Melbourne Places

I need to give you an up-date on  my post about the Wayside Inn Hotel on the corner of Ferrars Street and City Road, South Melbourne.
I wrote of the good meal we had and that we would be back for more of the same.
Friends turned up to the Wayside Inn Hotel for dinner last week [...]

The Wayside Inn is a stylish Gastro pub in South Melbourne.  When I travel around South Melbourne and Port Melbourne I’m  staggered at how many old hotels/pubs  have  been moved into the modern age with a makeover. It is also astonishing, if you keep your eyes open, just how many  you see that haven’t had [...]

Last week I had lunch at the buffet in the Melba Room at the Langham Hotel, Southbank, for the second time.  It proved to be as good as my first visit about nine months ago.

The grand staircase leading to the Melba Room.
On this cold, bleak, winter Friday the dining room was almost full.  [...]

The Oriental Tea House is something different.

The Oriental Tea house in Chapel Street was once a pub
Yum Cha on Sunday is something I enjoy – watching the trolleys come past, studying the food and deciding ‘yes’ or ‘no’.  The frustrating part is that when I have eaten enough I see something new appear from the [...]

I had not intended to go to the Cricket Club Hotel in fact I have never thought of going to the Cricket Club Hotel. It is one of those Melbourne places that have never entered my consciousness.

As a by-product of local advertising I found myself there on a cold winter night because a friend reads [...]

Saigon means Vietnam, to most of us,  yet Cafe Saigon 159 – 161 Victoria Avenue, Albert Park serves a variety dishes from a number of Asian countries.  I’m not sure if this is an advantage or not.
The people with me have been to Cafe Saigon several times and knew exactly what they were going to [...]

You don’t have to be a railway buff to enjoy a stop at the Victorian Railway Arts and Antiques – the place that is like a museum.
Ride the 96 tram that’s the light rail, to St Kilda and get off at the Albert Park Station.
From the platform you walk into the old, red, brick station [...]

Sunday. The sun is shining and the part of the world that is South Melbourne is buzzing.  A good place to take in all this buzz is at an outside table at the Red Star Cafe. On a cold day a window table inside would do just as well.

This cafe is right opposite the main [...]

The Station Hotel in Footscray is one of the many corner pubs in Melbourne that has re-invented itself and turned itself into a gastro pub (Gastronomic pub).  No longer the bangers and mash ordered at the counter, now it is dining-room service for these old pubs.  The kitchens are run by chefs who have proved [...]

Recently,  I scrolled through some of the blogs  I follow and read a review of the  Dae Jang Geum Korean BBQ.  We decided to try the restaurant. 
When I mentioned at work  that I would be lunching at a Korean Restaurant everyone said,
“What’s Korean food like?”
It is a good question.  We know so much about [...]