The team of artisan chocolatiers at Gânache Chocolate South Yarra, led by Master Chocolatier, Arno Backes, have now introduced a chocolate high tea. Available from 12-5pm every day, and at $35pp, or $45 with a cocktail, the high tea offering at Ganache Chocolate is a steal and the chocolate-lover’s dream. ...
Sitting on River St and aptly named Stepping Stone, the name represents their food philosophy: STONE stands for Seasonal, Traceable, Organic, Natural, and Ethical. People who follow the lifestyle, they dotingly call ‘stoners’. It’s the latest venue from Clare Hu (Bluff Town, The Resident Cafe). The textures and flavours of the quality, locally-sourced ingredients are showcased by using simple cooking techniques; ingredients are kept to ‘al dente’ when possible, to preserve the flavour and texture of them in their natural state. ...
Two Birds One Stone generated plenty of buzz when it first opened, as it came the team who started up ever-busy Three Bags Full and also Liar Liar in Hawthorn. It's been four years, but Two Birds One Stone is still as popular as ever. The square-shaped cafe is neatly broken up into two sections: the dining area, and the counter and coffee bar. A central communal table is surrounded by smaller tables on one side, and cosy alcove seating on the other. A frontage made completely of...
21 years ago, TGI Fridays, the international casual dining giant, had its beginnings in Australia at the Jam Factory on Chapel Street. It’s been a while since I last came to TGIs, and there’ve been many new dishes added to their repertoire....
Discreetly opening up earlier this year, Tu has been a quiet achiever. Owner TJ has lived and worked in France for a long time, setting up food and hospitality businesses before coming back to Melbourne for good. His vision for Tu is to do French like the French do. French food is not all about expensive menus, heavy dishes and stuffy atmospheres like some of us might imagine, and he saw that Melbourne is missing the more typical, casual style of French dining that is more commonplace there...