Menu du jour mid range : 61 Recipes


  • Recipe HOT: Tutto Bene, Shop 28, Mid Level Southgate, Southbank
    HOT: Tutto Bene, Shop 28, Mid Level Southgate, Southbank
    Friday afternoon on Twitter: @ jetsettingjoyce : Going to a concert at Melb Recital Centre. Dining black hole. Any suggestions for nearby dinner (not EQ, always end up at EQ)? @tephdee :  tutto bene at southbank does great risotto[...]
  • Recipe HOT Gig List
    HOT Gig List
    Today we say hi to my new guest blogger CC, a cool ex-Melburnian who now calls East London home. Skinny jeans aficionado, mosh pit veteran, classical pianist now electric guitarist, CC will be bringing you news of upcoming HOT gigs in Melbourne.[...]
  • Recipe HOT Gig List
    HOT Gig List
    Today we say hi to my new guest blogger CC, a cool ex-Melburnian who now calls East London home. Skinny jeans aficionado, mosh pit veteran, classical pianist now electric guitarist, CC will be bringing you news of upcoming HOT gigs in Melbourne.[...]
  • Recipe HOT Chat: Akisa from BeautySwatch
    HOT Chat: Akisa from BeautySwatch
    You may remember that at the Nuffnang Christmas party I met Akisa, the brains behind a cool beauty website called BeautySwatch . I liked her idea so much (a huge colour library containing swatches for thousands of lipsticks) I thought you might[...]
  • Recipe HOT: Anada, 197 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
    HOT: Anada, 197 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
    I have reviewed Anada before , but way before the full-fledged version of MEL: HOT OR NOT when reviews didn’t necessarily contain photos. I have felt for a while that Anada deserved more a few paragraphs of text, so to redress this[...]
  • Recipe HOT Chat: Markus Bohm of The Langham
    HOT Chat: Markus Bohm of The Langham
    Markus chatting with Penny (Addictive & Consuming) and Sarah (Sarah Cooks) You may remember a couple of weeks ago I was invited to The Langham to enjoy their chocolate indulgence high tea . Today’s your opportunity to find out more[...]
  • Recipe HOT: Tom Phat, 184 Sydney Rd, Brunswick
    HOT: Tom Phat, 184 Sydney Rd, Brunswick
    There’s so much to love on the menu at Tom Phat that I wished (a) we lived closer; (b) we were more than two diners on the night I visited; and (c) I hadn’t married a man with a relatively small appetite (sorry RM!). Tom[...]
  • Recipe HOT: Bouzy Rouge, 470 Bridge Rd, Richmond
    HOT: Bouzy Rouge, 470 Bridge Rd, Richmond
    I often get asked to recommend good restaurants for group bookings and now I?ve found another one to add to the list ? Bouzy Rouge . On a Saturday afternoon thirty or so women descended on Bouzy Rouge ?s private room to celebrate a friend?s hens[...]
  • Recipe HOT: Italy 1, 27 George Parade, Melbourne
    HOT: Italy 1, 27 George Parade, Melbourne
    Whenever visitors ask me to recommend a casual CBD restaurant for dinner, I tend to always direct them to Italy 1 . Why? Because it?s down a typical Melbourne laneway so it?s not that easy to find (though not so difficult that it?s going to freak[...]
  • Recipe HOT: Easy Tiger, 96 Smith St, Collingwood
    HOT: Easy Tiger, 96 Smith St, Collingwood
    There was no doubt that I?d be getting to know the new kid on the block, modern Thai restaurant Easy Tiger . I live right around the corner from it. And I really mean around the corner ? the lovely wood decking in the back outdoor area[...]