06 Dec

This Parkville pub/hotel was renovated not long ago and this is where my workplace had its Christmas dinner. We had organised for a set menu, and my choices for the night were the prawns and chorizo for the entree and eye fillet steak as mains. The description of my entree sounded like the prawns would be the hero ingredient, but it seemed like it was more about the potatoes because I only had about 3 prawns. The potatoes did have a nice crunch to them though; probably from being baked....

21:26 / Bar/Pub / Food / Naughtons Parkville Hotel / Parkville / Restaurants
03 Dec

Mum has been hanging out for a paella before she leaves for her overseas trip. After looking at prices for paella at various restaurants we went with Movida Aqui, which had a $63 paella that feeds 2-4 people (other restaurants charged up to $30 pp). Since we were there, we thought we may as well order some tapas and other dishes to supplement our rice meal, though dad isn't a big eater so we refrained from ordering everything that looked interesting. We ordered the rice first, before deciding on...

14:56 / Food / Melbourne CBD / Movida Aqui / Restaurants / Spanish
23 Nov

I've been wanting to come here since I heard that their omakase is one of the best in Melbourne. Mum has been here before and said the lunch special was very good, so we went to try it out. All three of us picked different lunch specials (ranging between $18.50-19.50 each). I had the sushi, mum had sashimi and dad had the chirashi don. We started off with pickles and an unusual appetiser of noodles. Mum particularly liked these noodles and tried to figure out what ingredients were used in...

14:20 / Food / Glen Waverley / Japanese / Restaurants / Shira Nui
12 Nov

I'd heard that the udon served at Nama Nama are handmade and have been wanting to visit for a while. I chose the pork udon, whilst mum had a bento. The udon noodles, while not as good as they are in Japan, were smooth and slightly chewy. I was surprised that the quail egg was slightly runny, meaning they used fresh eggs rather than canned ones. The components mum picked for her bento were: Cabbage and daikon with ponzu mayo, kingfish sahimi, grilled eel onigiri, pork neck roll with sake miso...

22:57 / Food / Japanese / Melbourne CBD / Nama Nama / Restaurants
09 Nov

I forgot to bring my camera so there are no photos for this post, but it was a visit that both mum and I particularly enjoyed. Suzuran is a Japanese grocery store in Camberwell, which has a discreet, take-away only sushi bar attached to it. Instead of going for a la carte we chose 2 trays of prepared sushi: a tray of 10 maki (~$8, tuna, salmon, avocado, cucumber and something else) and a tray of 5 slices of California roll futomaki and 5 nigiri ($13, salmon, tuna, ?kingfish)....

14:26 / Camberwell / Food / Japanese / Restaurants / Suzuran
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