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Menu du jour melbourne dining : 30 Recipes


  • Recipe HOT: Sichuan Dining Room, Mid City Arcade, Shop 3-5, 194-200 Bourke St, Melbourne
    HOT: Sichuan Dining Room, Mid City Arcade, Shop 3-5, 194-200 Bourke St, Melbourne
    While I aim to write the decisive guide to Melbourne, sometimes it is very hard to be decisive. As I was writing this post Sichuan Dining Room had me veering from HOT to NOT to HOT to NOT again. As you can see  in the end I’ve leaned towards[...]
  • Recipe NOT: Fifteen Melbourne, Basement, 115-117 Collins Street, Melbourne
    NOT: Fifteen Melbourne, Basement, 115-117 Collins Street, Melbourne
    To eat and do good? A $15 two course lunch at Fifteen Melbourne was too good to pass up. For those who don’t know, Fifteen is a worldwide social enterprise business started by famous uber-energetic chef Jamie Oliver . Its aim is to[...]
  • Recipe HOT: Bottega, 74 Bourke St, Melbourne
    HOT: Bottega, 74 Bourke St, Melbourne
    I haven?t been to Italian restaurant Bottega since their refurbishment in 2007. A glass panel now slices the room in half, with leather booths on one side and longer tables on the other. We sat on the booth side, which for me was a little[...]
  • Recipe HOT: Tempura Hajime, Park St, South Melbourne
    HOT: Tempura Hajime, Park St, South Melbourne
    Behind a non-descript door in Park Street, a little slice of Tokyo has dropped into South Melbourne. Tempura Hajime is a tiny restaurant which only serves, you guessed it, tempura. Now I’m not such a great fan of tempura (how much[...]
  • Recipe HOT: Tempura Hajime, Park St, South Melbourne
    HOT: Tempura Hajime, Park St, South Melbourne
    Behind a non-descript door in Park Street, a little slice of Tokyo has dropped into South Melbourne. Tempura Hajime is a tiny restaurant which only serves, you guessed it, tempura. Now I’m not such a great fan of tempura (how much[...]
  • Recipe HOT: Verge Restaurant & Winebar, 1 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
    HOT: Verge Restaurant & Winebar, 1 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
    It’s currently wedding season amongst my group of friends and so I’ve been invited to various forms of hen’s nights, from raucous cocktails to life drawing. One of the classier outings was a dinner at Verge , the two-hatted Simon[...]
  • Recipe HOT: Shoya Japanese Restaurant, 25 Market Ln, Melbourne
    HOT: Shoya Japanese Restaurant, 25 Market Ln, Melbourne
    Market Lane in the city is where you go to complete the Melbourne Asian foodie’s trinity – Flower Drum , Hutong Dumpling and Shoya . Shoya is a multi-storey venture into Japanese food. The basement and ground floor houses[...]
  • Recipe HOT: Shoya Japanese Restaurant, 25 Market Ln, Melbourne
    HOT: Shoya Japanese Restaurant, 25 Market Ln, Melbourne
    Market Lane in the city is where you go to complete the Melbourne Asian foodie’s trinity – Flower Drum , Hutong Dumpling and Shoya . Shoya is a multi-storey venture into Japanese food. The basement and ground floor houses[...]
  • Recipe HOT: The Italian, Level 6, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne
    HOT: The Italian, Level 6, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne
    Today we have a post from a new guest blogger, Huy – man about town, fine dining aficionado and on a mission to collect as many Michelin stars as possible. Take it away Huy! Entering the foyer of 101 Collins Street never fails to take[...]
  • Recipe HOT: Shoya Japanese Restaurant (Part 2), 25 Market Ln, Melbourne
    HOT: Shoya Japanese Restaurant (Part 2), 25 Market Ln, Melbourne
    After my previous post on dinner at the high-end Japanese restaurant Shoya , many people recommended that I try their more affordable but equally delicious lunch menu. So, to take advantage of a quiet day at the office, I joined my friends J and A[...]