This post will not be subtle. My girlfriend and I walked into the Greek restaurant Alpha Ouzeri on Brunswick St and were barely able to waddle out after taking the $39 set menu challenge. Add a bottle of the very pleasant Darley pinot gris from Mornington Peninsula and you have an impressive meal for two for $120.…
Archive for the category: Eating out
breakfast at Grace cafe on Rose St
Grace cafe opened a bit over a week ago in one side of the small semi-detached cottages on Rose St covered in art. I arrived about 9.45am on Saturday for breakfast, when there was only one other occupied table, but within 20 minutes the place was full.…
lunch at Breakfast Thieves on Gore St
Breakfast Thieves on the corner of Gore and Rose streets opened a couple of weeks ago. I tried to go last weekend but they were full on Saturday morning and I was more successful on Tuesday at lunchtime.
While the breakfast side of the menu looks good I was more interested in some of the lunch dishes, including the ‘Ned Kelly’ – rosemary polenta with mushrooms and poached eggs.…
lunch at Martha Ray’s on Brunswick St
The space of the former shortlived Rhombus surf shop has become Martha Ray’s, a cafe serving coffee, all day breakfast dishes and delicious rolls such as this pork belly with cabbage and apple slaw (below). My friend and I slipped in for lunch just in time, as people flowed in immediately after us and the narrow space was soon completely full.…
brunch at Rustica Sourdough bakery cafe on Brunswick St
Before it became Rustica Sourdough bakery cafe, this building contained Pane Provinciale, then Itza cafe. Itza had once been good, but it suffered a drastic decline in the quality of its bread and cafe food, stopped baking, and finally became somewhere no one wanted to go to.…
breakfast pizza at Little Creatures on Brunswick St
I had breakfast yesterday at Little Creatures after having noticed their new breakfast menu recently. Their menu also contains something called ‘blunch’. Is that the same as ‘brunch’? The pizza, containing proscuitto, egg, cheese and spinach, is excellent but be warned the coffee is mediocre.…
dinner at Grumpy’s Green on Smith St
I’ve had a drink or two at Grumpy’s Green on Smith St in the past year but I don’t think I’ve eaten there since 2009. The crinkle cut chips are gone and the menu is very different, though still mostly vegetarian with a token meat page containing only a couple of dishes.…
more enormous lunch
After my mitraillette experience a week or so ago I accidentally had another enormous lunch on Brunswick St – this is the platter for two from Hooked: 4 pieces of fish, prawns, calamari, lots of chips and two sauces for $39.…
mitraillette at Le Cellier on Brunswick St
This is $13 of pure outrageousness – mitraillette is a roast beef and French fry baguette with bearnaise sauce. From Le Cellier on Brunswick St.
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