10 May

Under new owners, the former Fred Young of Kew has recently been renovated and transformed into Now & Then Café. Robert Castellani has also taken over as head chef. We picked three dishes from the lunch menu, though in addition to the main menu they have a selection of salads, pastries and sweets in a cabinet. They appeared slightly understaffed; the main waiter seemed to be run off his feet. The Cabo Tacos were corn tacos filled with baja snapper, avocado, sweet coleslaw and mayo ($17). They were quite...

14:59 / Food / Kew / Modern Australian / Now & Then Cafe / Restaurants
22 Jan

Special birthday celebrations are good cause for visiting quality restaurants, so we booked a table for the newly re-opened No. 8, now under the helm of John Lawson. This time we did something unusual and ordered an entree each on top of the mains. Entrees:- Tea smoked Goulburn River trout, pickled cucumber, lemon and rye bread ($21) - Wagyu beef carpaccio, anchovy, caper and popped amaranth ($24) - Portland black and blue tuna, black garlic, yuzu jam and aged soy ($22) - Portarlington mussels served with potato bread ($20) Mains: Me - Today's local fish...

18:23 / Food / Modern Australian / No. 8 by John Lawson / Restaurants / Southbank
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
15 Dec

My choice for lunch was the warmed lamb wrap ($19). Other dishes ordered were arancini, chicken and vegetable pie, chicken burger and summer salad. The balance in this wrap was much better than the chicken wrap from yesterday. The pesto marinated lamb was tender and flavourful, going nicely with the yoghurt sauce and tabouli. [gallery type="rectangular" ids="4956,4955,4950,4954,4953"] Vela Nine 9 A'Beckett St Inverloch, VIC, 3996 (03) 5674 1188 http://www.velanine.com.au ...

13:05 / Food / Inverloch / Modern Australian / Regional Victoria / Restaurants / Vela Nine
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