Melbourne Places

The Local Pub is a sports pub and on the evening we were there they had the Rugby world cup on every screen.   There are a lot of screens.  This is a plus if you are there to watch sport.  We had a smallish screen on the wall beside our table.  The Rugby Game [...]

The Grosvenor Hotel was lit up on a cold rainy night and on a whim we went in for an early meal.

Grosvenor Hotel
We arrived shortly after 6pm and for a good three quarters of an hour we had the Bistro to ourselves and the waiter’s full attention.  We needed this attention.  The Bistro has an [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Hotel Albion is said to be ‘recognized as a Port Melbourne Landmark’.  I‘m not sure why this is because its architecture is the same as many corner pubs in the area – solid and square with little decoration.

The facade is even plainer than many pubs around Port Melbourne, Albert Park and South Melbourne– see [...]

It’s a weekday and you have time on your hands and you’re hungry?  One way to spend part of the day is eating in the Melba Room at The Langham Hotel, 1 Southgate Avenue, Southgate.

The Langham Hotel overlooking the Yarra River catching the last rays of the day’s sun.
This hotel used to be called the [...]

The Hotel Nest in Albert Park is an ideal place for Sunday Lunch.  I’m not talking brunch here.  This is a place for lunch.

It’s an old Pub on the corner of Victoria and Page Streets that like so many pubs in the area has taken on a new lease of life.  It has taken on [...]