Miscellaneous

NOT: Mr Burger Food Truck, Various locations

April 14, 2013 ⋅ 2 comments

My local council City of Yarra doesn’t really like food trucks, so when one is actually approved to come to my neighbourhood I get disproportionately excited. And when I found out that Mr Burger was going to be pulling up down the street I was like a kid within earshot of the tinkling of Greensleeves, chasing [...]

HOT: Shimbashi Soba and Sake Bar, 17 Liverpool St, Melbourne

February 13, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

My parents recently returned from Japan where they raved about all the fabulous food that they ate, including oodles of noodles. So when they came to Melbourne to visit recently I pressed them to come with me to Shimbashi Soba and Sake Bar and bestow their expert opinion on the handmade buckwheat noodles made on [...]

HOT: Grub Food Van, 87-89 Moor St, Fitzroy

March 23, 2012 ⋅ One comment

As far as food trends go, food trucks are almost passe in Melbourne these days. So yes, while Grub Food Van has a kitchen inside a van, it’s a food truck which stays put and thus has some advantages over its competitors. Specifically, staying in one spot means that it’s been able to put down [...]

HOT: Leo’s Fine Food and Wine, 26 Princess St, Kew

March 21, 2012 ⋅ 3 comments

Kat from Spatula Spoon and Saturday has been hassling me for months about visiting Leo’s Fine Foods. She described it as ‘Simon Johnson at supermarket prices’ where you could stock up on gourmet products in a place that was still affordable enough to do your weekly shop. Leo’s is effectively two supermarkets housed in one [...]

HOT: Dan Hunter, Langham Melbourne Chef Masterclass, Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, Langham Melbourne, 1 Southbank Ave, Southbank

March 14, 2012 ⋅ One comment

After a full buffet lunch put on by the Langham, it was back to work (well, as much as sitting down and eating and listening was work) with Dan Hunter, the chef at the Royal Mail. I’ve raved about my dinner at the Royal Mail before and the kitchen presents food that’s all about provenance, [...]

Giveaway Winners!

February 27, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Thanks to everyone who entered the two giveaways last week! Random.org says that: the two winners of the Melbourne Museum SmartBar double pass giveaway are comments #34 Jennifer and #66 Katrina in chronological order; and the winner of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival IGA World’s Longest Lunch double pass is comment #37 Helen in [...]

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 ⋅ 7 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 [...]

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