Where - Wilson & Thomas St. Moonee Ponds

Price - $23 in bistro, $25 in the cafe

Website - https://www.thevalley.com.au/clubs/mv-legends

Reviewers – Lee & Nikki

I’ve had horses on the brain this week. With the Spring Carnival everywhere you turn in Melbourne it has gotten me thinking about parmas we’ve done in relation to this time of year, and one that keeps popping up in my head is our review of the Legends bistro at Moonee Valley racecourse.

In this redo heavy few months we’ve been having I have been putting a lot of emphasis on pubs that I think got a bit of a raw deal in the past, giving the pubs that scored poorly on the ladder a chance at redemption. Our review of The Valley is kind’ve the opposite. We first reviewed it back in 2011, and due to an insane anomaly in our scoring system (the parma was crap, but the unlimited salad bar, awesome chips and super cheap price tag) meant that it somehow scored unusually well for what was in fact a pretty average parma. “We’ve got to have faith in the system” I used to tell myself, however whenever I would look at the ladder and see it in our top 20 I would wince a little. You don’t belong there, Legends Bistro - I even made an edit to the review in 2015 after a particularly angry email that it probably isn’t as good as it seems, and to approach with caution.

Well synergy is the name of the game in online content these days, so while trying to come up with a Spring Carnival related review idea it struck me. It’s been 7 years since our first visit to the Valley, It’s time to go back and see how much things have changed.