwa pippies opened directly over charcoal, flooded with tart and savoury vevichathu. Served with uttappam (fermented rice pancakes) to mop everything up.

Best eaten with your hands.

Book via the link in our bio. Walk-ins are always welcome.

Sunchokes papad, pickled tomatillos, coriander chutney

One of our favourite Indian street food is masala papad. This is our version.

To make the papad (cracker), we steam, blitz, dehydrate and fry @days_walk_farm sunchokes. It took us three weeks t

BBQ pork jowl, inji pulli + Non Negroni

Pork jowl is gently braised, pressed overnight, glossed with an inji pulli condiment of ginger and tamarind and finished on the barbecue.

Pair it with our alcohol-free negroni made with our strawberry and ja

Big news! We are now opening Tuesdays.

Join us for dinner any Tuesday from May 12.

See you soon!

Bookings via the link in our bio.

Goolwa pippies vevichathu

South Australian Goolwa pippies are cooked directly over the wood-fired grill and served over a sauce soured with one of our new favourite ingredients: kudampuli. There is no direct translation for what this fruit is, but i

We are obsessed with the chioggia pumpkins from @days_walk_farms. Every autumn, they get better and better, but they’re only available for a month or two.

We brush it with plum and coriander ferment, steam-bake, crumb and fry them to order an

Achappam — rose cookie, fig jam, brown butter sorbet, coconut mousse

Achappams are crunchy, flower-shaped biscuits, which is how they get their name. Crack the cookie with the back of your spoon and make sure you scoop all the way to the botto

18 Punch Lane, Melbourne 3000

Princess Theatre → 150m

Her Majesty’s Theatre → 250m

The Regent Theatre → 300m

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Tuesday- Saturday
5pm-10pm

info@saadimelbourne.com
+61 (3) 9654 8190

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Saadi acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the Country throughout Australia. We recognise that we live, work and dine on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

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