on June 16th, 2010
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Another watering hole in Melbourne CBD
on November 9th, 2011
There was a time when the only drink you’d get in Melbourne’s CBD came with sticky carpet and a layer of grime on the bartop. Not so anymore. The revolution is well and truly here. These days, Melbourne is spoilt for choice if you want a great selection of specialty wines, beers or cocktails, and Bar Ampere has just added itself to the menu.
This team is bound to do well, impressing Melbournians and visitors alike, with a fabulous sultry space and very reasonably priced tipples. Their CV reads like one gorgeous long night of mixing it where the cool kids go – they’ve created such Melbourne institutions as Madame Brussels, Collins Quarter and the Gin Palace. They really can’t go wrong.
Very slick. Very Chic. Very Melbourne.
Bar Ampere
16 Russell Place,
Melbourne
(03) 9663 7557
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Double Chin
on September 2nd, 2011
Chin Chin - When one chin isn't enough
Chin Chin – a new asian eatery in bubbly Flinders Lane – has been getting a lot of love from the ‘blogosphere’ since it opened in late May, so we were rather relieved to find it definitely lived up to the hype.
One tinsy word of warning though – it’s not for those with hearing sensitivities. LOUD is how I would describe it. The cavernous space has been funkified to within an inch of its life – and it is slick and sexy – but the hard lines and high ceilings are not a friend to those with noise issues. The perfect place to take someone you’d like to lean in close to.
The food is great though. Which is why, on a ‘school night’ we couldn’t get a spot in the 120+ eatery until after 9pm. Worth the wait, in particular for the caramelised sticky pork and sour herb salad. Yum.
CHIN CHIN
125 FLINDERS LANE
MELBOURNE
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Where are Melbourne’s Foodie Goodies?
on August 31st, 2011
Exciting news for we Melbournians. Not only have we just nudged Vancouver off the ‘World’s Most Liveable City’top spot, but the new 2012 Age Good Food guide has just been released, highlighting the best of Melbourne and regional Victoria’s restaurants and cafes. A must-have for your next gastronomic exploration of this great city. http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/the-age-good-food-guide-2012-20110829-1jhxp.html
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Design Possibilities
on July 29th, 2011
And you thought the world had enough red shoes? Well the State of Design festival will have you thinking again.
The extensive programme of events explores Design in all its many guises, from product to architecture to TV and film. It runs until July 31st with a range of events and activities to explore.
Open House in Melbourne
on July 29th, 2011
If you’re something of a closet sticky beak, then this weekend is your chance to polish up your beak and enjoy publicly nosing about in some of Melbourne’s most iconic buildings.
The Melbourne Open House programme throws the doors wide open to 75 notable properties across the city’s CBD for two fabulous days this weekend. You can have a good gander at the insides of buildings you might have wandered by and wondered about. An easier way to explore the city’s gems than sneakily pressing your nose against cold window panes.
Our pick of the 75? Don’t miss: The Manchester Unity building (pictured), Backstage at Her Majesty’s Theatre and the tunnels of the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Check out the website for details
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Luscious Exhibition brings Vienna to Melbourne
on June 23rd, 2011
This year, the shortest day of the year seems to have stung like no previous June 22nd. The wintery Melbourne skyline appears to go beyond gloomy and summer just seems soooo far away. How about a breather in Vienna then?
The National Gallery of Victoria is doing their bit to help Melbourne shimmy its way through winter with a luscious exhibition of some of Europe’s finest artists. The ‘Viennese Winter Masterpieces’ exhibition features artists and designers like Gustav Klimt, Otto Wagner, Egon Schiele, Josef Hoffman, Adolf Loos and Carl Moll and runs until the spring blooms take over.
And who’s cockles would not be warmed by the lush gold in Klimt’s iconoclastic works or Otto Wagner’s ‘colour and movement, colour and movement’ depicting wealthy Viennesse frolicking about at a ball. The exhibition of artists of the Vienna Secession movement – a rebelious group of artists opposed to established art circles - runs until October 9th at Melbourne’s major public art gallery on St Kilda Road in the arts precinct of the city.
This cockle-warming suggestion of what to do with winter in Melbourne comes from
the people at Apartment Alkira – Melbourne’s accommodation of choice for
those wanting somewhere warm and cosy to rest between winter adventures.
Melbourne Jazz Festival
on May 31st, 2011
Brrr. Yes, it’s a notably brisk Melbourne winter this year. We suspect however that these dudes will brave it all to tease the girlies with a bicep or eight at Melbourne’s annual International Jazz Festival in the next few weeks.
The festival is accommodating over 120 events with 46 freebies for anyone trying to stretch their pennies. There are also heaps of big names across multiple venues for those wanting to splash.
Starts on June 4th and runs for ten crazy nights. Why don’t you move it, move it?
Melbourne International Jazz Festival Website
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Melbourne’s Lost and Found Hotel
on May 2nd, 2011
It’s not often we do a big plug for Melbourne accommodation that isn’t Apartment Alkira. Oh, if we’re fully booked and we can’t accommodate you we have a few places we recommend, but as proud parents, we do rather think Alkira is one of the best value, independent, unique short stay apartments in Melbourne. It’s slightly boastful, we know (*ahem, *blush). But today’s post is to let you know about another sensational option for staying in quintessentially ‘Melbourne’ accommodation – Melbourne’s Lost and Found Hotel.
It’s a promo run by Victoria’s tourism body where they allow winning entrants to stay for 3 or 4 nights at a time over a period of three months at a very funky central Melbourne ‘hotel room’. Well it’s a ‘made-up’ hotel room actually – they construct it in the months leading up to May and fit it out with loads of wonderful local artisan products. What’s the catch I hear you say? Nothing really, except you’ll be competing with upward of 16,000 other hopefuls. But as Mr Tatts tells us on a regular basis, ‘you’ve got to be in it to win it’, so pop over to their website and find fifty fab words that might just land you a sleep-over somewhere special.
*This is how it started…not as you’ll have to sleep in it…phew…
If you’re not one of the select few, but you still want to pop
into Melbourne and need a serviced apartment with style, have a squizz at our availability. Apartment Alkira is situated in the heart of Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia
Tutankhamun makes a visit
on April 26th, 2011
The golden (haired) boy stops by Melbourne for a short stay on his world tour. See what jewels and collectables the rich and famous of the 1300s BC couldn’t bare to be parted from.
No need to rush though, he’s on show from now until November in suitably palatial accommodation at Melbourne Museum.
More Info on Melbourne’s King Tutankhamum exhibition
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Quick trip to Spain from your Melb Apartment chaise lounge
on April 12th, 2011
If you fancy an overseas trip but can’t quite manage the pennies (even with the dollar at its current ridiculous level), then a trip to Melbourne to partake of the Spanish and Latin American Film Festival might do the trick. No, wait, you’re right, it probably won’t.
Still, there’s a great line up at this Pedro Almodovar curated extravaganza so definitely worth checking out if you’re in Melbourne for a short stay.
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