The inside guide to eating and drinking in Melbourne. Since 2005.

DineSmart launches on November 14

The annual DineSmart fundraiser launches on Monday 14th November with an all day Big Dine Out, encouraging groups of four or more friends to eat out for breakfast, lunch or dinner at participating restaurants across Australia. Streetsmart is charity I put my support behind because it has no religious or political affiliations and helps small [...]

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The Brix: A taste of Paris in Fitzroy

Even though, the windows were covered and it hadn’t opened, I immediately liked the look of The Brix from the Moooi Pig Table to the Gerard O’Connor photo ( somewhere between an Earl Carter and a Marian Drew) and the chefs who possess enough tattoos to put a Russian prison to shame. The idea behind [...]

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Grain fed vs Grass fed beef dinner with Ron O’Bryan

strong>What: Beef tasting and education Chef: Ron O’Bryan When: Tuesday 20th September, from 7pm Where: The Vine Hotel  59 Wellington St (cnr Derby) Collingwood How much: $75 a person, including wine from Syrahmi and Foster e Rocco. Booking: Tickets are available via EventArc Cows eat grass, right?  Well yes, but beef raised for meat can [...]

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Q&A: Will you support Bread for Good?

Q: Hope you’re having a great Tuesday. I’m a big fan of your blog and just wanted to get in touch about an upcoming campaign you may be interested in. As part of Good Food Month, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald are encouraging restaurants to help make a difference for children affected by the [...]

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Check the Vue at Lui Bar

The view alone is worth it at the new Vue de Monde. Photo: Adriane Strampp In case you hadn’t heard,Lui Bar at Shannon Bennett’s new Vue de Monde at the top of The Rialto is open to all comers. And it is not only worth it for the drinks but the vue (view geddit?) of [...]

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A special vegan dinner with Nic Poelaert

What: A vegan dinner with Nic Poelaert of Embrasse and winemaker Neil Prentice When: Wednesday 7th September 2011 7pm Where: Embrasse, 312 Drummond St,Carlton Vic 3053 How much: $85 for five course and a shared carafe of wine. Additional wines available at a reasonably price. How to book: SOLD OUT Book here with Eventarc. Booking [...]

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Gourmet Traveller vs the people

What crazy things restaurant rankings are, eh? A small group of the same old people pretty much are the judges for all the local restaurant awards, whether it is Gourmet Traveller, which announced its Sydney-centric version this week, or The Age, which is next week. It’s a mad mad mad world when you factor in [...]

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Cheese is about to get a lot more tasty

Which of the above cheese aren’t you allowed to eat? If they were made from raw milk then none. But if proposals put forward by Food Standards ANZ (FANZ) go through only the hard and semi hard cheeses. And you won’t be able to buy (legally) raw milk altogether. The world is divided as to [...]

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Oysters, ethics and stout

Oysters, once the food of the people. Now if you are interested in various different varieties you’ll be paying up to $4 in restaurants.That’s nearly $50 for a dozen and in my opinion too much. I want to eat them but can’t afford to pay that much.So I will often will buy them at one [...]

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Truffles redux: an end of season reader dinner

What: Olifactory extravaganza redux: end of season truffle tasting dinner When: Monday 22 August, 7pm Where: The Estelle, Northcote How much: $85, including wine How many: 40 places How to book: The only way to book is to email me at dinner@tomatom.com I blame Bryan from Friend & Burrell, purveyor of fine ingredients to the [...]

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The Everleigh: ice cool on Gertrude St

For a very hot country, it is remarkable how little care we give our ice. Sure, you can buy large bags of ice pretty much anywhere, but it’s the kind of ice to stick in a bath or an Esky and chill beer and sauvignon blanc; not the kind of stuff to put in a [...]

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Inside Modernist cuisine

Check out on Youtube how the cutaways were made. Finally, $484.60 9including postage) and after a three month wait Modernist Cuisine has arrived. I’ve bought it so you don’t have to but also to add to my collection of books by Peter Barham, Herve This and Harold McGee that examine the science of cooking, as [...]

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Rapadura sugar, the best cake ever and the KitchenAid

Donna is the winner of Ed’s KitchenAid competition. She blogs at Donisbaked and here puts her shiny new machine, which was supplied thanks to Kitchenware Direct, a whirr. So me winning a KitchenAid is old news, but what is new is the pure pleasure using the machine at home is. I’m getting out all my [...]

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M. Truffe goes Willy Wonkers

M. Truffe: now open at 351 Lygon St (in addition to Smith St, Collingwood) It’s a dream come true, Thibault Fregoni aka Monsieur Truffe tells me. It’s the first day his new cafe and chocolate factory (351 Lygon St, near Blythe St, behind a red door but without any signage yet) is open and he [...]

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