27 May

I'm not normally one for buying cupcakes, but since I was in the area and had an Entertainment Book voucher I thought I might as well. It took me a while to find it because I mistakenly walked into the complex that housed the Safeway rather than up the ramp towards Glenferrie Station. I'd assumed the voucher was the same deal as the one from the new book - one for half the regular price. It wasn't until I was literally it handing over that I realised the soon-to-expire...

13:52 / Cupcake Central / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Hawthorn / Restaurants
27 May

When I perused the menu a few weeks ago there was only one dish I was interested in trying, which was the smoked salmon omelette. After contacting the cafe and being informed that they have an all-day breakfast I settled on trying my dish of choice at a lunchtime. I'd originally planned to visit two weeks ago, but things came up unexpectedly so I had to postpone it by a week. The week after that, something else happened which left me without transport and so had to postpone...

13:23 / Burgers / Cafe Blac / Food / Hawthorn / Modern Australian / Restaurants
15 May

It's the pre-June rush-to-use-up-all-the-Entertainment-Book-vouchers time again. I created a custom spud using a base of sweet potato and toppings of warm braised pulled lamb shoulder, spinach, quinoa mix, broccoli and pumpkin. The base price of the potato is $4.90, meat toppings are $3 and most others are $1 each. There's also condiments at the cashier where you can add salt, pepper, chilli flakes and sauces. A new batch of sweet potato had finished cooking right before our order so they were piping hot. The pumpkin was cooked but the...

19:59 / Fast Food / Food / Hawthorn / Restaurants / Spudbar
13 May

We came to Cumulus Inc. for a belated Mother's Day celebration. I've previously been here for breakfast, but I was excited to sample their dinner offerings. Knowing they didn't take bookings for groups of less than seven people, we made a point of arriving early. Coming in at around 6:15pm, we managed to nab the last table for 5. There were two impressive varieties of bread - sourdough multigrain and lighter bread with an almost cake-like consistency and a crispy, slightly salted crust. We started off with the daily soup...

20:56 / Cumulus Inc. / Food / Melbourne CBD / Modern Australian / Restaurants
10 May

Under new owners, the former Fred Young of Kew has recently been renovated and transformed into Now & Then Café. Robert Castellani has also taken over as head chef. We picked three dishes from the lunch menu, though in addition to the main menu they have a selection of salads, pastries and sweets in a cabinet. They appeared slightly understaffed; the main waiter seemed to be run off his feet. The Cabo Tacos were corn tacos filled with baja snapper, avocado, sweet coleslaw and mayo ($17). They were quite...

14:59 / Food / Kew / Modern Australian / Now & Then Cafe / Restaurants
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