There are times when you want really good quality food made with stunning produce. Yet you don’t want to deal with the stuffiness of fine dining and the often kid alienating situation of a nice restaurant. Woodland Kitchen & Bar, just opening in Neutral Bay is here to help us with this exact conundrum. Brought...
Author: Amy Collins (Amy Collins)
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Some places are here for the long haul, and some are just here for a good time, not a long time. Place Holder on Smith Street is the latter. Neometro’s Number Nine Smith Street gallery – Slopes which is run by Utopian Slumps‘s Melissa Loughnan, is the lucky spot that will house this new...
Yoga’s Finest Joins Bikram Fitzroy for one Night
Yoga is going from strength to strength here in Melbourne, pardon the pun. Whether it’s reformer, or an old school mat class, nearly all of us have made it to a studio once or twice. If you’re looking to try your hand at Bikram Yoga, the hot and sweaty kind, the people at Bikram Fitzroy are...
Charlie’s Dumplings
Melbourne has an intimate relationship with dumplings. Well, we know we do. And now there’s a new kid on the dumpling block to cosy up to. Meet Charlie’s Dumplings. Tucked into High Street Prahran, the tight space has been designed by renowned architects DC Group & Newline Design. Executive Chef Dylan Roberts, who we remember...
Drink your way through St Valentine’s Day in 2014
St Valentine’s Day is upon us again. Either it makes you all warm and fuzzy and evokes images of flowers and chocolate or is makes you feel a little ill with all the mushy stuff in the air. Regardless of how this day makes you feel, we’ve got a few liquid events that will keep...
Hellenic Museum presents Summer Cinema
We love outdoor cinemas here in Melbourne. This is true. Now we can add the Hellenic Museum to the list of places to watch movies outdoors this summer. From February 1 to March 1 soak up the last of the summer nights with different movies screening every Saturday. Taking place in the museum’s private garden...
Home Delivery gets Really Tasty
Everything is online these days, and why should that exclude your groceries and your food? With home delivery, convenience has to come with quality, so we’ve trawled a few of our bookmarks for places we click to when we’re low on culinary supplies. Butler & Bentley Butler & Bentley is an online artisan grocer. Essentially...
The Press Club is back
George Colambaris and his merry men seem to be everywhere at the moment. Jimmy Grants, Gazi, Hellenic Republic number two and now The Press Club returns to the Melbourne dining scene. So what has changed from the old to the new press? The space has been brought right back, with an intimate 10 tables making...
Hellenic Republic Opens in Kew
Hellenic Republic has been feeding us for a while now. If you’re anything like us, you’ve had dreams about that grain salad. And now, there is more of a good thing to go around. Hellenic Republic has opened it’s second venue in Kew, where St Katherine’s once stood. While there was a fire in the...
Farewell to Jacques Reymond, hello to Woodland House
Remember those times when you’d sit eagerly on the phone, waiting to see if Jacques Reymond had a table available? Whether you do or don’t remember this feeling, it will never happen again. After years of sitting at the top of the Melbourne restaurant food chain and after almost three decades running the loved restaurant,...