Where? - 294 Lygon st. Carlton

Price? - $29.90 for the King Parma

Website? https://www.bobosdiner.com.au

Reviewers – Lee, Nikki & Stefo

It's Twenty-Seventeen! And ParmaDaze is back with a new look website and yet another year of the hunt for the perfect parma ahead.

For the first parma of the year I wanted to find something special. The bar had been set pretty high as the first parma of 2016 was our current highest rated parma of all time, The Birmingham Hotel - Tough to beat!

Bobo's Diner has been on our list for quite a while, I was aiming to get to their Ivanhoe location some time this year (they also have spots in Chirnside Park and Frankston), but it wasn't until a lazy lunch on Lygon (say that ten times fast) during the Christmas break that I noticed that Bobo's opened up a fourth restaurant smack dab in the middle of Carlton.

I had heard stories of Bobo's. Tales of gigantic parmas that were nigh on impossible to finish. Whispers of parmas so huge the menu carried a warning before they were ordered. It had to be done, and what better time than the first parma of 2017. We washed the leaves off the parma bus, loaded it up, and headed to Carlton.

It's hard to pin down what Bobo's actually is. Like a lot of places on Lygon Street it's not quite a bar, not quite a restaurant and not quite a cafe, yet a little bit of all three. I guess the closest thing you could pin it down as is what is written on the window, a Diner.

The menu at Bobo's is stuffed with classic american diner fare. Wings, Hot Dogs, Ribs, Subs, Fried Chicken, Burgers and a sinfully decadent dessert menu - It almost seems out of place to have a selection of parmas available, yet in the centre of the menu, as promised...