So, it’s a little over a week until my birth­day and fizit’s birth­day (Janu­ary 22). (kitling is Janu­ary 23, for those who’ve for­got­ten this tri­um­vir­ate of delect­able devilry).

Some of you prob­ably know that I’m a weird polit­ical eater: I’m not a veget­arian, I’m not even a pesce-veget­arian (fish and veg eater). I eat wild stuff and indi­gen­ous stuff. I won’t go into it in detail. Suf­fice to say Jess and I came up with a plan a while ago for a birth­day dinner of indi­gen­ous fare – kangaroo steaks, wallaby medal­lions, possum osso bucco and bush veget­ables galore. So, we’re head­ing for Flamin’ Bull, 121 Lygon St, Carlton, Vic (menu at the web site; it’s not cheap but it’s damn good). From memory, there are a couple of vego dishes they do (the site says there’s a ‘veget­arian spe­cial of the day’), but tell me in advance if you’re veget­arian and I’ll ask them for a couple of spe­cial dishes if we have a crit­ical mass.

Even if you don’t know any of us well, feel free to RSVP and show up. I’m happy for this to be a very big outing where I get to meet new friends too. I’ll prob­ably invite a smal­ler group back to mine for afters so the dinner is the big public thang. I do need num­bers though, so reply here or mail me…

WHEN: Sat­urday, Janu­ary 22
TIME: Dinner time (oops, haven’t dis­cussed it with Jess)
WHERE: Flamin’ Bull Indi­gen­ous Restaurant
ADDRESS: 121 Lygon St, Carlton

Hope to see you there!