June 2008

The Funky Booze Bus challenge on blood splattered Fitzroy St

by Ed

The Funky Booze Bus challenge on Fitzroy St: see who can get the most drunk “prominent Melbourne nightclub owner Peter Iwaniuk labelled the meeting “deceptive and biased” and said he was angry that no hospitality industry representatives were asked to speak. He argued that many of the suggestions were ridiculous and said licensed venues were [...]

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First underground restaurants. Now underground biscuits

by Ed

Perhaps it’s the different rules of society and etiquette in Japan but it is a very strange place when you need an introduction to eat at a restaurant. I suppose London has a similar thing happening with its traditional Gentlemen’s Clubs. Then there is the more modern Milk and Honey in New York, and now [...]

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Eating vegetarian on the range

by Ed

Crispy anchovy bones “We’re in the country. What do we do now?” I needed advice but, of course, text didn’t even work on my increasingly dodgy Sony-Ericsson. There I was stuck, not knowing what to do with my trousers falling down. I still haven’t worked out why this keeps happening. I am wearing a belt [...]

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A new manifesto for meat eaters (and Bloggers meet version V)

by Ed

Mark Bittman makes a lot of sense on the need not to give up meat but eat less. In the New York Times (via Lifehacker) he outlines a manifesto for eating less meat on which I’ve put my own spin below. It’s also worth checking out Bittman on the excellent TED Talks. Meanwhile, with Confessions [...]

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Sex in the City and the Wine Room

by Ed

It was a close escape. About 300 women and two men packed into the foyer of the George last Sunday afternoon. I was saved from seeing Sex in the City and instead spent a few hours in the Melbourne Wine Room. Apparently, the change in clientelle there started the previous Thursday. First one Cosmopolitan, then [...]

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iPhoners of the world unite at Gills Diner

by Ed

For somewhere that is so difficult to find, Gills Diner is awfully busy. Blink or become distracted for even a moment and you’ll have missed the skinny Gills Alley. And two of the three people I have met there did just that, arriving late after circling the Elizabeth St end of Little Collins St. Perhaps [...]

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extrafood: the verdict?

by Ed

Everything just changed today if you read the newspaper food sections in Melbourne. Citystyle, which I wrote for and was half fashion/half food is no more. It was usually eight pages, although sometime three would be taken with fashion (which I never quite understood). It never was a match for the absurd F–die weekly Epicure, [...]