Where - 43 Royal Parade, Parkville

Price - $25

Website - http://www.naughtonshotel.com.au

Reviewers – Lee & Stefo

After a very redo-heavy year I’ve come to a decision - We officially retiring the Redux at ParmaDaze.

For clarity, we aren’t gonna stop revisiting pubs we have done in the past, but after reviewing parmas for nearly nine years we are going to be revisiting more and more pubs to the point where marking them specifically as redo’s is becoming an increasingly moot point, and keeping track of what actually qualifies as a redo is getting harder and harder to keep track of (Does it have the same owners? Has the name of the pub changed? Did the original owners change the name of the pub?).

Don’t get me wrong, if we visit a pub that we have already visited in the past I’ll definitely mention it in the body of the review and there will no doubt be comparisons made between the first and subsequent visits, but titling a revisit review as a “Redux” is now a thing of the past (and lets face it, calling a redo a “Redux” was always a bit of a wank to begin with).

Anyway. On to the review!

We first visited Naughtons in January of 2013, back when it was going by Naughton’s Parkville Hotel, and to be honest it was a pretty great parma! Not perfect by any stretch but I always held it in high regards as one of the better parmas in the area.

Then recently I found out that Naughtons had undergone a bit of a change. Basically gutted inside and reopened only weeks ago with a new vibe, a new fit out and (most importantly) a new menu. The rennos looked outstanding and I was curious to see if the parma had also undergone a change, so we loaded up the parma bus (for the last time in 2018, I might add) and headed to Parkville.

The sun was shining this particular Thursday so we opted for an al fresco table out the front of the pub. Grabbed a menu and checked our target for the night…