Now you wouldn't think Werribee would be the most obvious location for a nice gastropub but such is the case with the Park Hotel. I've said this before: M is generally reluctant to go out west and Werribee is about as far west as you get in the Melbourne metro area.
Nonetheless, both he and I were pleasantly surprised by the quality offered at the Park Hotel. There were plenty of young people and students there as it was trivia night and the demographics weren't exactly what we had expected for a pub in Werribee. The food was really quite good, especially the pork belly which was very well cooked, perfectly rendered and soft with very crispy skin which the chef had done a great job at flattening, making the skin evenly crispy without it being puffy. The flavour was also excellent. For $12 for three very generous pieces of pork belly, it was ridiculously good value. The corn and bean salsa it sat atop, however, was less spectacular and we barely touched it after devouring the pork. The sliders were OK; the meat was sandwiched between my mortal burger enemy: brioche buns. The beef filling was not terrible but not super flavoursome either.
All in all, if we're ever in the area we would definitely come back and try some of their other dishes and maybe even try our hand at besting the locals at trivia.
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