Cafe Barcelona is bar and cafe in a long narrow space, with such a narrow street frontage it is easy to stroll past without really noticing it. We found it because one of our group had a voucher purchased for $19.00 that gives $50 worth of free food for two people – a pretty…
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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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Brunswick Street, Fitzroy can be hot on summer days. But even the hot pavements don’t keep us away. We still flock there to meet, drink coffee, eat, shop and so on. I often browse in the weekends and when I wish for a cool breeze or just time out from the hurly-burly of…
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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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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…
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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…
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Gas Eateries and Supply Cafe in South Melbourne is a place to hang out. Not necessarily to be seen or to see who is there rather because it’s that sort of a place. It’s where to go to eat or sip a coffee and read the paper. There are singles, couples, friends and groups…
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Brunswick Street on a busy Saturday afternoon and you’re shopping until you drop. Give yourself a break – feed your soul for a moment? Duck into the Fitzroy Nursery – The Artists Gardens at 390 Brunswick Street. Listen to the fountains playing, gaze at the lush plants, take in the garden art and find…
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