On my way to the Vic Markets this morning I was in dire need of a coffee. This hot weather has made it hard for me to keep my caffeine intake at the required level. Yesterday I grabbed an affogato from Cavallini on Queens Parade. I was too late for a “Toby Coffee”, but I [...]

On birthdays and special occasions we’ll often try to get to a “name” restaurant. We both like “dining out” and it gives us a chance to justify the “hang the expense” dining experience (and I get to overuse quotation marks). I suspect that habit will now change, and we will make Attica our destination of [...]

I can’t call them muffins as my religion forbids me, and these are just too good. They are destined for the lads in Accounts who have been working too hard in the lead up to the end of financial year, and I’ve been making a lot of that work for them. I think these are [...]

We popped in to Seven Seeds again this morning as promised. It is between my place and JB’s so we do drive past it fairly regularly.
Coffee was much better today – delicious in fact, and they has keen beavers chatting to folk as they came in the door, much improved.

But 10 mins for a take [...]

Where else can you order bottles of Parker 2003 Cabernet for $49 a bottle?
Griff’s wine pub has been quietly feeding the faithful for almost two years under it’s latest guise (let’s all try to forget about the Purple Turtle shall we?). On the corner of Johnston and Napier streets in Fitzroy, it’s a stylish and [...]

We’ve just started feeling the chill of winter, and the need for some heavier food. The Court House isn’t far away from us, and generally a tasty, easy-to-like, meal. I rarely feel like boring, pedestrian food (who does really?), but sometimes I do just want life to be a bit easier to deal with than [...]

“Whattya call this love?” – “Stew”
Feels like Lamb Shank night, and it was. Some lovely (but my aren’t they expensive now!) lamb shanks, two onions, half a bottle of decent cab and water to simmer with a muslin bag including tangerine peel, peppercorns, juniper berries, a cinnamon stick and three bay leaves. After an hour [...]