Here is a list of nearby venues running Melbourne Cup viewing events for tomorrow. Some venues are also offering special menus and live entertainment. Be sure to contact the venue for important details such as time and pricing.

Dooleys Catholic Club: 24-28 John St, Lidcombe NSW 2141, (02) 8745 6100
Carnarvon Golf Club: 65-95 Nottinghill Rd, Lidcombe NSW 2141, (02) 9649 6255

Keighery Hotel: 51 Rawson St, Auburn NSW 2144, (02) 9649 7295
Auburn Tennis Club: 181 Chisholm Rd, Auburn NSW 2144, (02) 9649 7180

Regents Park Hotel: 39 Regent St, Regents Park NSW 2143, (02) 9644 3146
Regent Street Pavilion: 67 Regent St, Regents Park NSW 2143, (02) 9644 2384

Granville Hotel: 10 Good St, Granville NSW 2142, (02) 9637 1424
Royal Hotel: 24 South St, Granville NSW 2142, (02) 9637 1633

Horse & Jockey Hotel: 70 Parramatta Rd, Homebush NSW 2140, (02) 9746 6119

Albion Hotel: 135 George St, Parramatta NSW 2150, (02) 8587 4600
Club Parramatta: 2 Macquarie St, Parramatta NSW 2150, (02) 8865 5100
Station Hotel: 136 Church St, Parramatta NSW 2150, (02) 9689 1122

URBNSURF: 1 Olympic Boulevard, Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127, (02) 8324 1100

Silverwater Hotel: 214 Silverwater Rd, Silverwater NSW 2128, (02) 8884 2899

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Welcome to Honest Eats, a section I’m trying out where I personally review local food service businesses. Today I’m reviewing Cafe Rodem, 7b John Street, Lidcombe.

There’s actually 2 Cafe Rodems in Lidcombe and the one I’m talking about is Cafe Rodem 1, which is the North side of the Lidcombe train station.

The cafe is a small establishment serving take away coffee as well as normal offerings like sandwiches, muffins, croissants and fruit breads.

Rodem is in a decent location being 2 minutes from Lidcombe trains. There is some street parking and a council carpark behind the old police station nearby.

They also have a very extensive all day breakfast menu including bacon and egg rolls, big breakfast and eggs benny leading into lunchtime choices like hamburgers fish and chips, and pasta.

It was lunch time and I ordered a Passionfruit Crush ($8) and Crispy Chicken Burger w/ chips ($15).

The passionfruit crush is an ice blended drink with passionfruit syrup or nectar. In my experience running a cafe, these drinks are cheap to make and easy to serve.

$8 is definitely on the higher end, as you can buy similar drinks in the city around $7-8.

The burger only took 8 minutes to come out.

The chips were crisp but not burnt and the chicken burger was crunchy. It was quite large as well, maybe even overstuffed with slaw. From a value standpoint, this was decent serving and fairly priced.

My only criticism is that the abundance of slaw and the size of the bun made it difficult to handle sand I had to resort to cutting it with my knife and fork.

If I was to make a suggestion I would keep the bun size but reduce the amount of slaw by at least half. Also on this occasion there was a lot of mayo which was overpowering the chicken.

Cafe Rodem is open 7 days, 5:30 am - 4:00 pm on weekdays, 7:00 am - 4:00pm Saturdays and 7:00 am - 12:00 pm on Sundays.

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