food and wine

HOT: Sweet Studio Pop Up Store, Careers Australia Building, 196 Flinders Street, Melbourne

March 31, 2011 ⋅ One comment

‘Sweet studio’. For someone with a huge sweet tooth like me, I don’t think there are words more exciting (except maybe ‘all you can eat dessert buffet’). UK expats Ian Burch and Darren Purchese specialise in pastries and desserts and they are opening up a dessert only store in South Yarra in April. While that [...]

HOT Chat: Bhakti Talreja of Twestival Melbourne 2011

March 18, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Tweeps of Melbourne, it’s time to get together to support a great cause. Twestival Melbourne 2011 is coming up next week Thursday 24 March with food, drink and entertainment for a mere $25 and this year’s charity is STREAT, a Melbourne-based social enterprise providing homeless youth with the opportunity for a long term career in the hospitality [...]

HOT: Studio Ink, Hogan Gallery, 310 Smith St, Collingwood

March 16, 2011 ⋅ One comment

My last event of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival for this year was to support a friend’s winery, Pyren Vineyard. Pyren Vineyard is a small scale producer of cool climate wines in the Pyrenees. For their newest wine, a Shiraz/Cabernet blend, they invited twelve artists to produce an original piece of art under the theme ”Combinations of [...]

HOT: Funerals & Food: Inspired by Tradition, Nelson Bros Funeral Services, 81 Kororoit Creek Rd, Williamstown

March 15, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

http://www.melhotornot.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=9872&message=10 Funerals & Food: Inspired by Tradition is definitely the winner of Most Intriguing Event during the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival (though technically it’s not part of the festival’s official program). Nelson Bros is Australia’s oldest family owned funeral company and at their historic Williamstown funeral home they hosted an afternoon of panelists exploring [...]

HOT: Forgotten Fruits High Tea, Southpaw Bar, 189 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

March 13, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

Another one-off (and sold out) event as part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, this time the Forgotten Fruits High Tea at Southpaw Bar. It caught my fancy because it sounded like something from Alice in Wonderland! This wasn’t just any high tea, but a high tea full of cakes and pastries made from [...]

HOT: Thorsten Schmidt event, Denmark House, Level 3, 428 Little Bourke St, Melbourne

March 9, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

New Nordic cuisine is so hot right now. You may know that best restaurant in the world according to San Pellegrino’s World 50 Best Restaurants is Noma, in Copenhagen. The chef of Noma, Rene Redzepi, has been instrumental in building a movement to reinvent Nordic cuisine using local, oft-forgotten ingredients. In 2004 some of the [...]

HOT Chat: Braeden Lord of Aussie Farmers Direct

February 25, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Bizarre as it sounds, one of my hobbies is grocery shopping. I’m not talking about trawling the fluorescent aisles of a mega-supermarket, but rather poking around farmers markets, ethnic grocery stores and fancy providores. However, given my recent lack of mobility due to pregnancy and a newborn baby, I’ve fully embraced the concept of online grocery delivery. [...]

HOT: Johnston Street Foodstore, 256 Johnston St, Fitzroy

February 9, 2011 ⋅ One comment

As human beings, we all have our strange little foibles, don’t we? My friend R will eat tomatoes, but only if they’re on pizza. RM likes strawberry jam, but won’t eat strawberries. I don’t drink coffee, but I’m a sucker for tiramisu. Weird, I know. Which leads me to the housemade tiramisu at Johnston Street [...]

HOT: Noisette, 84 Bay St, Port Melbourne

February 2, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Noisette is reknowned for its French-style cakes and pastries and no doubt you would have eaten its products at many of Melbourne’s restaurants and cafes (such as Coin Laundry and Hausfrau). Their cafe and retail store is located in villagey Bay Street and attracts a steady clientele of pastry fanciers and coffee drinkers. By the [...]

HOT: Jock’s Ice Cream and Sorbet, 83 Victoria Ave, Albert Park

January 31, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments

Given the far-reaching reputation of Jock’s Ice Cream and Sorbet, I was surprised to discover that it occupied such a small space on Victoria Avenue. But the unassuming storefront belies the high quality icecream made daily (by Jock!) offered inside. Anyway, there’s no way you can miss the store, as the heat of summer brings [...]