If you love Greek sweets as much as I do, then you will also love Nikos Quality Cakes. It is a large cafe piled high with all the favourites. If Willy Wonka was Greek, this is what his cafe would look like! Rows of baklava, Greek doughnuts (loukoumades), shredded pastry with custard or nuts (kataifi), [...]
Hard as it is to believe, there was a time in Melbourne when wine was viewed as the drink of choice for alcoholics, and, even worse, communists!! The stereotype was men drinking beer, while women were confined to the ladies’ lounge sipping a shandy. Jimmy Watson bucked that trend. He opened his bar and bistro [...]
Munch, crunch, lunch! The Melbourne Food and Wine Festival is on again and bigger than Ben Hur. Spoil yourself with an Express Lunch. Perfect for those having a staycation! For $35, you are able to enjoy a 2 course meal and a glass of wine at some of Australia’s top restaurants in Melbourne. See the [...]
Something exciting is happening in Little Lon. For the first 100 years of Melbourne’s life, it was infamous as a “den of inequity” – reputedly bustling with prostitutes and opium. From 1948, a clean up of this “street of evil” followed and the area became, well, fairly boring. Melbourne institution Rue Bebelons started a change [...]
A Sydney photographer explores a different suburb of her city each week in the blog @52suburbs. She discovers a microcosm of the world in her own city. If you’re having a staycation in Melbourne, you can do the same. In this vein, I visited Bikaner Cafe in ‘Little India’, Dandenong. Named after a Rajasthani town, [...]
Do you ever get cabin fever? I find it sets in if I am at home for too long. It comes on suddenly and then I really need to get out – to somewhere I want to go, rather than somewhere I have to go. On a recent afternoon like that, I headed to [...]
We expected Harry Potter and his classmates to file into the dining room and take a seat at the long tables with their sturdy wooden chairs. However, if these wood panelled walls could talk, it would not be of wizardry, but of deals done and laws negotiated. We were at Parliament House, where all Victorian [...]
Fairfield Boathouse is a place where time appears suspended. Lazing on the picnic tables with the conversation of friends eddying about, I savour the sunny afternoon. Even the dalmatian at the feet of the neighboring table is sprawled out with his sleepy eyes resting above his front paws. My lazy mind drifts towards the waters’ [...]
Sitting cramped in my economy seat, and with many hours of flying left, I turned to the airline magazine to distract myself. There was a photograph of a luscious strawberry covered torte. I felt like biting into the photograph! I thought to myself, where is this place? I scanned the article. The answer was Hausfrau [...]
This is a story of a working collaboration between two women that spans more than a quarter of a century. Together, they are Maria’s Trattoria. One works front of house and the other back of house. They have been providing hearty Italian meals and a warm welcome to Melburnians for more than 25 years. This [...]
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