Australia wouldn’t be Australia if there wasn’t sea food for Christmas, New Year, Australia Day any other occasion where people get together. ‘Chuck a few prawns on the Barbie’ is a sort of a joke but it is also what happens. All summer in Australian households across the country, sea food is being ‘chucked’…
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There is a sustainability tour you can join and take with a leader to tell you the behind the scenes stuff or you can pick up a map and followed the route at your leisure. Sustainability covers everything: Stall holders supporting small farmers whose approach to farming and animal welfare they know and approve…
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The South Melbourne Market has been up graded over the years. I can still remember when it was the cramped and crowed market that I fell in love with years ago. Now there is more space and there seems to be more light. I’m not sure if this is true but I remember it…
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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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Fun, food, fashion, music and crafts – it is all at the South Melbourne Night Market. The market is held in the South Melbourne Market building every Thursday night until the 5th of March. It is lively and most of it is under cover so regardless of the weather you can enjoy it. Music…
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The market opened on the last evening of October. It was a good start. The weather was pleasant, sunny and coolish and the people were turning up. This a craft market with food. I am only going to look at the craft in this post and leave the food for another post. The craft…
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The Palmerston Hotel has been around forever or so it seems. I have driven past it countless times. It is something to look at when you are jammed in a traffic snarl on Kings Way. On warm summer days you can see patrons outside. While I am imprisoned in my car I haven’t warmed…
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One of my favourite breads in Melbourne is Noisette’s Sourdough Fruit Bread and my favourite Melbourne place to buy it is at the Pickadeli in the South Melbourne Market. In fact now I think about I only buy it at the Market. I still pop into Noisette’s on Bay Street, Port Melbourne for coffee…
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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…
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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…
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