pizza

HOT: Giant Steps Innocent Bystander Winery, 336 Maroondah Highway, Healesville

November 25, 2011 ⋅ One comment

A sunny weekend saw us taking a trip out to the Yarra Valley, armed with a recommendation for lunch at Giant Steps/Innocent Bystander. Unlike most of the other wineries in the Yarra Valley, Giant Steps/Innocent Bystander isn’t located on an expansive piece of green land – it’s just a straight turnoff from the Maroondah Highway [...]

HOT: Wye River General Store, 35 Great Ocean Rd, Wye River

November 8, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

With summer arriving my thoughts turn to the beach and the coast. To be exact, my thoughts are turning to where to eat at the beach and the coast. And one of my recommendations is Wye River General Store. As the name suggests, it’s a general store which operates for the citizens and visitors of [...]

HOT: Queen Margaret, 356 Queens Pde, North Fitzroy

September 25, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The pizzeria Queen Margaret is not named as a reference to QEII’s sister, but to Queen Margherita of Savoy, the first Queen of the united Italy and for whom the magherita pizza was named. Queen Margaret boasts eighteen (!) pizza varieties on its chalkboard menu, spearheaded by not just one but three riffs on the [...]

HOT: Espressino Coffee and Pizza Bar, 68-70 King St, The Rialto, Melbourne

September 1, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments

A lifetime ago I worked at Rialto in Collins Street and there were zero good lunch options. Fortunately things have been moved on in what my former colleague dubbed the ‘Beirut’ end of town. One of the great places located under my former liftwell is Espressino. Espressino is a pizza and coffee bar brought to [...]

HOT: Fatto a Mano, 228 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

April 21, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments

Every year around this time I do a little taste-run of hot cross buns in Melbourne. Ostensibly it’s to provide blog readers with information but really it’s just an excuse to eat a lot of fruity, spicy, sticky bread (I’m a purist – chocolate chips should not be found in hot cross buns!). Sadly this [...]

HOT: Supermaxi, 305 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North

February 28, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Melburnians love their gourmet pizzas and Supermaxi is the one of the newest kids on the block. However, the team behind Supermaxi comes with a lot of experience – namely, the head chef is Rita Macali, one of the original owners of Ladro in Fitzroy and arguably partly responsible for kick-starting the trend about 5 [...]

HOT: Ladro, 224 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

July 20, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

Ladro was one of the restaurants at the forefront of the designer pizza craze that swept through Melbourne about 5 years ago. It’s still going strong despite the departure of one of the original owners/chefs Rita Macali (who’s sprouted another pizza joint called Supermaxi in North Fitzroy), expanding to a new outpost in Prahran recently. [...]