30 Jan

Time for a revisit, but this time I tried the Kid Royale (Smoked Hickory Rub, Slow Roasted Beef w. Onion Jam, Honey Dijon, Baby Spinach, Crispy Onion Rings). If the Brklyn was difficult to eat, this one was even harder with the onion rings sitting on top. I ate them separately. The slow roasted beef was very moist and tender and I enjoyed the flavours of the Kid Royale more than the Brklyn.[caption id="attachment_5119" align="aligncenter" width="529"] Kid Royale[/caption]Hero 1 Stewart St Melbourne, VIC, 3000 (03) 9995 4655 http://www.herosubs.com.au/...

13:23 / Food / Hero / Melbourne CBD / Restaurants / Sandwiches/Wraps
29 Jan

Today's lunch was a Moroccan Lamb burger, consisting of prime lamb patty, grilled pumpkin, roasted red capsicum, hommous and aioli. When I first received the burger I was a bit confused because there was tomato in it. Only after asking one of the staff about it, I realised it came with salad. I did discover that it was missing the pumpkin though, so I had that added in. The burger wasn't really bad, but was generally underwhelming and a tad dry. [caption id="attachment_5125" align="aligncenter" width="529"] Moroccan Lamb Burger[/caption] Burger Edge Melbourne Central 211...

12:55 / Burger Edge / Burgers / Food / Melbourne CBD
19 Dec

For our end-of-year celebration we decided to go to Persimmon, which is found within the NGV. Currently only open for lunch, they offer a two-course lunch special with wine for $45 and a four-course market lunch for $55 (for non-NGV members). We chose to go with the four-course tasting menu, which the whole table had to participate in. Seeing as that what we had come to try, that was fine by us. It's a clean and modern space and would be a nice place for functions. We managed to...

14:53 / Food / Melbourne CBD / Modern Australian / Persimmon / Restaurants
18 Dec

Found opposite Robot Bar, just off Flinders Lane, Mugen Ramen serves up ramen, small dishes, drinks and, according to the menu, Japanese tapas-style dishes are coming soon. I took a bar seat right at the kitchen window, but there's also a larger seating area on the basement level. Today I opted for the wafu tsukemen plus an egg. Tsukemen is served and eaten differently from regular ramen, in that the noodles come separately from the sauce, which is made for dipping. Instructions are found on the back of the...

13:53 / Food / Japanese / Melbourne CBD / Mugen Ramen / Restaurants
22 Nov

I have to confess, I haven't heard much about red chicken (or ayam masak merah) before, so it piqued my interest. Perhaps it isn't a common dish from the part of Malaysia my parents are from. To try something different I had the biryani rice with red chicken and sambal eggplant. Instead of being cooked together, it seemed as if the eggplant had been deep-fried with a light batter then topped with sambal paste, which was particularly obvious when I noticed the sambal only coated some of the surfaces...

14:56 / Food / Malaysian / Melbourne CBD / Papparich / Restaurants
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