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Breadwell: (another!) great macaron

Posted in Review: cafes, Taste test: macarons, tagged , , , , , on 12 March, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Breadwell is one of a multitude of coffee shops situated right near my workplace.  A differentiator is its great selection of teas (including a pretty great chai if you are that way inclined). I recently noticed a new inclusion in the cakes cabinet – teeny tiny little macarons. Obviously they were calling for me to try them.
The other day [...]

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Little Cupcakes: I stand corrected.

Posted in Review: cafes, tagged , , on 8 March, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Happy Labour Day Melburnians! Hopefully you are having a relaxing time (perhaps recovering from the storms) but not spending the day gainfully employed.
So the other day I had a bit of a rant about the lack of gluten-free or wheat-free cupcakes in the city. After reading my post, my friend S delivered this little box of deliciousness [...]

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Hardware Societe: a mixed bag

Posted in Review: cafes, Taste test: macarons, tagged , , on 5 February, 2010 | 6 Comments »

I caught up with my friends Z & B for another mid-week, city breakfast. Z has become quite the fan of Melbourne Gastronome (aren’t we all?) so after reading the review of Hardware Societe, we decided we had to try it for ourselves.
Hardware Societe is situated on Hardware Street (not Lane!) in the city across [...]

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Breakfast at MoVida Terraza

Posted in Review: cafes, tagged , , , , on 8 January, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I recently caught up with friends B & Z for a pre-work breakfast at the brand new MoVida Terraza. After reading Melbourne Gastronome’s gushing review, I was very keen to try it for myself.
As per its name, the restaurant is on a terrace, situated at the back of an office block:

Looking through the menu, there were lots [...]

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Memories of food adventures past

Posted in Culinary adventures, Review: cafes, tagged , , , , , , on 17 December, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Yesterday’s post got me all nostalgic about that trip around Spain. I know, it was five years ago now so I should probably move on, but it was just a really fun adventure. I have been thinking about some food that we ate at La Boqueria market off Las Ramblas in Barcelona. At the time, I [...]

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Cafe Vue at Heide.

Posted in Review: cafes, Taste test: macarons, tagged , , , , , , on 30 November, 2009 | 2 Comments »

On Tuesday, it was frequented by the “glitterati” (which I am always dubious about in Melbourne – are we talking a couple of footballers and a weather girl?) by Saturday morning there were more staff than patrons and about half the patrons were under 5. Welcome to Cafe Vue at Heide!
I was keen to try [...]

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Berrylicious: Gentle Annie Berry Gardens & Tearooms

Posted in Review: cafes, tagged , , , , on 25 November, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I remember the first time I went berry picking. I was about 7 years old at the time and some family friends owned a blueberry farm (well, it wasn’t a farm, probably more accurately it was an acre or so of blueberry bushes at the bottom of their land). I was terribly excited to go [...]

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Avoiding Schoolies: Old Lorne Road Olives

Posted in Review: cafes, tagged , , on 24 November, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This weekend I (inadvertently) ended up at Schoolies in Lorne. To be honest, this isn’t the first time I have ended up gatecrashing the highschool end of year celebrations. The first time this happened we were driving into Lorne on a Friday night at about midnight. We were perplexed to see huge groups of teenagers [...]

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Cocktail night at Cafe Vue

Posted in Drinking, Review: cafes, tagged , , , , , on 4 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Cafe Vue offers Friday night cocktail nights – $75 for 5 cocktails with a matched course, with the menu changing monthly. I have a weakness for cocktails (which was honed on my recent honeymoon) and a love of Shannon Bennett’s food so cocktail night became a must do.

The theme for the October night was “Soirée au [...]

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