It’s cut off by the Twitter photo box, but Rydges are offering a happy hour of Furphy pints for $6 from 4:30-7:30 every day. Now I’m not the biggest fan of Furphy, but $6 pints are a fantastic deal. I went onto the Rydges website, found a menu and confirmed that they do indeed serve a parma.

Now there is another, personal reason why my interest was piqued by the Rydges on Swanston parma - back in 2012 Reviewer Nikki and myself got married there. Ceremony on the rooftop, reception in the function room and pre-wedding beers in the very bar we were returning too for a parma review, so as well as heading out for a Thursday feed this review served as a bit of a trip down memory lane.

Now here’s the interesting bit - There was no parma at Rydges when we got married there. Definitely not, as if they did our 120 guests would not have had alternating drops of pork belly or salmon filet but parmas all around. But that has only served to highlight some changes to the Rydges on Swanston menu that I’ll get to shortly.