breakfast

HOT: The Pantry, 1 Church St, Brighton

November 29, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

Heading to the beachside suburbs of Melbourne is now a day-trip for my northside self. But not only is it geographically distant, it’s almost a foreign land compared to my local hood (which centers around the Un-Safeway of Smith Street). This is a land where fake boobs bob perkily above skinny soy decaf lattes, where [...]

HOT: Auction Rooms, 103-107 Errol St, North Melbourne

November 25, 2009 ⋅ 10 comments

Auction Rooms is a casual cafe/restaurant set inside the old WB Ellis auction house in North Melbourne. In fact, the long wooden floorboards, exposed beams, distressed brickwork and high ceilings hoisting a series of whirring fans reminded me a lot of the interior of an airy Queenslander home. It seems like the kind of place [...]

HOT: Proud Mary, Cnr Stanley and Oxford Sts, Collingwood

November 7, 2009 ⋅ 22 comments

Lena: Do you really not drink coffee????? Jetsetting Joyce: Um, that’s right. I’m not a true Melburnian. Can you and James please come to Proud Mary with me? It’s reputed to have the best coffee in Melbourne and I’d really appreciate your expert coffee-drinking opinion. James: Sure. I have been coffeeing a bit at Brother Baba [...]

HOT Chat: Jessica Rae of Melbourne Op Shop Tours

November 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This week’s HOT Chat is with Jessica Rae from Melbourne Op Shop Tours. I seem to be on a ‘green’ bent lately (check out previous HOT Chats with Eco Fashionista and 321 Water) and Melbourne Op Shop Tours is another Melbourne-based business which takes the approach that being green doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice style [...]

HOT Chat: Alex Hume of Eco Fashionista

October 19, 2009 ⋅ One comment

This week’s HOT Chat comes from Eco Fashionista. Alex Hume chatted to me about fashion, living eco-conscious and being a business-owner with a young toddler. Alex, how did Eco Fashionista come about? Eco Fashionista was launched almost a year to the day my son Max was born. Max’s arrival (and the huge sense of responsibility that arrived [...]

HOT: Social Media Club, Mr Tulk, State Library, 328 Swanston St, Melb

October 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This week at the Social Media Club breakfast I met Michelle Lambert, from SIRF Rt. SIRF Rt organises collaborative roundtables for corporate organisations to share their knowledge management processes, information, experiences and insights. Corporate member organisations ranging from Medibank, National Australia Bank, Australian Unity and Telstra gather together four times a year at Melbourne Zoo to talk [...]

HOT: Social Media Club, Mr Tulk, State Library, 328 Swanston St, Melb

September 25, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Another Friday, another Social Media Club breakfast at Mr Tulk. Having attended three breakfasts now, I’m starting to realise that there’s a bunch of regulars who I see every week but to whom I’ve never had to chance to introduce myself. So next week’s aim is to say hi to all those familiar faces. This [...]

HOT: Birdman Eating, 238 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

September 19, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

With the queues of brunch-goers snaking their way up Gertrude Street every weekend, I was expecting big things from Birdman Eating. Did it stack up? In short – kinda. The sleek cafe is a narrow, crowded space dotted with funky decorative elements, from the bunched light globe chandelier made by the owner to the miniature [...]

HOT: Social Media Club, Mr Tulk, State Library, 328 Swanston St, Melbourne

September 4, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

When my friend Nikita at Design Junction read my blog and suggested I check out the Social Media Club, I thought it sounded like a great place to meet up with potential guest bloggers. I’m a girl and I have certain interests, which means that’s I’ll probably never be able to offer you an accurate [...]

Ask the Doctor: Sunday breakfast in the CBD

August 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Help me Doctor!: Do you know any good Sunday breakfast places in the city with real food? I’m thinking along the lines of the breakfast I had recently in Barcelona: beans, asparagus, prosciutto, chorizo and great bread, of course . - Jenny M Your prescription: Oooh you’ve thrown me a curveball here Jenny M. Not many [...]