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HOT: Melt Chocolate Festival preview, Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders St, Melbourne

May 16, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

If you want to learn about, eat and share chocolate then make sure you don’t miss Melt: Chocolate Festival on next Sunday 26 May 11am – 4pm at the Immigration Museum. At Melt: Chocolate Festival, you will get to meet members of Victoria’s chocolate-loving Portuguese-speaking, Belgian, and Mexican communities to explore the role of chocolate in cuisine, [...]

HOT: Afghanistan Pop Up cafe, Melbourne Museum, Nicholson St, Carlton

May 8, 2013 ⋅ 3 comments

Every year Melbourne Museum hosts a special winter international exhibition and this year’s showcase Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures is from the National Museum of Kabul. If you’re visiting the exhibition (or even if you’re not) you may not be aware that just outside the entrance is a pop up cafe that serves tastes of the region. [...]

HOT: ShanDong MaMa, Shop 7, Mid City Arcade, 200 Bourke St, Melbourne

January 23, 2013 ⋅ 3 comments

Dumplings, dumplings, dumplings – Melburnians just can’t get enough of them. So I predict that new dumpling joint ShanDong MaMa will do well, as they have the distinction of (a) making all their products fresh on premises every day; and (b) receiving the approval of my (Chinese) parents who declared their dumplings some of the [...]

HOT: Dessert Story, 305 Swanston St, Melbourne

July 16, 2012 ⋅ 5 comments

I have been waiting for Dessert Story for a long time. As regular readers will know, I was born in Hong Kong and spent my early childhood there. So a lot of my food preferences have been shaped by my cultural background and my family and one thing I have craved but never been able [...]

HOT: Roll’d, Goldsborough Lane, 181 Williams St, Melbourne

June 15, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve always thought that street food trucks (or better still, street food bikes) would make a killing in the CBD. Whether it’s hot dogs or crepes, the characteristics of street food make it the perfect workday lunch – food that’s generally quick, tasty, filling and cheap. Roll’d is a new lunch joint serving up Vietnamese [...]

HOT: Dognation, Shop 2, The Causeway, Melbourne

June 4, 2012 ⋅ 3 comments

Fancy hot dogs have gone global with Dognation. I do love hot dogs so was quite intrigued to be invited to try Dognation flavours. How would it rate against these and these? Well, you won’t just find the American or German style hot dogs that you’d normally expect – Dognation offers you a Japanese dog, [...]

HOT: Storm in a Teacup, 48 Smith St, Collingwood

May 23, 2012 ⋅ 3 comments

I’m a Melburnian and I’m a non-coffee drinker. Gasp! My hot drink of choice is actually tea and finally, in amongst the million excellent coffee shops in my neighbourhood, Storm in a Teacup has arrived to cater to those who are discerning about their tea leaves (and maybe even convert some diehard hipster coffee drinkers). [...]

HOT: Phat Brats, 320 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

April 25, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

I may be a food snob about some things. But when a gourmet hot dog joint opens around the corner, who am I to turn my nose up at a sausage in a bun? Phat Brats in one of the slew of ‘dude food’ places that have opened up in Melbourne recently and as its [...]

HOT: La Belle Miette, 30 Hardware Lane, Melbourne

April 20, 2012 ⋅ One comment

La Belle Miette is an adorable French patisserie that looks like it just dropped out of the set of Sofia Coppola’s movie Marie Antoinette. The shop is beautiful to behold, a tiny jewel box awash with candy pastels, embossed and beribboned packaging in the windows and fine china cups (my quick snapshot doesn’t do it [...]

HOT: Fuguzza, Shop 5A, 31 Equitable Place, Melbourne

April 11, 2012 ⋅ One comment

As Jetsetting Joyce one of my claims to fame is that I have visited Rome five times. I love the city and have a few favourite (eating) haunts, one of which is Lo Zozzone. Down a secluded alleyway, it’s a local panini and pizza bar staffed by a bunch of Filipono Italians. You get a ticket, pay 3 euros [...]

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