Hoo Hah Kitchen at Kooroora Hotel, Mt Buller

A really good, hearty feed!

After a few hours (trying) to be stylish skiing or boarding down the Mount Buller slopes, one does work up quite an appetite. Even if you're not falling over (er, I mean skiing), just withstanding the elements up on the mountain are taxing.. So it's just as well that you can refuel yourself without having to de-robe excessively- it really is straight out of the bindings, and into the dining (room) here at the Kooroora Hotel. 

 

Gotta love hoo hahs.

The hoo hah kitchen, within the Kooroora pub markets themselves as cooking up large homely meals for hungry skiiers, and our experience proved that they do live up to their own hype. 

Poutine!!

Yes indeedy, this Canadian masterpiece of chips, gravy and cheese is well and truly available here at the Hoo Hah kitchen: in this case, also supplemented with bacon (and we all know the famous saying from the film Jerry Maguire: “You had me at bacon”.. or was that “at ‘hello’”? … Well, it should have been bacon).

Poutine.. Looks innocent enough, but bacon, cheese and gravy lurk tastily underneath!

Go in for one, but get a cheesy, bacony bunch. Nice..

I’m led to believe that poutine originates from Montreal, that the cheese needs to be fresh cheddar cheese curds, and the gravy should really be Velouté (‘velvety’ sauce – really just a thickened stock with flour and butter).  Whether the chef follows such traditions or uses the ingredients available on hand does not really matter. What matters is the eating – and Ay Carumba this is good stuff. The stringy molten cheese, obviously drawn through the chips when the hot gravy was added, holds multiple chunks of bacon and chips together, so you just can’t help it that every time you pick up one chip you get a big mouthful that is hearty and rich– Oh Joy!!

If I can get the kitchen to myself for a weekend I think I might have a crack at making my own, and with the suggestion of my co-worker, maybe even cook up and chop some kransky’s into it too!!   Leave me a comment if you would like to come over and try some !!

The ‘bowl’ of lamb soup was – in the best way possible - more like a bucket of thick and chunky stew – excellent and so incredibly satisfying.  The flathead was well cooked – nice big pieces, and most importantly the batter was light and crispy – not much residual oil. With flathead being one of my personal favourite types of fish, I really enjoyed this dish.

Lamb soup - huge serve, and beautiful flavour..

Crispy flathead fillets - usually my favourite, but outshone this time by the Poutine.

I realize that most people will not get up to the Mt Buller summit just to try a bowl of Poutine, but I would heartily suggest that if you do happen to get up here, do yourself a favour and pop into the Kooroora to get your hands (and mouth) on a couple of Hoo-Hah’s - their dishes, that is.

Rating:  NomNomNom!

Meh                      It’ll Do                   Nom(x3)                              Must go back!

Done and Degusted @ Hoo Hah Kitchen
Poutine
Lamb Soup (stew!)
Flathead (and more chips)