10 Mar

Known for its mainly American fare, family-run pub Three Crowns sits prominently on the corner of Victoria and King St. The modest but clean space features a separate dining room, a wine bar and a beer garden. Shawn Davies runs the kitchen, offers mostly American food like starts of southern fried chicken, Buffalo wings and chilli cheese fries. The mains menu includes a range of burgers, and more meaty things like parmas, ribs and steak.  [caption id="attachment_11898" align="aligncenter" width="800"] The Flaming Crown - Quarter pound Cayenne spiced Angus beef...

12:27 / Bar/Pub / Food / Restaurants / Three Crowns / West Melbourne
08 Mar

Popping up at The Boatbuilders Yard, Bang Bang RC is giving us a taste of what's to come and leaving us hanging for more. The permanent restaurant in Elsternwick will be built from scratch, and whilst it's time consuming, expensive and leaves more potential for things to go wrong, it does allow them to design and create their dream restaurant. These dream plans include the installation of a woodfired grill and big wok burners to recreate authentic flavours. [caption id="attachment_11655" align="aligncenter" width="534"] South-east Side - Four Pillars Navy Strength...

17:42 / Bang Bang / Cambodian / Elsternwick / Food / Lao / South Wharf / Thai / Vietnamese
07 Mar

Stokers used to be a two store affair, but the land where the original Ivanhoe restaurant sat had to be cleared and developed into apartments. The South Melbourne site is still alive and kicking, serving their famous pancakes to all. [caption id="attachment_11912" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Mr Big - Yerling Station beef patty, with BLT[/caption] So, not a pancake, but dad ordered the Mr Big burger, filled with homemade Yerling Station beef patty, BLT, cheese, caramelised onion, and garlic parsley mayo. It's a simple and honest, non-greasy burger. Burgers also come, not...

12:14 / Burgers / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Restaurants / South Melbourne / Stokers
05 Mar

Occupying a cosy little building in South Melbourne, Kuu is a Japanese café open for breakfast right through to dinner. The menu largely revolves around healthy, balanced food, but popular not-so-healthy things like katsu and karaage are also served. [caption id="attachment_11922" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Large Match Latte ($5)[/caption] [caption id="attachment_11915" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Matcha Affogato ($5)[/caption] The matcha latte was milkier and less intense with the matcha flavour than Little Rogue’s version. Matcha affogato came with an intense matcha syrup to pour over the vanilla ice cream rather than the traditional coffee, and...

12:54 / Food / Japanese / Kuu Café and Japanese Kitchen / Restaurants / South Melbourne
05 Mar

A visit to a café in South Melbourne was followed by a drop-in to Agathe Patisserie at the South Melbourne markets, and the enticing smell of butter filled the car on the way home. [caption id="attachment_11908" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Plain Croissant ($5)[/caption] We bought two croissants that day. I was hoping for a pandan croissant, but there weren’t any available on our visit. The plain croissant had a good, crispy and flaky shell, and the airy, spiraling interior was tender, stretchy and moist, not doughy. The rich fragrance of butter was...

12:36 / Agathe Patisserie / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Restaurants / South Melbourne
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