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HOT: Sweet Studio Pop Up Store, Careers Australia Building, 196 Flinders Street, Melbourne

March 31, 2011 ⋅ One comment

‘Sweet studio’. For someone with a huge sweet tooth like me, I don’t think there are words more exciting (except maybe ‘all you can eat dessert buffet’). UK expats Ian Burch and Darren Purchese specialise in pastries and desserts and they are opening up a dessert only store in South Yarra in April. While that [...]

HOT: Twestival Melbourne 2011, STREAT, Donkey Wheel House, 673 Bourke St, Melbourne

March 29, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments

Gosh, remember way back in August 2009 when I joined ‘Twitters’? Well, since then I’ve met so many interesting and diverse people, both online and offline, and these relationships have been so valuable for my social and professional life. So when I heard about Twestival Melbourne, part of a global initiative gathering together tweeps to [...]

HOT Chat: Chanie Stock of Genki

March 25, 2011 ⋅ 6 comments

Melbourne loves its fashion and one of the most beloved labels of the city is Genki. I first visited Genki‘s Cathedral Arcade shop when I arrived in Melbourne way back in 2003. I immediately fell in love with the tiny colourful shop and the adorable aesthetic of their clothing and accessories, especially their ‘I love….’ [...]

HOT Chat: Bhakti Talreja of Twestival Melbourne 2011

March 18, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Tweeps of Melbourne, it’s time to get together to support a great cause. Twestival Melbourne 2011 is coming up next week Thursday 24 March with food, drink and entertainment for a mere $25 and this year’s charity is STREAT, a Melbourne-based social enterprise providing homeless youth with the opportunity for a long term career in the hospitality [...]

HOT: Thorsten Schmidt event, Denmark House, Level 3, 428 Little Bourke St, Melbourne

March 9, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

New Nordic cuisine is so hot right now. You may know that best restaurant in the world according to San Pellegrino’s World 50 Best Restaurants is Noma, in Copenhagen. The chef of Noma, Rene Redzepi, has been instrumental in building a movement to reinvent Nordic cuisine using local, oft-forgotten ingredients. In 2004 some of the [...]

HOT: Hausfrau, 123 Bridport St, Albert Park

February 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Albert Park is surely the ultimate suburb to find glossy blonde ladies-who-lunch, so what better place to set up a cafe called Hausfrau? Hausfrau Albert Park is the sister cafe to the original Hausfrau in Yarraville and it opened two weeks ago. The cafes look similar with their quaint tea salon decor, except that the [...]

HOT: Noisette, 84 Bay St, Port Melbourne

February 2, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Noisette is reknowned for its French-style cakes and pastries and no doubt you would have eaten its products at many of Melbourne’s restaurants and cafes (such as Coin Laundry and Hausfrau). Their cafe and retail store is located in villagey Bay Street and attracts a steady clientele of pastry fanciers and coffee drinkers. By the [...]

HOT: Hairspray the Musical, Princess Theatre, Spring St, Melbourne

January 20, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

I really enjoy going to see musicals but even with ample opportunity to see award-winning musical Hairspray both in Australia and overseas, for some reason I thought it was going to be too corny, too kitsch, for me to enjoy. How wrong I was. I LOVED Hairspray. I can even safely say that it’s the [...]

HOT: Brickvention 2011, Melbourne Town Hall, Collins St, Melbourne

January 17, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments

Sunday morning. 9:45am. The line was longer than anything I’d ever seen for the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Melbourne Film Festival, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra or any other event held at the Melbourne Town Hall. My friend said that the patient queue that snaked up Collins Street, Russell Street and looped around the building completely reminded him [...]

HOT Chat: Anna Brockhurst from Eco Christmas Trees

December 17, 2010 ⋅ One comment

It’s fitting that the last HOT Chat for the year is a Christmas-themed one. I found out about Eco Christmas Trees via Twitter and was immediately captured by the idea of having a real live Christmas tree in my home, without the waste that goes into cutting down a tree and then disposing of it [...]