Melbourne food update: He says she says, Touche Hombre, The Botanical.
I may have been absent from the blogging scene for quite some time, and with a tendency to sometimes evaporating for months on end, you might think I may have stopped eating. That could not be any further from the truth. As you may have noticed on some recent posts, I have only recently (*ahem … Read more
MFWF roundup – IGA World’s longest lunch 2012
A quick roundup on this Melbourne Food and Wine festival event attended by a 1200 strong crowd along the Yarra river… Weather: brilliantly sunny with a touch of breeze. We did have the occasional organic surprise in our cups from the trees above us (by that I meant leaves and twigs of course…). Salad of … Read more
Burch and Purchese – South Yarra
As part of my birthday celebrations, which eventually coalesced with a few other friends’ birthdays to form a massive week long binge, we trekked out to South Yarra after having a lazy breakfast at St Ali. Certainly for those of us, who had been following Master Chef, were incredibly excited. Entering into B&P is liking … Read more
Dainty Sichuan
176 Toorak Rd South Yarra 3141 03 9078 1686 It was a midweek evening, that I rushed frantically from work driving through traffic to arrive at this food blogger eat out. Parking, to my amazement, was quite easy to find. Pushing open the heavy door, one collides with the loud chatter of predominantly Chinese diners … Read more
Luxbite – cakefest
{Luxbite} 38 Toorak Road South Yarra, 3141 03 9867 5888 Not long following a satisfying macaron fix, a sugar-crammed-cake-fest was already in the making. In view of Luxbite being a relatively small space, it would not have been viably possible to fit in more than a small group of 10, so it was essentially first … Read more
LuxBite – macarons+++
38 Toorak Road South Yarra, 3141 03 9867 5888 After a wholly satisfying breakfast across the west side at Duchess of Spotswood with Thanh, we headed back east for a macaron fix at South Yarra. P.S. I haven’t forgotten writing about Duchess – good things come with time *ahem*. The traffic laden streets of Toorak … Read more
