Walk too fast and you will miss it. Well Connected is well hidden amongst the eateries on Glebe Point road, but is well worth stopping in for a filling bite to eat at a very reasonable price. It is difficult to pick out a distinct theme that the chefs are trying to pull off, but this eclectic mix offers a range of cuisines to suit every patron, from the finicky mathematics student to the liberal arts major.
This establishment is the walk in, sit anywhere and wait for a menu from the always-busy wait staff kind of place. Each time I have dined here it has been packed with students and those who probably wish they still were. The diner style chairs are comfy from the placement of generations of intellectual bottoms and the tables are suitably retro. The atmosphere is buzzy to say the least, with any number of enthusiastic intellectual conversations going on around us, but it isn’t loud thanks to the space being relatively small and filled with artworks.
The menus are provided promptly and we order coffees, which are brought out just in time for us to place our food orders. A must for anyone dining here is the fetta and garlic pressed tortillas. They won’t do much for you on a romantic date, but they are a delicious starter for anyone craving cheesy carbs after a long day of study. My friend orders the chicken and mushroom linguine with a chilli and arabiatta sauce and I order the Asian beef salad with a black sesame dressing. There are daily special to choose from, but the menu items are so morish that the chalkboard hardly gets a look in.
My meal arrives a good ten minutes before my friends, which I am none to fond of as we are then both required to stare at it until hers arrives, while we argue over whether I should start without her. It looks and smells delicious. The beef is medium rare and in thin jagged slivers, which makes a delightful change from the symmetrical slices I have come to expect from most meat salads. It is nicely dressed and garnished with the black sesame seeds. The flavours are well balanced between salty, sweet and sour which compliment the char grilled taste of the beef.
My friend’s meal I have had before and have enjoyed, but this time the sauce seems both overly sticky and at the same time oily. The mushrooms are practically transparent and it would be totally overdoing it to even attempt to add Parmesan. Thankfully we are both starving students so it goes down well regardless, but there are no points to be had for presentation.
We opt out of dessert as the selection of standard cakes seem fairly average, but we do order coffees to go as the beans they use are of the better variety and the barista is competent. The bill comes in at just over $46, which for the location, serving sizes and quality of the food is very reasonable.
Well Connected is open from 7:30am to 10pm Monday to Thursday, Later on Friday and Saturday and from 8am to 10pm Sundays.
Ph: (02) 9566 2655
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