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Barcelona by Mouth
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 5 August 2011
Earlier this week, I ate at Movida Acqui for the first time.This Spanish restaurant in Melbourne, Australia is the latest outpost of chef Frank Camorra's popular series of Movida restaurants, the first of which is in an alleyway next to the wildly decorated Forum Theatre.
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HOT Chat: Greg Ferrington of Westgate Community Initiatives Group Inc and LoveLuvo
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 4 August 2011
Regular readers will know that I love finding out about social enterprise businesses in Melbourne (such as STREAT, Charcoal Lane and The Social Studio) and recently I was told about LoveLuvo, a retail store with environmentally friendly products for the home and body (as well as a manufacturing business) which provides employment for those with [...]
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UNESCO World Heritage Site #144: Ningaloo Coast
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 3 August 2011
From the World Heritage inscription: The 604,500 hectare marine and terrestrial property of Ningaloo Coast, on the remote western coast of Australia, includes one of the longest near-shore reefs in the world. On land the site features an extensive karst system and network of underground caves and water courses. Annual gatherings of whale sharks occur [...]
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HOT – Home Store & Cafe – 20 Stewart Rd, Ashgrove.
Blog: BNE: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Brisbane - 3 August 2011
With only a vague idea of where we were heading, and a small battle with the street directory, MM and I had worked ourselves into a state of reluctance and mild anxiety as we made the trip to Home Store & Cafe in Ashgrove – a side of town we’re not too familiar with. Good [...]
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HOT: Third Wave Cafe, 189 Rouse St, Port Melbourne
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 2 August 2011
As many of you know, I’m not a coffee-drinker. What’s even stranger in a coffee-town such as Melbourne is that many of my friends are not coffee-drinkers either! Which means that there is a bit of a hole in my reviewing repertoire. Thankfully, my coffee-drinking friend M has returned from overseas and is a ready and [...]
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HOT: Pho Chu The, 264 Victoria St, Richmond
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 2 August 2011
Victoria Street Richmond is somewhere I only venture with a recommendation. There are just too many restaurants to choose from and life’s too short to be eating bad pho. My most reliable source of Vietnamese food recommendations is my Vietnamese friend J, a prolific eater-outerer and an excellent home cook. Since she got a car she’s [...]
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Meykadeh
Blog: food bling, Brisbane - 27 July 2011
It was Saturday and I needed to find somewhere for dinner. After our trip to Melbourne, and the amazing variety of restaurants down there, I was feeling a bit disillusioned with the usual restaurant suspects. After ruling out the standard Thai/Chinese/Indian/Italian/Vietnamese etc places, I spent an hour or so Googling some new places to go.
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HOT: Roll-Up
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 26 July 2011
No, we’re not talking about those nasty fruit rubbers! Roll-Up is a new bicycle valet parking service which is launching at State of Design. Instead of locking your bike up to the nearest lamp post, cyclists can get their bike valet parked for free by the fun-fair themed Roll-Up crew. It’s a great initiative as the [...]
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HOT: The Everleigh, Level 1, 150 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 25 July 2011
When I first moved to Melbourne straight out of university, one of my favourite bars was Jet Bar on Gertrude Street (anyone else remember it?). It was quiet, intimate and had a super-comfy red velvet chaise lounge near the front window. Hanging out there, listening to soft jazz, felt grown up. I don’t know what ever [...]
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HOT: Cupcake Central, Level 2 Melbourne Central Dining Hall, cnr Swanston and Latrobe Sts, Melbourne
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 24 July 2011
What would you do if you lost your job tomorrow? Sheryl Thai used to be an IT consultant. Then during the GFC two years ago, she was told that she no longer had a job. Not one to cry into her keyboard, Sheryl decided that it was time to fulfil her dream of owning a cupcake [...]
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Visiting Monkey Mia and Feeding the Dolphins
Blog: The Travel Project - 24 July 2011
Sharing some tips to help you be selected to feed the dolphins and our amazing experience visiting Monkey Mia in the World Heritage Listed Shark Bay in Western Australia.
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HOT: Made to Measure – Treadlie Handmade Bicycle Show, Design:Made:Trade, Royal Exhibition Building, 9 Nicholson St, Carlton
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 21 July 2011
As you all know by now, the theme for this year’s State of Design Festival is ‘design that moves’. So it’s fitting that part of Design : Made : Trade this year is an exhibition all about bikes. Specifically, Treadlie magazine contacted bicycle builders, from professionals to amateurs, and put together an exhibition of eighteen bicycles [...]
