On a recent Sunday a friend and I confessed to each other about our occasional fish and chips craving, and I remembered that Ink seafood restaurant now has a casual front bar with eat in or take away fish and chips. We stepped over the border (Alexandra Parade) and ordered a piece of plump battered rockling, tender chili pepper squid, prawn fritters and a medium chips, which was more than enough for two. At $23 it was good value for top quality fish as well as being totally delicious!…
Archive for the category: Alexandra Parade
Fitzroy history – from shoes to office products
The photo below from 1980 shows the British United shoe manufacturing company on Alexandra Parade, Fitzroy. Now the building houses a company that sells office products. This example of the changing business landscape is typical in showing a transition from manufacturing to retailing in Fitzroy.
Courtesy of Fitzroy local history photograph collection / ID: 19049 / photographer: unknown / copyright: Fitzroy library owns image / used under the fair dealings provisions of the Copyright Act 1968
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Egypt in Fitzroy
This large work is on the wall of a laneway that is the closest parallel laneway west of Brunswick St between Cecil St and Alexandra Parade.…
$5 pizza at the new Royal Derby Hotel
During 2008 the Royal Derby Hotel on the corner of Brunswick St and Alexandra Parade has been closed for a complete makeover. It opened on 25 October (I was away and unable to attend the opening party) and I went in a few days later to see the interior and to sample the $5 pizzas.
My first impression of the pizza is that it is good with potential to improve. Like Bimbos, the pizzas are not large but are of a good quality.…
Yarra Council invites public to swimming pool 100th anniversary
I’m in shock. The City of Yarra has actually invited the public to an anniversary celebration. What are they thinking? In contrast to the exclusive and exorbitant celebration of Fitzroy’s 150 anniversary, to which the public was not invited, this time we have been invited to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Fitzroy swimming pool on 19 October 2008. Make sure you come along and get a sausage at the free BBQ to get something back from the rates you pay them each year.…
Ink seafood restaurant
Ink seafood restaurant (single page site only, no menus Update 24 July 2008 – Ink now have a beautiful looking website with menus) is located on the corner of Alexandra Parade and Rae St in the southern border of North Fitzroy. Alexandra Parade divides Fitzroy and North Fitzroy and is not the greatest location for a restaurant – several lanes of constant traffic, no other entertainment venues on the same block and little passing foot traffic compared to Brunswick St or St George’s Rd.…