Apartment Alkira – Boutique Melbourne Short Stay Accommodation

(Ed note: June 2010, sadly this great space has recently been taken over by a very popular, but only moderately good Mexican restaurant.  *Sigh*) Bar/Cafe Upstairs, 11 Collins Street I love a set of stairs.  Oh, not for the workout for the gluts (pleeese!).  But for the fabulous sense of anticipation you feel at the bottom [...]

Melbourne’s CBD is full of fabulous sneaky little laneways and Hosier Lane is one of the best. A magnificent ‘gallery’ of some of the city’s best grafitti and home to Movida, providing the CBD’s best Spanish fare.

Ezard Flinders Lane Gingerboy Crossley Street I couldn’t decide which Teage Ezard restaurant to add to my ‘favourites’ list, so, well, you choose. Ezard is a ‘proper’ restaurant. A fine – rather very fine – dining experience. A slick and intimate dining room of plush carpets, shiny, shiny glassware and highly starched linen. You certainly [...]

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 [...]

Cumulus Inc 45 Flinders Lane, ph 9650 1445 A delightful, well designed space with tres chic floor staff and fab food, it can sometimes be hard to get a table at this Flinders Lane eatery.  Well worth persevering though.  My favorite meal here is breaky – though this shouldn’t cast a cloud over the wonderful lunch or dinner [...]