Izakaya Den
Jun 20 2010
Category: CBD, Dinner, Japanese, Lunch, Small plates
The pork belly (background) and eggplant (foreground): two dishes on offer at Izakaya Den
SOMETIME IN THE LATE 1980s
Little Tubbymistress is sitting on the carpet in her primary school classroom, cross-legged, petite and shy. Despite her small stature – and a brain that has never loved processing numbers – she has no hesitation belting out the 10 times table with three other children in her class, harmonising in the monotone, singsong way that primary school children do.
As she sang, Little Tubbymistress could not know that basis mathematics (and a lack of research) would be her undoing some twenty years later. In May 2010, a section of Russell St became a catwalk for the hungry and navigationally challenged, as three Melburnians searched in vain for one elusive number.
LITTLE TUBBYMISTRESS (sings earnestly): Fifteen 10s are … hun-dred and fiff-ty!
Izakaya DenBasement, 150 Russell St, Melbourne VIC
www.izakayaden.com.au