Where - 42A Courtney St. North Melbourne

Price - $24

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

Reviewers – Lee, Nikki & Stefo

When I mentioned at the top of our Woodlands Hotel: Redux review that there would be a few redos appearing in the coming weeks I wasn't kidding, and although today's visit to the Celtic at Metropolitan isn't strictly a redo, it is redo-esque, as it's taking the now closed top 10 title holder The Metropolitan Hotel and the now closed Celtic Club, smashing them together into an unholy Irish hybrid and I figured we'd better do our due diligence and see what sort of parma had been birthed in the process.

Our trip to the Metropolitan was right at the very start of our quest, our seventh review to be exact, and it blew us out of the water. It held the #1 for a long time and, had we been doing Golden Chook Awards that early on in this little endeavour, most definitely would have received at least one. We got to the Celtic Club's parma in 2015 and it wasn't as well received. It was okay, but definitely not one I'd write home about. So when the Celtic Club shut its doors I mentally noted it as another loss of a fine CBD pub but honestly didn't think much more of it.

Until, while walking past the Metropolitan Hotel recently, noticed they had changed their name to 'Celtic at Metropolitan' and that the menu had taken on a considerably more Irish pub fare slant (lamb stew, beef & Guinness pie... the usual suspects). I did a bit of research and it turned out that yes, since February this year the Metropolitan has become the "new home" of the Celtic Club, and is now trading as (you guessed it) Celtic at Metropolitan.

I was curious. The Metropolitan's parma was always great (granted I hadn't had it in about 7 years), and this spurred us to head over and see what kind've parma is being served at the once fantastic pub.