22 Jul

Rubira's is a popular and busy seafood restaurant that had its beginnings in Port Melbourne, and was expanded to North Melbourne nearly a year ago. It was started up by fourth generation hotelier, Paul Taberner, and restauranteur and third generation fish monger, John Rubira. John himself gets up in the early hours of every morning to get first pickings at the fish markets. For the North Melbourne branch, this wonderfully fresh and high quality seafood is prepared by Adam Barge, who came over from Port Melbourne to head...

22:47 / Food / North Melbourne / Restaurants / Rubira's / Seafood
19 Dec

[caption id="attachment_7106" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Fish and Chips - Gunard, Salad, Tartare ($25)[/caption] We took the scenic route to Akaroa (a French-influenced coastal town), following Summit Road. Once at Akaroa we shared a serve of fish and chips from Harbar Beach Café and Bar, enjoying the view from the large window fronting the sea. The fish for today was gunard and its batter was quite light and crispy ($25). The aioli was quite nice too. After that we reparked the car closer to the main shopping strip on Beach Rd. We...

12:53 / Akaroa / Fast Food / Harbar Beach Café and Bar + The Akaroa Fish and Chip Shop / New Zealand / Seafood / Travel
16 Dec

Because we didn’t have breakfast I was rather hungry when we got back from our Tasman Glacier kayaking trip at 2pm, so we just got lunch at the Old Mountaineers Café and Bar. I had the Local-Farmed Aoraki Smoked Salmon Bagel With Aioli, Cream Cheese, Lettuce, Red Onion And A Wedge Of Lemon ($15) and dad had the soup of the day, which was Pumpkin And Ginger Soup ($13.50). Kind of expensive, but I just wanted to eat something. My bagel wasn’t bad, although the bagel wasn’t very dense....

14:18 / Mount Cook Village / New Zealand / Old Mountaineers Café and Bar / Seafood / Travel
14 Dec

After waking up relatively early (with the 2 hour time difference from Melbourne), we drove to the Riccarton Rotary Sunday Market, which was held at the Riccarton Racecourse. There was a mix of food and knick knacks, though there wasn’t as much fresh produce as I expected. [caption id="attachment_7058" align="aligncenter" width="529"] Smoked Eel w. Aioli ($2)[/caption] We picked up 3 punnets of strawberries for $5, tried samples of smoked salmon, caramel-coated nuts, Christmas cake and dips. For brunch we tried a $2 taster of smoked eel with aioli on a...

11:57 / Bread / Christchurch / Dessert/Sweets / Middle Eastern / New Zealand / Riccarton Rotary Sunday Market / Seafood
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