My first visit to Bodega was short-lived. It was about 9ish on a Friday night and the wait for a table was too long so we ventured elsewhere.

To ensure we got a table this time round (they don’t take bookings, gr…), we got there right on opening time – 6pm. There was already a line forming at the door, but we got a seat.

I would highly recommend the fish fingers. As you can see from the picture below, they’re not your typical ‘fish fingers’. It’s Kingfish sashimi with little bits of cuttlefish on garlic toast. The puzzling thing was even though there was a heap of onion on top, it wasn’t onion-ey.

Pumpkin and feta empanadas with yoghurt sauce. Pretty average without the yoghurt sauce, awesome with it.

Never had Spatchcock before, it just tastes like chicken.

The pork belly was pretty good. And again, it’s not your usual pork belly with crispy crackling on top. It’s steamed pork belly with a shiitake mushroom and onion salad. At first it was weird that the skin wasn’t crispy, but you get use to it and grow to like it.