restaurants and cafes

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: The Drifter’s Table, Small Block, 130 Lygon St, Brunswick East

May 8, 2013 ⋅ 3 comments

I love a good pop up as much as the next Melburnian, but a pop up one-night-only dinner that I found out about via Twitter? I had to get myself to The Drifter’s Table! The Drifter’s Table is a project by Zac Nicholson, Robbie Bell and Keelan Gallogly – three chefs with experience from Quay, Rockpool Bar [...]

HOT: High Coffee, Market Lane Bar, InterContinental Melbourne The Rialto, 495 Collins St, Melbourne

May 5, 2013 ⋅ 3 comments

In a coffee-mad city, it’s surprising that until the indulgence of high tea hasn’t extended to the celebrating the coffee culture in Melbourne…until now. Just in time for Mother’s Day, the InterContinental Melbourne hotel, located in the heritage listed Rialto on Collins Street, has just launched High Coffee, available every afternoon from 2-5pm for $55 [...]

HOT: Atico bar and Fonda Mexican, 144 Chapel St, Windsor

April 29, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

By the looks of the ceaseless stream of people waiting to eat at Fonda Mexican on a weeknight, Melbourne can’t get enough of this Mexican wave we’re riding. So much so that Fonda Mexican has branched out from its small Richmond digs to skip across the river to Prahran. The second Fonda Mexican is bigger, brighter [...]

HOT: GG Restaurant & Bar, 150 Clarendon St, East Melbourne

April 26, 2013 ⋅ One comment

For an inner city suburb, I think that East Melbourne is strangely devoid of good eateries. Maybe because it’s sandwiched by the abundance of excellent choices in Fitzroy/Collingwood, Richmond and the CBD but my impression of the area is that it’s filled with very wealthy people who like to dine at home in the leafy [...]

HOT: A Touch Of…Afternoon tea, Bursaria Fine Foods, Rosina Function Space, Abbotsford Convent, 1 Helier St, Abbotsford

April 23, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Sunny Sundays are meant for enjoying tea and scones I think and the latest afternoon tea offering in Melbourne is by Bursaria Fine Foods at Abbotsford Convent. ‘A Touch Of…’ is billed as a vintage-inspired afternoon tea and I was invited to sample their first event. On arrival guests were presented with a flute of [...]

HOT: Bayte, 56 Johnston St, Collingwood

April 20, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s not often that I have a meal where every dish is faultless. And when I do have such an experience I want to shout it from the rooftops! So today I say – get thee to Bayte (bay-tee)! Bayte is a casual cafe/restaurant serving home-style Lebanese cuisine inspired by the chef’s grandmother’s recipes and childhood dishes. [...]

HOT: Itali.co, 1/173-177 Barkly St, St Kilda

April 1, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

The partnership of Remo Nicollini, restauranteur, and Lino Maglione, master pizza maker, have recently opened a new casual Italian eatery called Itali.co in St Kilda. The two previously owned award winning pizzerias +39 and one of my CBD pizza haunts Espressino, then moved away to build the original Itali.co in Sorrento and start Docklands favourite [...]

HOT: Baker D Chirico, 178 Faraday St, Carlton

March 31, 2013 ⋅ 2 comments

Happy Easter! Every year my quest for Melbourne’s best hot cross buns starts the day after Shrove Tuesday. I don’t give anything up for Lent – instead I start eating a lot of fruit and spice bread products. Rather than write a long-winded post about all the good, bad and ugly hot cross buns I’ve [...]

HOT: Hammer and Tong 412, rear 412 Brunswick St (enter from Westgarth St), Fitzroy

March 22, 2013 ⋅ 3 comments

Fitzroy, I can’t keep up with you! I was walking along Brunswick Street a few weeks ago when I noticed that the ill-fated Brix restaurant had been resurrected into a cafe called Hammer & Tong 412 with a vaguely Communist looking logo on its doorstep. I made a mental note to visit and have only had [...]

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