Miscellaneous

Cafe Secrets Melbourne for Little Ones Giveaway!

December 16, 2011 ⋅ 13 comments

If you know people living in from Melbourne with little ones who love to eat out, I’ve got the perfect Christmas stocking stuffer for you. Deck of Secrets and Melbourne-based eating out blog Little Eats have teamed up to publish a new Deck of Secrets guide featuring 52 of the best kid-friendly cafes in Melbourne. I have a couple of Deck [...]

Tell me where to go that’s HOT

October 10, 2011 ⋅ 13 comments

It’s a truth universally acknowledged in Melbourne that if you live on one side of the river you hardly ever cross to the other side of the river. I’m living proof of that statement. I used to live south of the river and hardly ever travelled beyond the CBD. Now I live north of the [...]

HOT: Pho Chu The, 264 Victoria St, Richmond

August 2, 2011 ⋅ 6 comments

Victoria Street Richmond is somewhere I only venture with a recommendation. There are just too many restaurants to choose from and life’s too short to be eating bad pho. My most reliable source of Vietnamese food recommendations is my Vietnamese friend J, a prolific eater-outerer and an excellent home cook. Since she got a car [...]

HOT: Slowpoke Espresso, 157 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

June 21, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

This time last year it seemed that Smith Street was the place to open a cafe or restaurant. Funky eateries launched one after the other and the punters flocked to the slowly gentrifying grunginess. This year it seems that maybe it’s Brunswick Street’s turn, with two new openings within a short space of each other [...]

The Age Good Cafe Guide Awards 2011

June 14, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

The results of The Age Good Cafe Guide Awards 2011 were announced today and I’m glad to see that some of my favourites have made it along with some new names that I’m keen to try out! Best Coffee – Seven Seeds, Carlton. Guess I’ll have to rope along my coffee-drinking friends to try it [...]

HOT Chat: Doron Francis of CERES Fair Food

April 8, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

I’ve blogged about the fact that I’m a recent convert to online grocery shopping and home delivery before and in the midst of my research I came across a particularly interesting concept – Fair Food. Fair Food is a CERES project aimed a providing reasonably priced organic food boxes to our community where its most needed. [...]

A little interruption…

February 17, 2011 ⋅ 8 comments

via Allan Peters, AIGA Minnesota You may find that blog posts are not as frequent in the next few weeks due to some exciting news… Jetsetting Joyce and RM have just had a little baby girl, Miss A! Everyone is healthy and happy and thank you for all your good wishes and congratulations.

The Age Melbourne Magazine

January 28, 2011 ⋅ 10 comments

So according to February’s The Age Melbourne Magazine, I’m one of Melbourne’s virtual celebrities :–) In today’s Age newspaper, the glossy magazine insert has a story about some of Melbourne’s bloggers. You’ll meet Lady Melbourne, Literary Minded, Melbourne Gastronome, Planning with Kids…and yours truly, typing away at one of my favourite cafes, Proud Mary. While [...]

Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year!

December 20, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

My Christmas tree from Eco Christmas Trees I expect that most of you will be relaxing with your friends and family for the next few weeks and thus too busy to read my daily ramblings. So from today I’m going to be taking a blogging break for the holidays and returning in January 2011. The [...]

HOT: Saint Peter’s, 6 Melbourne Place, Melbourne

November 9, 2010 ⋅ 8 comments

The full version of this post was written and originally published by Gourmet Chick. Thanks! It helps to have friends with their finger on the pulse. I may not have been back to my home town of Melbourne for a good six months, but as soon as I arrived, my friend Joyce organised dinner at [...]