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Ask the Doctor: Small dishes for big eating

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Help me Doctor! : We are in Melbourne for a long weekend next week and want to fit as many great eateries in as possible. Can you suggest ones that serve smaller dishes so we can visit more than one a night/day/meal? Thanks – Louise[...]

HOT: Chez Olivier, 121 Greville St, Prahran

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I am an unabashed Francophile so I can’t quite believe that I’d never been to, let alone heard of, Chez Olivier till now. And Mon Dieu what have I been missing?? The door to Chez Olivier is small and unassuming but as soon as[...]

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[...]

NOT: Terra Rossa, 87 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

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We were trying to decide on a pre-movie dinner location and came up with Terra Rossa ? mainly because we had a discount Entertainment Card and it was right by the Forum Theatre. Having not heard much about Terra Rossa , I had no expectations[...]

HOT: Bar Lourinha, 37 Lt Collins St, Melbourne

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Every weekday Bar Lourinha has a different lunch theme ? Mondays are lamb stufato, then comes flaming chorizo diablo, paella valenciana and goat special. For Fishy Fridays I had expected a large fishy lunch dish ? maybe some fish stew?[...]

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: Markov Place, 350-352 Drummond St, Carlton

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Today my recently Melbourne-relocated Sydney friend commented that Melbourne seems to have a particular fascination with Spanish cuisine which wasn’t evident in the Sydney dining scene. I can’t vouch for whether that’s actually[...]

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: David?s Restaurant, 4 Cecil Place, Prahran

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The Age Epicure recently ran an article about the best places for yum cha in Melbourne and they named one-hat David’s Restaurant as one of the best in town (unbelievably my personal favourite Shark Fin House didn’t make the[...]

HOT: Lau?s Family Kitchen, 4 Acland St, St Kilda

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The Jetsetting Parents were in town and as usual, I’d planned an eating itinerary for their stay. While I was contemplating where to take them, I remembered Lau’s Family Kitchen, a Cantonese restaurant in St Kilda that I’d always[...]