We have a secret dear readers, we’re into fashion. Who isn’t? That feeling you get when you make a new purchase, the outfits that take form in your minds hours before you wear them. Ok, this may not be much of a secret. But you get the point. Another good point is that Virgin Australia...
Author: Amy Collins (Amy Collins)
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Ocean Soul Retreats Now Taking Bookings
Do you ever feel like you want to escape the daily grind? Just for a week? Schedules keep us tied down, meetings all start to roll into one, and sometimes (mostly all the time) you want to swap those work shoes for bare feet. We reckon escaping to Bali for seven days is sounding pretty...
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Adriano Zumbo Does High Tea
Melbourne loves a crazy reinvention of the standard. Cocktails with fat washed ingredients, haloumi crumbs, freeze dried anything. So it’s no surprise everyone is getting excited for Adriano Zumbo’s latest venture Fancy Nance, set to open any day now. Zumbo is known for taking something great then making it kooky and supersized in flavour and level...
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Shifty Chevre, Stuff of our (Gooey, Cheesy) Dreams
Cheese dreams are some of our favourite dreams, which is why we were so keen when Shifty Chevre opened on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy. A cheese bar and café is a title we wish we could give our homes, which is where the team behind this one Tom Petty, Noemie Lacoste and Alex Whyte, got...
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The Heritage Listed Hub at Swan Street Chamber of Commerce
Swan Street is becoming the place to be. New restaurants are popping up every day, and Richmond couldn’t be more part of the action.The Swan Street Chamber of Commerce (SSCOC) pop-up is getting itself among all of the action. Found in a heritage-listed former bank, the space is getting its name from those who used...
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Four Cookbooks to Fill the Shelves Right Now
Cookbooks are the kinds of books you can enjoy for a moment at a time or for hours on end. You pick them up, check an ingredient before diving into the kitchen, or cuddle up with them for hours on the couch with a cup of tea and a mind open to inspiration. If...
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5 Days of the Most Beautiful Flowers You’ve Ever Seen
The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show is back. But this isn’t just any year; this is the year the show turns 20. And we think that’s a pretty neat number to be turning. Held at the heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, the event spans five days from Wednesday March 25 to Sunday...
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There’s Wine on Tap at Rupert on Rupert
The back streets of Collingwood are known for industrial buildings, warehouses filled with discount clothes, creative offices, and now Rupert on Rupert, the northside’s newest bar from husband-and-wife team Ric and Mali Corinaldi. The open, light, and greenery filled space is a nice change from the ever popular small bars scattered around our humble city....
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Addict Food & Coffee, Curing What Ails Us
A corner space on the busy Johnston Street, just shy of Smith Street is the perfect location for a café, you agree, yes? Well, owners Greg Brassil and Joe Ventura who opened Addict Food & Coffee last year thought as much. It took them two years to find the space, but we think it was worth...
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Our Guide to Eating & Drinking in Richmond
Richmond is proving itself more every day as one of the top eating and drinking precincts in Melbourne. Everywhere you turn there is a new place popping up, and choice is starting to get overwhelming. We’ve hand picked 10 of our favourite places to hit up when hunger and thirst strikes. Nutrition Bar For a...