The last and final part to my epic food weekend at Taste of Melbourne...By Sunday evening (which dinner I skipped), I was on the verge of food overload (if ever there was such a thing, Sunday night it was)The lovely Smeg fridges which I always want but can never afford...Here's a message to Smeg... Please give me a free fridge.. I'd be so happy!! *sigh*... Wishful thinking...Because everyone had one, I took one too!... Seriously, the grooviest and coolest car.. the Ben & Jerry's mobile unit!A range of 4 flavours were on offer (1 huge scoop for 2 crowns!).... BARGAIN! ...
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The Carlton Veterinary Surgery invites you to our 'Pet First Aid' information night. Our team will educate you on how to handle common emergency situations. Date: Wednesday 22nd September 2010 Time: 7pm Venue: Carlton Vet Surgery, 603 Rathdowne St, Carlton North read more
It is with great sadness that we say adieu to Emma Sutton. Originally from Perth, Emma moved over to Melbourne in 2008. She started working at Brunswick Veterinary Clinic and then transferred to Carlton Veterinary Surgery. At Carlton Veterinary Surgery, Emma embraced our customer service programs such as Puppy Pre-School, Petpep and Kitten Adoptions. In surgery, Emma often graced us with interesting and different music. read more
Third post of my Taste of Melbourne 2010 fun is mostly about sitting in for Nicolas Poelaert's Taste Kitchen and trying his menu at the pop-up restaurant of the day, Embrasse!The crowd was starting to build up 30 minutes before the scheduled cooking class was meant to begin...The list of Chefs that were participating in the Australia Gourmet Traveller Taste KitchenRegal Pure Indulgence, being one of the sponsors provided... The guests with a delicious king salmon hors d'oeuvres*nom nom nom*There were many seats kept "reserved" for VIP guests (who paid extra), but people weren't following orders and were seating on ...
I assumed Ying Thai 2 must be good because it is always busy, but did not realise how many people love eating here. Compared to every neighbour on Lygon St, they have fewer spare tables and more customers for lunch each day. It gives you confidence when going somewhere new for the first time to see so many enthusiastic diners around you. I ordered one of the lunch special – tender pork on rice with green vegetables (mostly hidden under the pork in the photo below) and awesome chilli sauce that worked so well with the rich meat. Delicious and good ...
Part II of my Taste of Melbourne Post concentrates on the majority of the dishes we had whilst working our way through the throng and bustle of the crowd... this is not counting all the other freebies of alcohol, cheese, lamb, chocolate etc...maze Restaurant & maze GrillBecause we've already been to Maze when they first opened in Melbourne, we were curious to their new menu (well the Boy was more so than I)...It was disappointing that not many of the head chef's were around and we didn't get to see Josh EmmettCured Marlborough king salmon with sweet corn, chorizo and ...
When the Boy and I heard that the Taste of Melbourne would be making it's rounds again this year, we got super excited and bought tickets really early on... and receiving 30 crowns (the denominations used for food in the event/festival) for 5 dollars less...For the uninitiated, $1 = 1 crown and you can only use crowns to purchase food/drinks/items in there (although I did hear a lady ask the Nando's seller, "Do you take cash?" To which he responded, "Yes and I also take tips!")Thinking that we would be assayed once again with the BIG names and BIG guns ...
It seemed that every foodie brought their taste-testing appetites to the Royal Exhibition Buildings this weekend for the four days of Taste of Melbourne (26-29 August). The Taste festivals in Melbourne and Sydney are a chance for diners to create their own tasting menu from the selection of dishes offered by some of the city’s well-known restaurants. This year the Melbourne restaurants included oldies like The European and Stokehouse alongside newbies like Le Traiteur and maze. The idea is that you pay for entry ($27.50) and then you have to pay extra for ‘crowns’, the currency of the festival, which you ...
Our first visit to new local cafe What About Food had been reasonably successful, so at a loose end a week later we decided to go back for a second look. Things seemed to be running a bit more smoothly after a week of practice and the addition of printed menus meant we didn't have to crane our necks to read the blackboard.Cindy went for something a little more breakfasty this time around with poached cardamom apple and pear, topped with macadamia nut crumble and served with mascarpone ($11.50).This breakfast crumble was top-notch. It was more fruity dessert ...
Help me Doctor!: We are in Melbourne for a long weekend next week and want to fit as many great eateries in as possible. Can you suggest ones that serve smaller dishes so we can visit more than one a night/day/meal? Thanks – Louise Your prescription: Hi Louise, great to hear that you’re planning your Melbourne eating in advance :–) My suggestions for eateries that serve small dishes (all of which I’ve reviewed except the last one): MoVida Aqui Izakaya Den Cutler & Co (Front bar, not restaurant) Auction Rooms Shark Fin House Old Town Kopitiam Cumulus Inc (dinner menu) Peko Peko Yu-u (dinner menu) Anada Markov Place Mamasita Hope that helps! - Jetsetting Joyce
While we still don't know who will be our Prime Minister, one thing is clear - the Greens have been the big winners in this election.Adam Bandt, Sarah Hanson-Young, Bob Brown and Richard Di Natale. Photo: AAPHere in the seat of Melbourne, Adam Bandt won his party's first ever lower house seat (in a general election) with a massive 13% increase in the Green primary vote (to a total of 36%) and a 10% swing from Labor to Greens two-party-preferred. Nationally the Greens gained about 11.5% of the primary vote, an increase of almost 4% from last election, by far ...
