Where - 1 Crockford Street, Port Melbourne

Price - $24

Website - https://www.thecornerstonepub.com.au

Reviewers - Lee & Nikki

This review is gonna start with an embarrassing admission. I’m not gonna sugar coat it, I’m not gonna dace around it. Deep breath. Here we go…

I watch The Bachelor.

To clarify, I don’t watch The Bachelorette, that would be ridiculous. However when Matt Agnew flashed those astrophysicist pearly whites of his in July last year I was enthralled. I could not tear my eyes from the TV, and when I sat in an emotional heap at the end of each episode I would need a few minutes to regain my composure, and some nights a second TV show would follow the Bachelor. A show made in Melbourne, starring Lucy Lawless as a spritely detective trying to balance the pressures of both solving horrific murders and being a mordern woman in 2019. The show was (is? I don’t think it has been cancelled yet) called “My Life is Murder”, and while not as enthralling as The Bachelor, sometimes I’d get roped into the plot and I caught a few episodes.

Now bear with me here, but in the show Lucy Lawless had a restaurant/pub she would visit a lot. She was friendly with the owner, she would discuss cases with Bernard Curry (who I had a theory was actually dead the entire time, but that didn’t actually pan out) and just generally hang out in this pub. Being someone who has visited a lot of Melbourne pubs it bugged the hell of me that I just couldn’t place where it was shot. It did look very “Port Melbourne” but for the longest time I could not place just where in Melbourne the My Life is Murder pub existed.

Then I was suggested the Cornerstone, I checked some photos and new instantly that we had found the MLIM pub, and there was no doubt that a parma there was top priority.