Fitzroy restaurants :

NOT: Retro Cafe, 413 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

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Despite living close to Brunswick Street, it’s actually been a while since I went for a weekend stroll down the strip. So when a friend visiting from interstate suggested we have lunch there on a sunny Sunday, I couldn’t think of[...]

HOT: Charcoal Lane, 136 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

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You know that Charcoal Lane is a different sort of restaurant as soon as you walk through the handsome heavy black doors. At the entrance these words mark the wall: You are part of a unique and exciting program of Mission Australia, in[...]

HOT: Roundhouse Roti, 220 Gertude St, Fitzroy

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Roti is the flavour of the month for me (see my review of Old Town Kopitiam Mamak ) so I was delighted to discover a Malaysian style roti joint close to home. Roundhouse Roti has been open for a couple of months and is run by a young[...]

HOT: Huxtable Restaurant, 131 Smith St, Fitzroy

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I’ve been watching the progress of Huxtable with interest, and when it opened a few weeks ago the views to the inside through the full window frontage enticed me enough to try it out on Sunday night. Huxtable have been very smart[...]

HOT: Soul Food Cafe, 273 Smith St, Fitzroy

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How many vegetarian establishments can one street sustain? Quite a few it seems, if you operate on Smith Street. Slowly, I’ve managed to tick off my list Trippy Taco , Las Vegan and Friends of the Earth . As I was feeling a bit[...]

NOT: De Los Santos, 175 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

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De Los Santos is an old Fitzroy stalwart, back before the days Spanish food became the hippest cuisine in town. Frankly, I don’t think it’s the best Spanish food in the city – that award goes to MoVida Aqui (and the[...]

HOT: Cafe Rosamond, Rear/191 Smith St, Fitzroy

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Cafe Rosamond is a hole-in-the-wall cafe housed in literally two small rooms, and at 10am on a sunny weekday morning I discovered that many of the artsy skinny-jeans crowd of Fitzroy/Collingwood (who are these lucky people? what do they do for a[...]

HOT: Cafe Rosamond, Rear/191 Smith St, Fitzroy

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Cafe Rosamond is a hole-in-the-wall cafe housed in literally two small rooms, and at 10am on a sunny weekday morning I discovered that many of the artsy skinny-jeans crowd of Fitzroy/Collingwood (who are these lucky people? what do they do for a[...]

NOT: Rice Queen, Level 2, 231 Smith St, Fitzroy

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As an ?oriental?, I was intrigued by the concept of an ?oriental diner?? I mean, what?s ?oriental? food exactly? The menu at Rice Queen appears to cover the gamut of a whole eating continent, from Japanese to Chinese, Sri Lankan to Thai.[...]

HOT: Yong Green Food, 421 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

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What do you eat when Melbourne turns on consecutive days of 30+ temperatures and it’s too hot to cook? Other than icecream, how about trying out some raw food? Raw food is a lifestyle promoting the consumption of uncooked,[...]