This is the downside of my bird's-eye-view coffee photos: the iPhone occasionally gets confused when it is horizontal and thinks it should switch to portrait. iPhoto didn't seem to want to rotate it either. It's time like this that I think I should be putting so much faith in so many iThings.
Oh get the hell out of here. I'm nineteen posts behind?! How did that happen? As I'm sure you'll understand, I'm having trouble remembering what my strong latte from North was like last Friday. I imagine it was good. I'm pretty sure I woke up with no milk or coffee in the house, and went out to find both. Preferably in one cup.So, uh, not a particularly interesting post. I'd better move on. Eighteen to go...
Tuesday 28 September 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Funny man and writer Tony Wilson is back with his second novel Making News. This is a darkly funny and revealing story about today’s celebrity culture, invasion of privacy and the machinations involved in creating a smutty story for the masses. Join us for a laugh and really quite a big gossip session. Free, but please book on 9347 6633 or by email.
Wednesday 29 September 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Join us for the launch of Neil Cole's Colonel Surry's Insanity. This is the story of John Surry, a solicitor and former Colonel in the Second World War, who pleads Not Guilty to taking money from his client's trust account on the grounds that he was insane at the time he committed the offence with manic depression. When he is found Not Guilty he is sent to psychiatric prison. The story chronicles a man of who has enormous mood swings during the war and after. It is set against the backdrop of conscription of soldiers for the ...
Thursday 30 September 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053The bird king, the anthropologists, the thing in the bathroom, the paraffin-oil koala. What do they all have in common? Nothing! Except that they all inhabit the unique world of renowned artist, author and illustrator Shaun Tan. Collected in this journal, The Bird King and other Sketches for the first time are his illustrations for stories that never developed, observational studies, preliminary drawings for books, films and theatre, and random doodles from Shaun’s working sketchbooks. Together with commentary by the artist, they offer a special insight into the imagination of one of Australia’s most celebrated storytellers, the internationally ...
Surrounded by franchised fast food and Japanese, Chinese and Malaysian places, Mark’s Place in Carlton is something of a cultural anachronism opposite the University of Melbourne. It makes large cheap old school thick crust pizzas and other Italian food, and is decorated with Australian sporting memorabilia. Given the trend for thin crust pizza (Bimbo’s, Ladro, Supermaxi etc) the pizzas are as out of fashion as the decor, but that does not mean it’s bad. I’ve tried the capricciosa, which was exactly as you would expect, and the volcano (below, hot salami and lots of chilli), which was good. On a cold ...
I ATE SOMETHING DIFFERENT!! Simon and I shared the avocado tempura (not pictured) which was delicious as usual and seems to be the thing corriander haters can get on board with! Feeling gross and bloated from a weekend of pigging out on wheat I decided to get the Shakahari salad a mixture of steamed and raw vegies with brown rice and an apple flavoured satay sauce. This was absolutely delicious and perfectly balanced. Dessert I can never go past the tofu crème caramel, it wasn’t its best this time the tofu wasn’t as perfectly held together it crumbled into runny ...
Monday 20 September 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053In celebration of the Royal Melbourne show we bring a little of the magic into our own shop with a celebration of Shirl and the Wollomby Show. This is a fun picture book that reminds us all of the excitement of the show! Free, but please book on 9347 6633 or by email.
Tuesday 21 September 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Join us for the launch of Ravi Roy and Manfred Steger’s book Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction. In its heyday during the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm stretching from the Anglo-American heartlands of capitalism to the former communist bloc all the way to the developing regions of the global South. At the dawn of the new century, however, neoliberalism has been discredited as the global economy, built on its principles, has been shaken to its core by a financial calamity not seen since the dark years of the 1930s. So is neoliberalism ...
Wednesday 22 September 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Join us for the launch of Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia. This book explores the role of language in the greater 'civilising' project of the British Empire through the dissemination and reception of, and challenge to, British English in Australia during the period from the 1840s to the 1940s. This was a period in which the art of oratory, eloquence and elocution was of great importance in the empire and Joy Damousi offers an innovative study of the relationship between language and empire. Her findings reveal the central role of voice and pronunciation in informing ...
Thursday 23 September 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Ross’s latest novel Wasted is the true story of Jim McNeil – a man jailed for armed robbery who would become one of the most important Australian playwrights of the twentieth century. When he wrote his first play, McNeil had never set foot in a theatre. Just four years later he was a celebrity, freed ten years early thanks to David Marr, Katharine Brisbane and a powerful group of Sydney's elite, who declared him one of the country's most important writers. Ross Honeywill met Jim McNeil after he was released from prison and has long wanted ...
Monday 13 September 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Our regular celebration of the very best poets and their work in Melbourne with Alan Loney, TT.O and Javant Biarujia. Alan Loney has published eleven books of poetry and several books of prose. TT.O has been writing poetry for over 40 years. His new and selected poems is Big Numbers. Javant Biarujia has published three books of poetry as well as several chapbooks, and has been widely anthologised. He was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year and his latest book is Pointcounterpoint.
Tuesday 14 September 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand edited by Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis will be launched by Tony Coady, from the University of Melbourne. This book has over 280 contributors, including a superb 'shout' from Graham Priest. Fantastic resource for many. Free, no need to book.
Wednesday 15 September 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Toni Jordan will launch Bereft by Chris Womersley, a searing gothic novel of love, longing and justice, Bereft is about the suffering endured by those who go to war and those who are forever left behind. It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train travel is severely restricted. There are rumours it is the end of the world. In the NSW town of Flint, Quinn Walker returns to the home he fled ten years earlier when ...