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Pic of the Week: Ferrying to Manly
Blog: Solo Traveler - 21 July 2011
This solo traveler took the ferry from Darling Harbour to Manly, capturing a shot with the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the background. A new article has been added to Solo Traveler
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HOT: Design Made Trade, Royal Exhibition Building, 9 Nicholson St, Carlton
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 21 July 2011
My favourite event during State of Design is Design : Made : Trade. It’s a showcase and market for small manufacturers and designer / makers, some local and some from interstate. Lighting, furniture, jewellery, stationery, ceramics, household goods – it’s all there. Some of my highlights this year: Karton. Living with a cardboard box never looked so [...]
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HOT: Look.Stop.Shop, State of Design 2011, Melbourne
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 20 July 2011
Look.Stop.Shop, a popular event from State of Design 2010, is back again this year with more looking, more stopping and more shopping! To refresh your memory, Look.Stop.Shop is a free, self-guided tour of window displays and in-store installations of some of Melbourne’s favourite retailers, from the flagship Melbourne Myer store to little independent boutiques hidden in [...]
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HOT: Chasing Kitsune, State of Design 2011
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 19 July 2011
Winter in Melbourne can be pretty grey, cold and miserable but it does bring with it some joys – festivals galore! One of my favourite festivals is State of Design, Victoria’s annual design festival. So get ready because from 20-31 July I’ll be bringing you lots of State of Design related blog posts. I’ve got my [...]
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Hot: Montra Thai Day Spa – 117 Annerley Rd, Dutton Park
Blog: BNE: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Brisbane - 18 July 2011
What better way to celebrate the start of my four day working week than wth a traditional Thai oil massage? I am a sucker for small business and have ridden or driven past Montra Thai Day Spa, a stand alone shopfront, almost everyday since it opened not too long ago…certainly within the last year. The road may [...]
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EVENT-Store Twenty3′s Birthday Party
Blog: The Travel Project - 18 July 2011
Store Twenty3 is turning 2 years old and they are celebrating by having a sweet as birthday party on the 20th of August at Wolfe Lane Bar (near king st, Perth).
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HOT: Wallis & Ed, 1 Bourke St, Melbourne
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 17 July 2011
With so many excellent restaurants to choose from in our city, Melbourne never really had a place in its heart for the Hard Rock Cafe. So the American chain’s prime location on the corner of Bourke Street and Spring Street has now been transformed into the chic space known as Wallis & Ed, named after, of [...]
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HOT: Story In A Cup, Shop 4, 9 Yarra Lane, South Yarra
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 14 July 2011
I know, I know, it’s hardly ice-cream weather at the moment (but forecast sunny today and tomorrow!). But I for one cannot resist ice-cream any time of year. Especially where you can help yourself! For this post I’m lumping frozen yoghurt in with ice-cream as in my mind they’re much the same, though frozen yoghurt is [...]
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HOT: Chez Dre, Rear of 285-287 Coventry St, South Melbourne
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 13 July 2011
Happy Bastille Day! While it’s not our national holiday, why not use it as an excuse to pop into new French boulangerie and patisserie Chez Dre? Right near the bustle of South Melbourne Markets and down a bluestone laneway you’ll find a little bit of pastry heaven. Chez Dre is a large space which makes good [...]
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Coming Home to Melbourne
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 12 July 2011
Hi all, I'm back. Did you miss me?Of course, due to the wonders of modern information technology I never quite went away.
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HOT – Dr Zhivago (An Epic Musical) – The Lyrical Theatre QPAC, Southbank.
Blog: BNE: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Brisbane - 11 July 2011
Reviewing live theatre whether it be stand up comedy, musicals, ballet and so on is always hard as one’s inclination towards it is such a personal thing. Something that is totally rocking in my opinion could be as entertaining as sticking a pen in your eye to someone else…hence, I was nervous to accept Brisbane [...]
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Photo Junket: The Nullarbor Plain, Australia
Blog: The Travel Project - 11 July 2011
The Nullarbor Plain appears at first to be an open wasteland, a shrine to a dead sea that once inhabited this part of the world. A place of isolation where thoughts of solitude dances with the notions of going walk-about. For this week’s photo junket I thought I’d take you on a road-trip across the Nullarbor, and for me, a trip down memory lane.
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HOT: Madame Truffles, 12-18 Yarra Place, South Melbourne
Blog: MEL: Hot or Not - 10 July 2011
Melburnians are often tagged as being the shoppers and foodies of Australia, so a pop up shop selling fresh Australian truffles is a most genius idea for our city. Madame Truffles has set up shop Thursday to Sunday 10am-6pm for the whole of July ie prime truffle season. Simon McCrudden and Bernadette Jenner are the brains [...]
