Melbourne Places

One of my favourite places to breakfast in Melbourne is the Mart Cafe at Middle Park – Middle Park tram stop for tram 96 to St Kilda.
This cafe is right on the tram stop – platform 2.  Notice the name – tram backwards.

In the summer I wander in early and make my way out onto [...]

The head office of a company I worked for was in Park Street, South Melbourne, across the road from Chimmys.

Chimmys was the place to grab a coffee before racing to a meeting or a training course.  The Head Office moved and I forgot about Chimmys until recently when I was in Park Street and wanted [...]

There are some fascinating places in Melbourne.  Russell House  or The Old Corner  Shop, as it is often called, is one of them.  Places like this are what make Melbourne such an exciting city to explore.

As you are wandering up Kings Street or along La Trobe Street at the edge of the CBD you suddenly [...]

At the Booktalk Cafe, 91 Swan Street, Richmond food, coffee and books seem to be of equal importance.  The cafe is central to the ambiance of the shop.  The tables and chairs are in the middle of the space and then they wander between the book cases to the back of the room.  This is [...]

Cuppa Cottage?   What a name I thought.  Who would think that up?  Would someone really expect people to be drawn to a cafe with that name?

I have a friend who can’t get the words the right way round and calls it Cottage Cuppa.  Either way it is a silly name.
I guess naming something is difficult.  [...]

The Carousel, is an events center with a café attached.  It is on the edge of The Lake in Albert Park – such a great position.  It’s a stunning experience to sit on the deck outside the cafe,  sip coffee, while swans and ducks float by, joggers pant past and walkers chat as they amble [...]

Weekend biking around the Eastern Bays  is a Melbourne tradition.  On Saturday and Sunday mornings hordes of bikers, in the very best lycra and helmets,  form packs and peddle furiously along Beach Road to Marine Parade in St Kilda and then on to Port Melbourne.

Those of us who drive have to keep a keen eye [...]

Winter afternoons are a great time for coffee and cake – well any afternoon but in winter I am more comfortable about indulging myself.   A reward for being out and about in the chill of the afternoon.
If you are out and about in  Port Melbourne and feel the need for such a reward a great [...]

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 doing that [...]

Carlisle Street in East St Kilda was the Melbourne Place I got to know well when I first came to Melbourne.  It was here I became familiar with Russian and Eastern European food for the first time.
The St Kilda Library in Carlisle Street has a large selection of Polish and Russian books in their foreign [...]