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HOT: Monsieur Truffe, 90 Smith St, Collingwood

August 16, 2009 ⋅ 10 comments

Today it felt like a big bad wolf was trying to blow my house down. I literally felt myself being lifted off my feet as I struggled my way up gusty Smith Street, so it was a relief to duck mid-trip into the haven of Monsieur Truffe. As soon as I stepped inside this chocolate [...]

NOT: Provenance Restaurant & Bar, 288 Smith St, Collingwood

August 16, 2009 ⋅ 9 comments

I’ll admit that it may not be fair to judge a restaurant on its breakfasts alone, but we should have an inkling of the quality of the fare presented at Provenance when we spotted the ‘Chef wanted’ sign in the window. It wasn’t that the food was desperately terrible, more that it was not done [...]

HOT: Shamelessly Glitzy Work, Arts House, 521 Queensberry St, North Melbourne

August 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In my experience, fringe theatre can go two ways – quirky and interesting or really really bad. After the fiasco that was Spectacular last week, I was a bit scared about what the Arts House‘s second week of Green Saturday Matinees would bring me. The stage for Shamelessly Glitzy Work was decked out in a [...]

HOT: Steel Works, Guildford Lane Gallery, 20-24 Guildford Ln, Melbourne

August 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

My second time to the Guildford Lane Gallery as an accidental visit after an abortive attempt to find a Laneway Commission in Guildford Lane. This time, the gallery was showing disparate works from a couple of different artists, with the ground floor occupied by Steel Works by Mark Cowie and Greg Cassidy. As I’ve previously [...]

HOT: We Are Sorry, 620-640 Little Bourke St, Melbourne

August 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

One of the joys of Melbourne is that you never know what you’ll find down a hidden alley. Melbourne City Council knows that the alleyways are one of Melbourne’s attractions, so for the past seven years they have commissioned artists to produce site-specific works for laneways and other unusual urban spaces in the CBD. This [...]

HOT: Organic Wholefoods, 277 Smith St, Fitzroy

August 15, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I’m very fortunate that I have not one, but two organic and bulk food stores within walking distance from my house – Organic Wholefoods and Friends of the Earth. Like a bag lady I regularly carry a collection of clinking jars, plastic tofu containers and paper bags in case I suddenly feel the impulse to [...]

HOT: Lindt Chocolat Cafe, 271 Collins St, Melbourne

August 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Look out Max Brenner and Koko Black! The CBD has a new chocolate cafe and it comes from the Swiss maitre chocolatiers Lindt. I was very excited to discover that they were opening their first store in Victoria, as I’ve always made time for a pilgrimage to their Martin Place store during my visits to [...]

HOT: Pick and Eat Winter BBQ, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen

August 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

One of the joys of not working is that on a balmy winter’s day, I can go for a bike ride through bucolic scenery and bask in the sun after a picnic lunch, while everyone else is cooped up, grey-faced in a temperature-controlled office cubicle. So I was most excited when I woke up this [...]

HOT: Bounce Back, 266 Johnston St, Abbotsford

August 12, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

Oh dear. My first Bounce Back class and I’ve discovered that left to my own devices I have uneven hips, super-tight neck muscles, one dropped shoulder, a non-firing pelvic floor and a jutting chin like a Neanderthal (I blame too many years of computer work for that one). I’m a core muscle mess, even after [...]

HOT: Thread Den, Level 1, 16 Errol St, North Melbourne

August 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Thread Den: Part 1 My little swatch of chiffon from Tessuti has been patiently waiting for me to master a sewing machine so that it can be turned into a lovely scarf. So on a cold Tuesday evening, I trooped off to Sewing Basics Module 1 at Thread Den, a great little shop and sewing [...]