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Unblogged 2012: return visits that I loved

Posted by Almost Always Ravenous on December 14, 2012 · 2 Comments

In the days leading up to the end of 2012, I will shower you all with food envy from my infinite compilation of unpublished food photography. Once upon a time in the early days of this blog there was much enthusiasm to re-blog restaurants, but now return visits are partially sanctified opportunities to purely enjoy … Continue reading →

Category Brunswick, Fitzroy, French, Mediterranean, Modern Australian, Northcote, Photography, Seafood, South Wharf, Southbank, Yummy +2 · Tagged with akachochin, albert street, atlantic, cutler and co, dessert, food, melbourne, photography, Restaurant, review, the estelle

Brunch roundup (10 October): Cavallini, Red Door Corner Store, Maling room, Percy’s Aeroplane.

Posted by Almost Always Ravenous on October 10, 2012 · 5 Comments

A quick breakfast roundup. *Click to scroll down to: Red Door Corner Store, Maling Room, Percy’s Aeroplane. Or just start reading from Cavallini… [Cavallini] Where: 354 Queens Parade, Fitzroy North Contact: 03 9486 3883 Located near the northern end of Hoddle Street – a small pocket I don’t venture to often – this little café-bakery puts … Continue reading →

Category Breakfast, Canterbury, Coffee, Kew, North Fitzory, Northcote, Sandwiches / Subs · Tagged with breakfast, brunch, cafe, coffee, food, melbourne, restaurants

Brunch roundup – June 2012 (Proud Mary, Fandango, Pope Joan, L’atelier, Penny Farthing Espresso)

Posted by Almost Always Ravenous on June 21, 2012 · 2 Comments

Having just returned from another trip overseas, I am genuinely and horrendously … @#%&#$& behind. So get ready for an epic round up of brunch places I’ve visited in the past “many” months… Proud Mary, Fandango, Pope Joan, L’atelier, Penny Farthing Espresso. Also stay tuned for drool-worthy posts from EUROPE. *** [Proud Mary] Where: 172 … Continue reading →

Category Bakery, Breakfast, Collingwood, Dessert, East Brunswick, North Melbourne, Northcote, Yummy · Tagged with breakfast, brunch, french toast, melbourne, omelette

Merricote – a French briefing

Posted by Almost Always Ravenous on April 9, 2012 · 7 Comments

This is far from a real review, but rather a vague but very positive recollection of olfactory memories attached to these lick-a-licious photos… High street is jam packed with quirky little restaurants and cafe, and Merricote is certainly one of them. House made duck rillettes & crackers Triangle bites Mussels, anochovy, caperberry, brioche Tuna and … Continue reading →

Category French, Northcote, Yummy +1 · Tagged with french, griottines, lamb, Northcote

The Estelle – Scott Pickett’s newest venture

Posted by Almost Always Ravenous on September 25, 2011 · 16 Comments

Ever since I heard news that Scott Pickett had left The Point at Albert Park to run his own restaurant alongside Ryan Flaherty in a little shop front on High Street I had been eagerly at the edge of my seat to try it out. The Estelle, a name only two years old in Northcote, … Continue reading →

Category Modern Australian, Northcote, Yummy +2 · Tagged with melbourne, Northcote, pork, rhubarb, scott pickett, The Point