The Hank Marvin Market is a good place to get breakfast on a Saturday. See melbourneplaces visit a few weeks ago. There are various options and last Saturday I opted for the breakfast burger from The Little Mushroom Company food truck. I love mushrooms and I could think of nothing nicer on a cold…
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Those Girls Beveridge company was at the South Melbourne Night Market last year and I met with them for the first time then. Their iced tea was an ideal thirst quenching drink on a warm February evening in Melbourne. Since that meeting their business has surged ahead. Melbourneplaces needed a catch up. They pitched…
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I miss-judged the Stonnington City Council and what they were doing with the changes to the Windsor end of Chapel Street in my post “Walking Chapel Street Early on a Sunday Morning” A few weeks later and the flower beds are flourishing. Workers are cleaning the rubbish on a regular basis and more importantly…
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Batch is still here. I first wrote about Batch on this blog in 2010. It is wonderful to find that some places don’t turn over. The media is full of reviews of a new place opening their doors. So they should be we need to know what is happening out there. For example…
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During my blog holiday the Hank Marvin Market opened in Alma Park St Kilda East. It has become a regular haunt on a Saturday morning. It opened while Alma Parks still had an upgrade under way. The months during winter were muddy but the crowds still came. The up-grade is now finished and…
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Last Sunday on Fathers’ Day I walked to Acland Street, St Kilda. I expected more action early this morning than I have found on other Sunday’s and I was right. The roads were busy and so were the cafes. Breakfast out with Dad? I hit Acland Street from Clyde Street. This is a good…
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Melbourne Places is rolling on again after a sabbatical. I love that word, sabbatical. It conjures up so much that is mysterious. What happens during a sabbatical? What do people do? Where do they go? I spent my twelve month’s sabbatical from my blog hanging out in Melbourne. For some of that time I…
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Carlisle Street is bathed in late-autumn sun and it is buzzing with locals and visitors. We stroll through this crowd to Ilona Staller for lunch. It is a special lunch for us and we are early. We wander into their lovely Art Deco entrance and they let us in and give us a menu…
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O’Connell’s is a classy gastro pub with a friendly vibe. The gastro bit generally means the prices are up. Great food of course but you don’t see yourself getting a bargain. On Monday at O’Connell’s that assumption is not correct. On Monday they have a choice 250gm cut of cape grimm porterhouse and a…
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Bell’s Hotel has had a make-over. It is open, light and roomy. On one hand the real pub feeling that you would find somewhere like The Local in Port Melbourne has gone. On the other it hasn’t a real gastro pub vibe like Lamaro’s in Cecil Street. It seems to have decided to be…
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