THE SLIMMER TWINS

Rip It Up, Issue 211, 1 March 1995, Page 7

THE SLIMMER TWINS

Diner, Service Station & Takeaway Cuisine Rock ‘n’ Roll and food have always been constant companions; \ Luther Vandross has lost 120 pounds — nine times!, Elvis swallowed burgers and pizza whole, and Mama Cass loved those steak sandwiches to death. In the first instalment of a regular dining out column, RipltUp’s digestive duo, The Slimmer Twins, waddle their merry way round the finest (and well priced) eating establishments, without even stopping to mop the gravy from their chins. So sit back, undo your trouser buttons, and feel those arteries harden. < City Express. 9 Customs Street, . . central Auckland. Open 24 hrs. Almost every time we’ve dined at this place the Commodores Greatest Hits has 7 been playing. As if that wasn’t enough, the staff serve portions so huge you can’t even see your plate! A variety of meals incorporating eggs and chips are on offer, but the Slimmer™ choice involves bacon so fresh it literally oinks from the plate. Huge slabs of this delicacy are presented smothered in impossibly yellow fried eggs, and garnished with an avalanche of crispy fried chips ($5.95). Sure, lentil-soakers will tell you this style, of dining will shorten your lifespan, but then so will vegetables — look what they did for River Phoenix. The Original Baron Of Beef. United Tower, 125 Queen Street, central Auckland. “Pleased to meet you, with meat to please you”, soothes the Baron, and you know you’ve found a second home. The Baron offers an endless choice of prime cuts from the bone, featuring beef, lamb (with mint sauce!) and pork (with crackling and apple sauce!). Full ($9.95) or half ($5.95) portions are served with steaming peas, crunchy roast potatoes, bright orange carrots and pumpkin. It’s pork and spicy gravy on the Twins plate more often than not, but not for long, and if you need further convincing — one visit to the Baron and you’ll let go a burp that could strip the bark off a tree. Other notables: Stables Restaurant. Cnr Fort & Gore Streets, central . Auckland. Open 24 hrs; $5 breakfast: Bacon, sausages, hash browns, fried eggs, white bread toast, tea or coffee (brown bread is available for those with a taste for the exotic). Tony’s Original Steak Restaurant. 27 Wellesley Street, central Auckland. $lO lunch special': Steak, chips and a pint. Bloody marvellous! Holly’s Home Cookery. Main Rd, Paroa. It’s the Chinese Year of the Pie, and for a heavenly chicken pie don’t drive by Holly’s Home Cookery, main road Paeroa, 200 yards before the big bottle driving South.