Bentleigh East
Merchants Guild
The south-eastern pocket of Bentleigh has been crying out for somewhere decent to eat. All of Bentleigh has, actually. It's this bizarre restaurant su...
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Camberwell
Prospect Espresso
Camberwell has long been a place of excitement and joy for me. In the early 2000s, I was drawn to its huge Sportsgirl and Chocolate Box. Now I go ther...
By Suburb
Cafe Lua
One of the things I love most about Australia and Melbourne in general is the multiculturalism. I mean, we didn’t really have much of a choice, did we...
Bayside
Blue Dish
Highett is to Hampton as Carlton is to Brunswick: it's not quite as hip, but it's catching up fast. The Highett shops have long been a conglomeration ...
Caulfield South
Fress
Caulfield South is surprisingly barren of decent breakfast spots. It has all kinds of other delicious food, but that morning poached egg is more elusi...
East
Spoonful
There is obviously some kind of spoonful of sugar making the medicine go down reference going begging here, but this really is the sweetest place in a...
East
Ora
Things everyone knows that I forgot: never head city-bound on the Eastern Fwy between the hours of 7:30am and 8:30am, don't park in 15 minute zones fo...
Restaurant
Duchess of Spotswood
Tongue. It’s a funny thing. Gene Simmons has an impressive one. Lots of speedy 20-somethings trying to prove how badass they are have piercings in the...
Ormond
Ormond Providore
Once upon a time, there was a piglet called Albert. He was an astute and ambitious fellow, and he decided that when he grew up, he wanted to be someon...
Footscray
Happy River Cafe
One night just recently my boyfriend went out with his mates and promised he wasn’t going to have a ‘big one’ and that he’d be home before midnight. T...
East
Tyranny of Distance
In my old(er) age, I find myself more frequently confounded by The Youth of Today. Sometimes people recommend places for me to eat, and I go there and...
East
hobba
You could be forgiven for thinking that hobba is actually somewhere you might take your car to be serviced. It has that small industrial feel that's u...
Armadale
Coin Laundry
Feeling flirty, I donned my best false eyelashes and colour blocking nail polish and headed to Coin Laundry, which had opened for 2012 since the last ...
Bayside
Judging Marcus Ryan’s Breakfast @ Phamish
It would be fair to say that comedian and Wonthaggi native Marcus Ryan is a man of few needs. For example, he sat at our table at Phamish barefoot and...