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Posted in Eating out gluten free, Fine dining, Restaurants, Victoria - Country on Jan 20th, 2011
Early last year, after hearing positive reports, Provenance in Beechworth was placed on our mutual wish list of ‘must visit’ restaurants. At that time, Saskia was in the final stages of PhD hell, and we decided that we would visit when the thesis was all said and done. Our trip to Beechworth was to be [...]
Posted in Melbourne - North, Review: restaurants on Apr 9th, 2010
Provenance in Collingwood (not to be confused with Provenance restaurant in Beechworth) opened in early 2009 and operates as an all day eating house and bar, with breakfast to dinner to cocktails on offer. From mid to late 2009 Provenance hosted a series of themed dinners with amusing titles (“quince this, quail that”, “something to [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures, Eating out gluten free, Fine dining, Lunch, Review: restaurants, Reviews, Victoria - Country on Mar 18th, 2010
So what has this: got to do with this? Answer: Garlic and a hell of a lot of it. For this year’s Melbourne Food and Wine Festival Sunnybrae hosted the Return of the Fearless Vampire Killers with a celebration of garlic in all its forms. Mr M has a thing for garlic, or more particularly, [...]
Posted in Melbourne - South, Review: restaurants, Reviews on Mar 5th, 2010
We recently headed across to St Kilda for a meal to celebrate my birthday and Mr M & Saskia’s brother, W’s birthday. W’s birthday fell on a Monday this year, always a tricky night to find a restaurant that is open. S suggested Cicciolina, the St Kilda institution adored by locals and frequented by regulars. Cicciolina is [...]
Posted in Casual & great, Melbourne - South, Restaurants, Review: restaurants, Reviews on Feb 1st, 2010
My friend (and fellow foodie) S remarked to me recently that, in her opinion, Isthmus of Kra offers some of the best Thai food in Melbourne. This is obviously a big call. A couple of weeks after that comment I headed there with S and some other friends for a girly night out so I [...]
Posted in Fine dining, Lunch, Review: restaurants, Victoria - Country on Jan 28th, 2010
Over the Australia day long weekend we headed down to Lorne for a few days. We decided to go on a little detour on our drive to Lorne and head to Loam, Drysdale which recently had a rave review from Larissa Dubecki in The Age. Now, I will admit that I have been less positive [...]
Posted in Fine dining, Queensland, Review: restaurants, Reviews, Something to share on Jan 20th, 2010
On our trip to Noosa we also enjoyed a lovely meal at Japanese restaurant Wasabi. I was particularly excited as the Gourmet Traveller had rated it as one of the best regional restaurants in Queensland. We arrived for our 8.30pm booking to a full but relaxed restaurant. The entrance to the restaurant (above) faces the [...]
Posted in Melbourne - North, Restaurants, Review: restaurants, Something to share on Dec 30th, 2009
My workplace has a wine club and we recently had an end of year function at St Jude’s Cellars. I won’t go into the details but it was quite a boozy evening, with 10 wines on the menu (2 sparkling, 3 whites, 4 reds and a fortified) – all that wine was supplemented with a [...]
