Apartment Alkira – Boutique Melbourne Short Stay Accommodation

15 Celestial Ave Melbourne The address might create a certain expectation of this chinese restaurant and that would be, well, both right and wrong.  While the food is most often of the heavenly variety, the place itself is not.  Cheap and cheerful.  Nothing more.  Nothing less.  The tabletops are laminex, the walls fake wood panelling and [...]

360 Lt Collins St Melbourne The in house pastries in this bakery-cum-cafe are so light they’d barely do a dint of damage to the hips.  No really.  Flakey and ethereal, teamed with a robust Romcaffe latte, they make a suberb start to a morning in Melbourne.  Gill’s diner and commercial bakery is quite the find.  Fabulous [...]

Often referred to as the ‘lungs of Melbourne’, the Botanical gardens provide a great reprieve from the frenetic pace of the city.  You’ll find monstrous trees with terrific foliage for great shade on a hot day.  The resident bats come out in full force at night, as does the Moonlight Cinema and an annual Shakespeare [...]