Winter well-and-truly struck Melbourne last week.  It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a “proper” winter, cold and drizzly, requiring stew and stodge to keep the inner fires burning.
Last Sunday I wanted a cup of tea and a pikelet or  two.  Warm liquid, a delicious stodge! While I was mixing up a batch, I [...]

It’s been a few months now since Rita Micali’s new venture, Supermaxi, opened it’s doors.  I’ve been back a few times now, so lets have a look beyond first impressions. I’ve dined alone at the bar, with a friend a couple of times and with a group including children.

Sunday arvo in the city and we had paused in our shopping for a cold iced coffee (Journal and not bad, not too sweet, good espresso flavour). I checked my twitter stream and read that Old Town Kopitiam’s new outpost in QV was open for business. It’s a bit dull bite-wise in the [...]

Every time we go to Donnini’s I ask myself why we don’t get here more often. I guess we take them for granted, but are thankful for their commitment to good food on a street that has a mistaken reputation for good food.

For a bit of a special treat, we decided to visit Embrasse, which has been “on the list” for a while now, but you know, Mugaritz and Paris got in the way! (darn them!).
I’ve never been a real fan of the site Embrasse occupies in Drummond street, not now, and not when it was Mrs [...]

North Melbourne Primary School now hosts a “Farmers Market” on the first Sunday of the month. I missed out on the last Abbotsford Convent market, so was kinda hankering for a market morning – and the boy lives walking distance to this one, so I was quite looking forward to it.
I do hope this [...]

Have you even eating Holy Goat cheese? Perhaps you have run into Anne Marie and Carla selling it at one of the Farmer’s Markets around Melbourne?
They are opening their farm in Sutton Grange as a slow food event.
“Ever wondered how a certified organic dairy goat farm, with cheese production, really works? This slow food event [...]

I’ve eaten at Adrian Richardson’s Carlton Institution many times, but I’ve only had the steak once before. I generally get tempted by the kid or the suckling pig well before I get to the steak list.
But, tonight I was on a mission, to eat steak. That doesn’t quite explain while all three of my companions [...]

I’m cleaning out the freezer and so the plan today was to cook chicken. I defrosted some Lilydale breasts and some wonton wrappers (the crap that accumulates!).
The Gasworks Farmers’ Market brought us baby leeks and coriander to round out the filling, and the Prahran Market Tour from a few weeks ago turned up some chicken [...]

I was sent this photo along with the comment “Oops – forgot to take a ‘before’ shot”.
Hmmm….yes – I get unsolicited food photos. Yes – they sometimes aren’t technically of food!