Melbourne dining :

Ethel & Fred's Entree Restaurant - 3016 W. New Haven Ave West Melbourne, FL

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Drop into Ethel & Fred's Entree Restaurant for good times and great food. The restaurant is a neighborhood favorite, and offers a casual, friendly dining atmosphere that you and your friends are sure to enjoy. Ethel & Fred's Entree Restaurant[...]

NOT: Number 8 Restaurant and Wine Bar, Crown Melbourne, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

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It’s sad when an old favourite falls from favour. Such is the case with my recent visit to Number 8 . Before I start, I should emphasise that I spent a lot of time thinking about whether to give it a HOT or NOT. It seemed unduly harsh to[...]

HOT: Little Creatures Dining Hall, 222 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

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Most people know of Little Creatures through their beer, so it’s great to see this WA-based boutique brewery branch out into a natural partnership of Little Creatures beer served with good pub grub in Melbourne. The Little Creatures[...]

HOT: Dining with Davids, David?s Restaurant, 4 Cecil Place, Prahran

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David \d(a)- vid\ is pronounced DAY-vid . It is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is “beloved”. Biblical: one of the most remarkable personalities in the Scriptures. David was a shepherd, musician, poet, soldier, statesman,[...]

NOT: Bokchoy Tang, Level 2, The Crossbar Building Federation Square, Cnr Flinders & Swanston Sts, Melbourne

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Bokchoy Tang is a contemporary high-end Chinese restaurant which holds a prime position facing Federation Square and ACMI. The long narrow restaurant is impressively decked out in expensive-looking cabinets and feature tables, and a window[...]

HOT: Nuffnang Food Bloggers Dinner, Collins Kitchen, Grand Hyatt, 123 Collins St, Melbourne (Part 1)

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There are definitely some advantages to writing about food obsessively. Nuffnang is a blog advertising community which brings advertisers and bloggers together so that advertisers can target their products to blog readers and bloggers can make[...]

Lunch at Coda

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Fellow bloggers and tweeters have been enthusing about Coda of late so I was delighted when the family invited me there for lunch to celebrate my umpteenth birthday. Chef Adam D?Sylva, The Age Good Food Guide' s 2008 Young Chef of the Year, was[...]

HOT: Attica, 74 Glen Eira Rd, Ripponlea

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Most of my friends are pretty keen foodies, and amongst my closest posse we?ve developed a tradition to spend an inordinate amount of money on birthday dinners*. Kind of a gift for the birthday boy/girl that gifts our appetites at the same time.[...]

HOT: The Age Good Food Guide 2011 Winners!

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When I first moved to Melbourne, the first couple of books I bought for my new life were: 1. The Age Good Food Guide; 2. The Age Cheap Eats; and 3. A Melways. In a way, you could say that my priorities haven’t changed much since[...]

HOT: The Brasserie, 8 Whiteman St, Crown Entertainment Complex, Southbank

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French food is my favourite cuisine so I have no idea why it?s taken me this long to get to The Brasserie . I suspect it?s probably because it?s at Crown . Call me a boring repetitive food-blogging snob but I still have trouble in my[...]