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Posted in Eating out gluten free, Fine dining, Melbourne - South, Restaurants, Review: restaurants on Nov 4th, 2010
About a month ago (yes, bad blogger), on one of the first sunny days we headed to St Kilda for Sunday lunch for a family birthday. The brief was to find somewhere for a nice birthday lunch and Circa fit the bill perfectly with its Sunday lunch. For $65 per person ($110 with matched wines) [...]
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, Review: restaurants, Something to share on Feb 9th, 2010
On a cracking mid-week evening I crossed-town for dinner at Ichi Ni with my mother and friends R and A, to celebrate A’s recent engagement. I rarely make it over to St Kilda but it really was a magic night, with that crazily blue sky, the sun setting and people everywhere sitting outdoors enjoying a [...]
Posted in Lessons in food and drink on Nov 27th, 2009
I mentioned in an earlier post that I was given an ‘Introductory Wine Course’ at the Prince Wine Store for my birthday. This was, indeed, a very exciting gift. I have spent the past three Tuesday nights learning about wine – something which, although I drink a lot of, I know incredibly little about. The [...]
