Corner of Grattan and Swanston Sts; 03 9347 0474Mark's is a great option for a cheap feed, close to the CBD. Most of the pizzas are around $8-9 for a medium size (example below). There's a set menu of course (with selected extras, including chilli and parmesan, at no extra charge), the option to create your own, as well as blackboard specials. The set menu is quite generic - margherita,
Archives for November, 2007
or something. One excellent election night show: Mink Jaguar at Pony, with a few othersOr another- the return of Sixfthick over at the East Brunswick Club The choice is yours.Personally, I'd prefer to be down at the beach with Mirka Mora. It looks like a lot of fun.She has great taste in swimwear, that's for sure.
Since being gluten-free, and also being very sensitive to MSG, I’ve found Chinese and Japanese foods to be mostly off-limits. Particularly due to their love of soy sauce, which almost always contains wheat. However, I was very thrilled to find out at a family dinner that many of the yum cha items at the Oriental Tea House are in fact gluten free - including some of their dumplings! And they were so delicious. I loved the Honey Pepper Eye Fillet Steak and the Chicken dumplings the most. The staff were very helpful - you need ...
Chamber of HorrorsA welcome return of Brian Lipson’s multi-layered theatrical extravaganza. His one man show that sets out to be a piece about the 19th century social-scientist Francis Galton but which turns into and fantasia on the nature of theatrical performance is as funny as it is fascinating. Galton is best remembered as the founder of Eugenics. In his time (the second half of the 19th century, Galton died in 1911, the same year as that other great English satirist W.S. Gilbert) his theories were considered cranky like Phrenology and all those other pseudo-sciences. Only the connection ...
Next week the MTC is running its sixth annual Hard Lines Play Reading Program, presenting selections from four new plays by Peter Houghton, Felix Nobis, Dina Ross and Nic Velissaris. It's the final play-reading overseen by associate director Julian Meyrick, who has coordinated the MTC's writers' development arm since in 2002.Meyrick is leaving the company at the end of this year to assume a
60 Hardware Lane, Melbourne; 03 9670 9939Hardware Lane is an unusual part of Melbourne. Diners accustomed to blithely opening unmarked doors, scurrying down hidden staircases and striding fearlessly along laneways to reach fabled restaraunts are, in this part of town, suddenly confronted by maitre d's making themselves, and the restuarant, as conspicuous as possible. There are some pretty
Band: The Killers with supports Howling Bells and Louis XIVVenue: Rod Laver ArenaDate: 14th November 2007Reviewed By: Lyn. Photograph by Mark Geisel.Tonight I saw San Diego ’s coolest new band, Louis XIV. A harmonised, dark eyed, sultry 6 piece all bloke band that formed in 2003. American garage rock!A violin was a nice change in a band and the backing singer Brian Karscig has an amazing voice, very melodic, almost to the point of sounding feminine. Not to say the lead singer, Jason Hill, wasn’t good - he was a rock dude, going off like a raw prawn out ...
The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux, adapted by Maurice J. Valency, directed by Simon Phillips. Designed by Stephen Curtis, lighting design by Toby Sewell, composer Ian McDonald. With Melinda Butel, Mitchell Butel, Melissa Chambers, Julie Forsyth, Francis Greenslade, Sam Hryckow, Sue Ingleton, Bert Labonte, Alex Menglet, Stephen Phillips, Grant Piro, Greg Stone, Magda Szubanski and Kerry
Sound (and screen)Live experimental soundscapes, and soundtrack projectionsfrom the 2007 Sound graduatesSchool of Art RMITTuesday 20 NovemberDoors 8pm, performance 8:30pm$5at the Toff In TownSecond Floor Curtin House252 Swanston StreetCity
I love baked foods; pastry is delightful and whatever sweet or savory things it contains must be good. Yesterday I found Commercial Bakery on the corner of a laneway off Little Collins St. For lunch I had their bacon, mushroom and onion tart, and it was perfectly delicious. The Commercial Bakery has already been enthusiastically blogged about by the Melbourne Gastronome, the Breakfast Blog and A Few of My Favourite Things. Fitzroyalty - hyperlocal news and reviews about Melbourne's first suburb: Fitzroy 3065 by Brian Ward is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License.
I love going to the Forum Theatre. The interior is majestic but also strange and almost spooky with the lighting and the Roman statues. It has a shabby elegance about it. The photos were taken without flash and have not been altered. I wanted to capture the richness of the light as the eye sees it. Fitzroyalty - hyperlocal news and reviews about Melbourne's first suburb: Fitzroy 3065 by Brian Ward is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License.
85 Franklin StreetMelbourne(03) 9662 1474FoodIndonesian Cuisine. The reason I wanted to try this restaurant is that Bali Bagus had a stall at Albert Park Lake for the Indonesian fun walk recently. The food from their little stall on the day was very unusual and funky delicious. We had sweet little jellies with coconut and sticky rice, and rendang pie. I was very keen to try the restaurant when they displayed their business cards there. Unfortunately the restaurant was a bit of a let down compared to their little stall at the fun day. It was mostly bay marie food and ...
Regular visitors to Queen Victoria Market will know that Melbourne's famous 'wet' produce market has varied moods and a changing tempo depending on the day and time of visit. On a few of our trips there, even on a weekend, the market can be strangely subdued, with its displays of fruits and vegetables looking disappointingly past their best and the seafood trays uninspiringly stocked with little
