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Posted in Breakfast, Melbourne CBD, Review: cafes, Reviews on Apr 7th, 2010
The other week, my fearless weekday breakfast buddies, Z & B had breakfast with me at Von Haus. Von Haus is a little tricky to find – its in Crossley St, situated behind the Paperback book store and diagonally opposite Italian institution Pellegrinis. The space is dark and quite masculine with heavy wooden furniture and [...]
Posted in Cafes, Lunch, Macarons, Melbourne CBD, Review: cafes on Mar 12th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Melbourne CBD, Review: cafes on Jan 8th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Cafes, Melbourne - East, Review: cafes on Nov 30th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Macarons, Melbourne CBD on Nov 12th, 2009
There has been a lot of macaron testing lately. Tasting Cafe Vue’s macaron was due to my lovely friend (and reader!) CC who noticed the macarons on offer when she bought her morning coffee and picked a couple up for me as a surprise. Purchasing the macarons she was confused when asked “what colour do you want?”, replying err “brown [...]
Posted in Macarons, Melbourne CBD on Nov 9th, 2009
Lindt’s champagne macaron and strawberry macaron So on the macaron trail I found myself at Lindt’s (relatively) new chocolate cafe in Collins Street. I side-stepped the display case filled with chocolatey goodness, headed up a couple of stairs and found myself in front of the macaron (or as they call them “delice”) counter. Lindt had [...]
Posted in Macarons, Melbourne CBD, Reviews on Oct 30th, 2009
It’s not all about macarons… Although, realistically there will be a lot of macaron-talk on this blog because frankly I am obsessed. Due to my wheat allergy, previous food popularity waves have passed me by (I couldn’t indulge in churros or cupcakes), but now the macaron is on the scene and it is gloriously wheat-free. As mentioned by [...]
