Where - 172 York St. South Melbourne

Price - $26

Website - https://thealbion.bar

Reviewers – Lee, Nikki & Stefo

Its a bit of a weird sentence, but we’ve now been to a few Albion’s in our time. First there was the Hotel Albion in Port Melbourne (which we returned to for the Man Vs. Parma Challenge) as well as the Albion in North Melbourne - All fine examples of a parma, but just in case having a Hotel Albion and an Albion Hotel in the same city wasn’t confusing enough, South Melbourne is now home to The Albion (Which I’ll refer to as the Albion Rooftop, for the sake of everyone’s mental health).

Situated directly across the road from the South Melbourne Market, the more seasoned drinkers amongst us may remember the building as “Motel”, a Melbourne nightclub that tore it up in the late nineties/early noughties, and while The Albion Rooftop is still a nightclub when the sun goes down, there is still a cheeky lunch and dinner menu available for when things are a little quieter.

When the pub first opened (last year some time I believe? There were some delays after a fire during construction) I checked the menu and there was no parma in sight, it seemed like they were going for a more “gastro” vibe and the parma had gotten the flick. Well luckily they have come to their senses, as it was recently brought to our attention that a parma had finally been added to the Albion Rooftop’s menu.

I like parmas, I like drinking in high places, seems like somewhere to check out!