78 Williams Road, Prahran
Phone 03 9525 2178
From what I hear, photos of the food at Jacques Reymond are pretty hard to come by, especially when waiters are charged with instructions to politely inform photo-taking diners that the Chef does not allow such things to happen in his restaurant. Ahem.
As luck would have it, a friend of mine threw a private [...]
249 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Phone 03 9564 6522
Bars with manifestos. Hmm…I don’t know whether to wince or to whoop in excitement as it toes that very fine line of pretentious gitdom. The manifesto at this particular bar is that it has a strict no pints, no alcopops, no energy drinks and no chart tunes policy, which ever [...]
1a Crossley Street, Melbourne
(behind The Paperback)
Phone (03) 9662 2756
Von Haus has been the darling of the dead-tree media the last few months, which is probably reason why I’ve held off writing about it. The problem is, Von Haus is cool, and oh so cool at that. It is also teeny-tiny, and when EG and I first [...]
Crown Entertainment Complex
8 Whiteman Street, Southbank
Phone 03 9693 3888
There is something about the French that just does it for me. I don’t know if it’s the accent, the joie de vive, or the gratuitous use of butter and cream in their cooking. But my heart just skips a beat at the mere mention of such [...]
275 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
Phone (03) 9663 7994
Prompted by Claire over at the fabulously revamped Melbourne Gastronome, I’ve dragged this post out of my drafts to finally see the light of day (nb. I have been somewhat remiss in blogging due to life getting in the way of things. But rest assured, I have still been [...]
241 Swanston Street, MelbournePhone 03 9663 3288
Let me set the record straight right from the start, I am a Pho Dzung man. It’s important to state this, as people are very loyal to their favourite CBD pho noodle shop, and this loyalty can be as divided as Ford or Holden. My preference for the [...]
120 Hardware Street, Melbourne
Phone 03 9670 2008
***THIS CAFE HAS NOW CLOSED***
Vora Cafe is an unusual little Korean place that sits quietly and without much fuss on Hardware Street. EG and I had walked past it many times but had never felt drawn in. To be honest, if often looked quite dead. From the street you [...]
87 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne
Phone 03 9639 7050
Time to interrupt our Japan holiday posts with a Melbourne dining experience, although as you can see I haven’t veered too far from the current theme. We were craving a taste of the food from our recent trip, and decided that Nihonbashi Zen might satiate that need.
The restaurant [...]
680 Victoria Street, Richmond
Phone 03 9427 8500
It’s not that I’m hard up for blogging material - I have about a gazillion blog entries from Japan/Singapore just begging to be written. But when a foodie moment grabs you by the short and curlies, how can one resist?
Such a moment occurred a few weeks ago at a [...]
26 Corrs Lane, Melbourne(03) 9663 8861
Matt Preston’s review of Dainty Sichuan in Epicure yesterday prompted me to post my views on this popular little eatery, which EG first experienced back in August. Since then we’ve been back a number of times, dragging parents, friends and just ourselves along for some chilli madness. To be perfectly [...]
