Red velvet pancakes. Yes. That’s right. Forget ricotta and honeycomb or blueberry and maple – this bright red stack of hotcakes are where it’s at. Piled high with layers of fresh cream and strawberries, this dish is almost too pretty to eat. Almost. It’s the visual piece de resistance of new Ultimo café Local Mbassy. These...
On the weekend we want to be healthy, but not too healthy. We want a green smoothie but we might want pancakes too. Enter Duck Duck Goose, Randwick’s newest café. This is not your cookie cutter bacon and eggs joint. Nor is it another Eastern Suburbs superfood stop. It’s a little from Column A, and...
The north and the south sides of our fine city are two very different places. The cafes have a similar vibe to them depending on the side of the river that they pop up on, the staff and the clientele too. But Drugstore Espresso, which opened back in 2011, on Toorak Road in South Yarra...
When the market is your neighbour, it makes sense that the food on your plate is going to be made with the best produce and freshest ingredients going around, right? Seasonal produce, colourful ingredients, the best of flavours. We think so. And so do Proper & Son, the new café at the South Melbourne market. Eugene...
Good news people. You no longer have to go all the way to Bondi for a killer acai bowl! Brunch & Co is the new kid on the new “cool” block in Alexandria. Away from the crowds of The Grounds of Alexandria and the cramped hole in the wall cafes of Erskineville, this bright and...
Mr Mister. This new man in our lives is giving us another decision to make when choosing where to get our caffeine fix and plate of brunch. Opening just a few months ago, Mr. Mister Café on the busy Chapel Street in Windsor is joining the growing eating precinct. The space sees clean white walls,...
We like to eat at all times of the day here in Melbourne. We like our dumplings at 1am and we’ll happily peruse the breakfast menu at 4pm. Archies All Day knows this all too well, hence the name, and the fact that you can eat whatever is on the menu all day long. Including burgers...
Most cafés cook a lot of things on premises. This is common knowledge. They’re baking bread out the back, making in-house smoked meats, maybe even making their own take-home goods. But it’s rare you get a café that has an on-site cacao bean roaster. That’s right. The stuff that makes chocolate, people. This is where...
While we all start to think about whether we’ve been naughty or nice this year thanks to the looming arrival of Santa, we’re thinking about giving up trying to behave and making our way to Naughty Boy café, the newest foodie wonderland to land in Lygon Street, Princes Hill. Seems more fun than behaving ourselves, don’t you...
Heartattack and Vine, it’s not just the name of a Tom Waits song. It’s now also the newest all day bar and eatery in Carlton. Who do we have to thank for this? The team behind Wide Open Road and A Minor Place, Hootan Heyderi and Jono Hill and two of their long-term employees Nathen Doyle and Emily...
