Hoboken is a cute cafe in what was half of bar Misty in Hosier Lane. They have a brief lunch menu of vegan friendly rice and beans, sandwiches and toasties, including this amazing mushroom, spinach and cheese toastie that was exactly what I wanted earlier this week on a rainy day.…
Monthly archives: September 2011
dinner at Kumo Izakaya on Lygon St East Brunswick
Reading the food menu on the Kumo website made me hungry. Their food, especially after I read Claire’s review on Melbourne Gastronome, sounded amazing and I wanted to eat it immediately. But reading their drinks menu made me nervous. They appear very expensive.…
a good question
I have repeatedly asked this myself – is this art? On Gertrude St.
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who’s cheating who in the Melbourne restaurant voucher economy
Once I started looking at the restaurant voucher issue in detail I realised that it is much bigger than I first thought. In this post I am going to focus on the behaviour of restaurants offering discount vouchers to customers via third party voucher publishers.…
statistics
This is unkind to vegans, illogical and stupid but somehow funny. On Brunswick St near the closed Old Colonial Inn.
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austere
On Fitzroy St just north of Johnston St.
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vet
The former garage or petrol station on Johnston St (between George and Eliott streets) is being redeveloped as a Vet, assuming that the sign and the animal artworks by Makatron can be taken literally.
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Yume on Brunswick St has closed
I initially liked Yume when I first visited back in 2009, but a couple of subsequent visits did not reinforce this positive first impression. The last review it received was scathing and it’s not the only one. A handwritten sign in the window that has not changed for a couple of weeks says ‘we are not going to open today’.…
vouchers and coupons for restaurants – you get what you pay for
After I posted a couple of months ago that L’Angolo Italian restaurant on Nicholson St had closed, a discussion developed in the comments about their use of discount coupons. I have a strong personal distaste of and aversion to the discount coupon or voucher offers proliferating online.…