Dinner
Foodie Stuff: Springvale Gourmet Food Guide

Foodie Stuff: Springvale Gourmet Food Guide

Live crabs for sale at one of Springvale’s many seafood markets – image by Amy Martin If living life to its fullest could be personified, Elizabeth Chong would be a pretty good example!  At 84 years of age, this energetic lady with sparkly eyes and amazing skin has been running Asian cooking classes for 54 years, conducts...
Travel: Mornington Peninsula Food Mini Guide

Travel: Mornington Peninsula Food Mini Guide

Travel: Mornington Peninsula Food Mini Guide The Mornington Peninsula is Victoria’s original playground. Only an hour’s drive from Melbourne, its food and wine offerings are as well-known as its beaches and seaside towns.  There’s been a wave of new openings in the last year or so. Taking in some old favourites and some new ones,...
Social Food Projects and Events Melbourne

Social Food Projects and Events Melbourne

Image credit: Dine Smart Social Food Projects and Events Melbourne Are you a fan of eating and dining with purpose? Fantastic, so are we! Here is a round up of some inspiring social food projects and events in Melbourne that allow you to enjoy your experience twice by offering you a fantastic meal/drink that goes...
Social Enterprise Caterers Melbourne

Social Enterprise Caterers Melbourne

Photo by Kelly Jean on Unsplash Social Enterprise Caterers Melbourne Social Enterprise Caterers Melbourne is a round of up of Melbourne caterers whose delicious work is making a difference. By Jen Curcio   For a number of years now, Melbourne has had a considerable presence when it comes to options for social enterprise caterers.  If you’re hosting or organising...
A Gourmet Food Guide to Dandenong

A Gourmet Food Guide to Dandenong

Baker Andrew Lipiszko with a freshly baked batch of Polish pretzels A Gourmet Food Guide to Dandenong Where and how to eat like a gourmet in Dandenong I’m not much of a television viewer but one of my guilty TV pleasures is watching foodie shows. Right at the top of that list is the locally...
Review: Bistro Thierry

Review: Bistro Thierry

Prix Fixe entrées: freshly shucked oysters and Steak Tartare   The best kind of friendships, are the ones that remain unchanged despite time apart. In my opinion the best restaurants are the same. Bistro Thierry forms part of an old group of restaurants for me that are at the core of the kind of places...
Review: Sezar Restaurant

Review: Sezar Restaurant

I first dined at Sezar on my birthday last December. I had heard of this new Armenian restaurant which had taken over the location of the Canary Club on Melbourne Place. It ticked all my boxes – hidden down a Melbourne laneway, tapas style allowing me to try multiple dishes and a cuisine I hadn’t...
Event: Dine from Melba's Garden Wrap Up

Event: Dine from Melba’s Garden Wrap Up

The restaurant facade   The Coombe Cottage During her lifetime, Dame Nellie Melba was renowned for putting on a good show, both on and off stage. She was the first Australian musician to achieve international recognition and is considered by some one of Australia’s most famous and talented opera singers of all time. Born in...
Review: Ruyi

Review: Ruyi

I’ve never been a fan of Chinese food (actually technically that’s not true, one of my old friends is half-Chinese and his Mum always makes amazing dishes), my only Chinese restaurant experiences had been bowls of gluggy, MSG-filled, deep fried food. Before Ruyi.  This place has completely changed my perspective. After hearing about the Hecker...
Review: Pomodoro Sardo

Review: Pomodoro Sardo

Calamari fritti, mixed bread and prosciutto with buffalo mozzarella Pomodoro Sardo, formerly Pomodoro Rosso in the CBD is another restaurant that is close to my heart. It is one of only a handful of Sardinian restaurants in Melbourne, and being half Sardinian I always feel a little closer to my heritage after each visit. Before my...
Review: The Emerson

Review: The Emerson

  The summer holidays are over, at least for most of us anyway. Reluctantly, we have swapped our bathers and cocktails for suits and ties. However, while the 9-to-5 routine may have reinstated itself, the warm weather is still here and Melbournians are still in party mode; drinks after work any night of the week!...
Review: Akatombo

Review: Akatombo

NOTE: AKATOMBO HAS UNFORTUNATELY CLOSED DOWN AS OF 2017 AND HAS BEEN REPLACED BY ANOTHER JAPANESE RESTAURANT. The discovery of a good café or restaurant is generally placed into two categories for food lovers and food bloggers. Category one: tell friends, family and readership instantly, or category two: wanting to tell everyone, but just wanting...

Get social