filed in Arcades, Cafes, Chapel Street, European food, Food, Markets, Melbourne, Prahran, Tram Route 72 on Mar.29, 2010
The Prahran Market is a foodies market. It is all about food, preparing it, cooking it and eating it. If that sounds like you The Prahran Market is the place to explore. Take your recipes and search out those unusual ingredients.
I think it is best on Saturday. The produce seems to be fresher as if [...]
filed in Cafes, Carlton, European food, Food, Melbourne, Tram Route 96 on Mar.28, 2010
The news report that Rocco “Rocky” Pantaleo died in a road crash at St Kilda Junction gave me new insight into my favourite La Porchetta restaurant in North Carlton. I have written about it on this blog – see the link to that post at the bottom of this page or here.
I knew nothing of [...]
filed in Cafes, Carlton, European food, Food, Melbourne on Mar.22, 2010
I have been overseas for a couple of weeks and while I was away I remembered how I fell in love with Melbourne.
My first love was “Little Italy”on Lygon Street – that small strip of Lygon Street between Gratton Street and Argyle Place North that runs alongside Argyle Square .
Italian restaurant Lygon Street lunch time [...]
filed in CBD, Gardens, Melbourne, Melbourne Botanical Gardens, Parks on Mar.05, 2010
A summer’s day and the heat is up. You pant a bit then fan yourself with your hand, a light wind wafts around. It is refreshing and with it comes an instant love of this movement of air. It is easy to worship the wind on such a day.
In the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne there [...]