Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Abercrombie, Broadway

The Abercrombie. For when too much deep-fried food is never enough (so basically all the time, right)?

Deep-fried Pizza anyone? Photo thanks to Flick Your Food

I'd been reading quite a lot about The Abercrombie (aka the former grungy Australia Hotel on Broadway) and their penchant for deep-frying just about anything - pizza, Golden Gaytimes, Macaroni and Cheese, Twinkies.  I'm sure if a lettuce sat idle for too long in The Abercrombie kitchen it'd get a turn in the deep-fryer too.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.



I'd be avoiding The Abercrombie for over a year now - just because I'd like to not put on any more weight that I already have since starting the blog. And then I though F#ck it...in for a penny, in for a pound! I'm not called Miss Piggy for nothing.  I rounded up a group of like-minded food bloggers and a group of converged on The Abercrombie to get our Deep-Fried on!


The thing I was most excited to try were the Deep-Fried Mac and Cheese Balls which I'm glad to say were as fantastic as I'd hoped they be.  Cheesy macaroni encased in a bread-crumb batter and deep-fried to within an inch of its life. Excellent. Oh, and there were Beef Nachos too, but they weren't deep fried so I wasn't interested in them. Really.


Another dish on my deep-fried wish list were the Hot Chips (crinkle cut thank you very much) served with gherkins, gravy and aioli.  I guess the gherkins are there as the token vegetable to help cut through all the grease - works for me. If I was eating this on my own I think I would've dumped the gravy and aoili all over the chips/gherkins just to see what it tasted like. Oh, the deep-fried Calamari served with garlic aioli was pretty nice too.


Somehow some more non deep-fried food found its way to our table. I admit that I ordered the Fish Taco and it was GREAT. Surprisingly the fish wasn't deep-fried, but a fresh piece of fish (and the lettuce on the Taco wasn't deep-fried either). The Cheese and Jalapeno Enchiladas were also delicious.  There were also hotdogs on offer, covered in a mound of chili beef and melted cheese ooze; and a few burgers that my camera refused to photograph (Fish Burger = awesome).

Photo thanks to Flick Your Food
And last, but not least, the dish that EVERYONE was here to try - the Deep-Fried Golden Gaytime.  It was fun and games trying to explain to the expats at our table what a Golden Gaytime was - they were urged to duck out to their local corner shop and try the real deal ASAP.

The batter of the ice-cream was basically the same as the batter on deep-fried ice cream at you local Chinese joint...so it was GOOD!  The ice-cream was pretty soft though and melted really quickly (not helped along by us all taking photos of aforementioned soft melty ice cream).

Photo thanks to Flick Your Food
The Abercrombie is fun night out. The pub is still pretty grungy, packed to the rafters on a Friday night and the courtyard is an asthmatics worst nightmare...smokers EVERYWHERE! Stay indoors, grab a big table and order up big. It's heaps of deep-fried fun. Burp.

The Abercrombie is at 100 Broadway (aka Parramatta Road or George Street depending on your view of the world). 

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34 comments:

  1. i hear ALL these wonderful things about the Abercrombie but it just looks like a standard old pub on the outside. I need to get off my high horse and go eat some deep fried goodness!

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    1. It's a pretty grungy old pub really - tho it has vastly improved since it's days of being "just a pub". It's not as pretty as The Carrington...but just as popular.

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  2. The Abercrombie is always good for a feed, especially at lunchtimes. I'm disappointed you didn't manage to score a deep-fried salad from the kitchen though! lol

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    1. I quite glad the salad missed the deep-fryer, for my arteries sake.

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  3. I've been here twice now... Think that's enough for a while ... All the deep fried goodness! Yum! Not great for the arteries though! Lol

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    1. Once is enough for me...I reckon I put on 10kgs that night; though I would return for the fish burger...it was lovely.

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  4. Goodness...deep fried pizza? The cafe in Menindee sells deep fried bacon which I always find amusing, maybe they are on to something!?

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    1. I didn't eat the deep-fried pizza - I think the people who did found it a little "too much" deep-fried. LOL.

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  5. Mmmm... deep fried goodness! Keen to check this place out.

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    1. May sure you have a spare day to detox afterwards...

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  6. Fuck I love this place. Reppin' the $10 uni student lunches yiewwww
    (#obnoxiousyoungster)

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    1. And you're SO slim too...you could eat there everyday (#grumpyoldfatlady).

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  7. ....argh you'd have to be under 25 yrs old to survive regular meals there. I think my 30yr old body will slowly become translucent like a saturated paper towel.

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    1. I think I can cross this off my "to eat" list now...for the sake of my well over 30 year old body.

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  8. This reminds me of the No Reservations episode when Bourdain goes to (I think) Ireland...

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    1. The food here is based loosely on the Scots tendency to deep-fry ANYTHING that stands still.

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  9. It was a wonderful night. I still don't know why they put pickles in the chips though...

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    1. I LOVED the pickles on the chips - they were my favourite thing asides from the M&C balls.

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  10. the deep fried pizza looks so heavy.. but still something id like to try one day! yumm i loved the golden gaytime!

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    1. The pizza slices were quite teeny, which is probably a blessing.

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  11. This is somewhere on my list of naughty places to go to.

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    1. LOL, you'll be "making friends" with salad afterwards Penny.

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  12. Mmmmm, I really have to check this place out! It's been on my list but it's a bit hard to get to for me :|

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    1. I hear you! There are SO many places I'll never get too as they're just too much effort from my house. The Abercrombie is just down the road from Central Station thoguh...so not too hard if you're on a train line.

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  13. zomg deep fried pizza! *dies*! im so glad you enjoyed the place otherwise im gonna have to take the blame haha!!

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    1. Yeah, you're safe! Tho I really wanted a drink in a bag...but didn't see them being served.

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  14. Oh I had deep fried pizza in Scotland, with deep fried white pudding as a side and a deep fried snickers dessert lol. All kinds of awesomeness!

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  15. It was a night of deep fried craziness! Thanks for organising! Had a blast!

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    1. No worries mate! So glad you could make it - it was lovely to meet you.

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  16. Deep fried Golden Gaytime...although the thought of this seems sickening, I would so eat it all!

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  17. wow real nice shots! omg so much deep fried foods, don't think i would be able to stomach all of that.

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