Victoria

HOT: Corey Lee, Langham Melbourne Chef Masterclass, Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, Langham Melbourne, 1 Southbank Ave, Southbank

March 12, 2012 ⋅ One comment

Someone please buy me an around-the-world airplane ticket! After day of eating, drinking, talking and listening to some of the world’s most interesting and talked-about chefs from overseas and Australia, all I want to do is jump on a plane and feast. The 7.5 hour program of the Langham Melbourne Chef Masterclasses is a marathon [...]

HOT: France vs. Australia Food & Wine Showdown, Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, Mr Mason, 530 Collins St, Melbourne

March 11, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Most of my high school French is getting rusty these days but my vocabulary of French food and wine is on an exponential learning curve. So thanks to Melbourne Food and Wine Festival I attended a Melbourne Food and Wine Festival event called France vs. Australia Food & Wine Showdown as a guest purely for the purposes [...]

HOT: Sweets, Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders St, Melbourne + Giveaway!

March 9, 2012 ⋅ 41 comments

As an immigrant, Melbourne’s Immigration Museum holds a special place in my heart. Housed in the beautiful Old Customs House by the river, the museum presents the stories of people from all over the world, people just like me, who have made their home in Australia and Victoria. It’s important to me to support and promote a dedicated [...]

HOT: Red Door Corner Store, 70 Mitchell St, Northcote

March 9, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

While the demise of the neighbourhood milk bar is a sad testament of our time of mega-malls and supermarket duopolies, the silver lining is that Melburnians have managed to transform the humble corner store into some fantastic cafes, including Mitte, Squirrel Cafe and my latest find, Red Door Corner Store. The owner/chef has retained some [...]

HOT: Brunswick Flour Mill, 337-341 Sydney Rd, Brunswick

February 24, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Brunswick Flour Mill is a casual, pretension-free cafe in the heart of Sydney Road. As their name suggests they are an artisan bakery as well as dining out venue, with loaves, cakes, pastries and ready-made sandwiches all on offer. The all day breakfast/lunch sit down menu is not particularly fancy and frankly a bit dated [...]

NOT: Afternoon Tea, Sofi’s, The Sofitel Melbourne, 25 Collins St, Melbourne

February 21, 2012 ⋅ 4 comments

It’s my not-so-secret mission to taste test every high tea available in metropolitan Melbourne within the time of this blog. I think that’s an entirely doable goal – so far I’ve hit Stranger’s Corridor, The Langham Melbourne, The Westin and now The Sofitel. Sadly, the weekday high tea at Sofi’s, the lobby lounge of The [...]

HOT: Friday BBQ, Section 8, 27-29 Tattersalls Lane, Melbourne

February 17, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

To celebrate summer (or whenever the warm weather decides to end for good) popular container bar Section 8 are hosting a Friday barbecue of footlong hotdogs. Section 8 is one of my go-to venues for out of town visitors – it’s pretty hidden away in a Chinatown vacant lot, grungy cool in the way Melbourne [...]

HOT: Hako, 310 Flinders Ln, Melbourne

February 15, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Hako is a refined yet relaxed Japanese restaurant located in the office precinct of Flinders Lane. In the narrow half-block between Elizabeth and Queen Streets there are a lot of lunch options and my stomach firmly supports a trip to Hako. The interior design is Zen spare – nothing adorns the expanse of off-white walls [...]

HOT: Mottainai Cycles, 41 Kerr St, Fitzroy

February 13, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Does Fitzroy/Collingwood has the greatest density of bike shops per square kilometre in Melbourne? Being a cycling fan and a local I had thought I was familiar with all the bike shops in the area – but just recently I stumbled across Mottainai Cycles. As in literally stumbled – I tripped over their board sign [...]

HOT: CERES Organic Cafe, CERES Community Environment Park Cnr Roberts and Stewart Streets, Brunswick East

February 10, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

CERES Community Environmental Park is arguably Melbourne’s hippie hub. CERES stands for Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies and it’s a not-for-profit, sustainable urban farm located on the banks of Merri Creek in East Brunswick. But whether you wear hemp fisherman’s pants or carry a designer label handbag, I think everyone would enjoy [...]