View Full Version : Your favourtie food places
My favourite stretch of food establishments is Centre Place (off Flinders Lane) in the city. There's about a dozen tres chic and kewl places to choose from.
I thought I'd test out the poll voting function for our newly "refurbished" forums.
What's your favourite location?
Fav's include:
YEN sushi and noodle (Centre Place)
VIS cafe (Swanston Street)
Donavans (St Kilda beach - special occasions only)
SoftBelly (Little Bourke St - includes a theatre in the back)
Tekno-Fluff
09-Apr-02, 12:58pm
Where ever there is KFC.....:P
limor's
maxy's
panda king
the bridge
QTPants' kitchen
;D
For Sunday brunch, my favourite meal of the week, I head to The Hideout on Brunswick St Fitzroy. Very good eggs benedict. Good poll elie9;) *I love food*
princess01
09-Apr-02, 01:23pm
borsch vodka & tears on chapel st, I'm still trying to work my way through their vodka menu
Tekno-Fluff
09-Apr-02, 01:30pm
steph....those Milkshakes from the Hideout are SOOOOOO tasty...:D
anywhere that has huge sized meals made with love....
Aren't they what Tekno-Fluff:D :D I can't wait for Sunday now....BRING ON THE BENEDICT.
Tran Tran on Victoria St.
Wicked Vietnamese food that is cheap as! :-0
The Flying Duck(Prahran-Bendigo St) - Best Pub Chicken Burger in town
Candy Bar(Greville St) - Best bowl of fries in town
The Rose Garden(Elizabeth St) - Best Chinese and value in city centre
The Green Dragon(Malvern Rd) - Best Chinese takeaway in sth yarra/prahran.
Stokehouse(St Kilda) - Best beach views on a warm weekend day and hot staff.
Rumbarellas(Brunswick St) - Best breakfast menu
The Curry Club(Bridge Rd) - Best Indian restaurant..aprt from one downstairs on Kings St in town...can't remember name...the town one has better service but more pricey...
Lorne Fish and chip shop....i don't reckon you can get good value or good fish in chips in melbourne....Torquay is good too
Waterfront(Casino Complex) - Best Seafood restaurant
Dorsio(American Psycho) - Best restaurant i've never eaten at but heards lots about.
Tekno-Fluff
09-Apr-02, 01:47pm
oh oh oh and also Blakes in Southgate....OMG $$$$$$ but the tastiest food you will ever have the pleasure of consuming.....if your lucky enuff to get someone to take you there......:D:D
Steph,
I love food too ;)
Drexciyan
09-Apr-02, 02:16pm
my mum's kitchen
you just can't beat home cooked authentic eye-talian cooking!
oh and anywhere with fresh seafood........the lobster cave in Beaumaris is pretty special.....
and Blakes in greville was nice too.
Ha Ha spot on sara! But I'd say the nonna's kitchen is where it's at....
But aside from that - give me a decent sushi bar any day of the week.
For example: 'The Plush Fish' @ Melbourne Uni (drools)
Aside from this - I love vegetarian orgasm in Smith Street, Fitzroy (Best tofu dishes in Melbourne!)
and vegie bar in brunswick street (These guys make awesome roti bread!)
Polecat
09-Apr-02, 03:16pm
For lunch in the city check out Fuel in Little Bourke st.
For dinner, thumbs up for Blakes on Greville!
Tofu can't be used in a 'best' food...'best' dish sentence.....perhaps 'tofu is "best" used to soak those kitchen spills if you have no handee towels'....i could do better but can't be bothered thinking....tofu....eeewwww <dry retch>...sorry...
Shut Up Whitey...
:)
Is Tofu Is Good!
mmmm
Tofu and peanut sauce...
Tofu and bean sprouts...
You have no taste :P
uhuhuhuhuh.
Everytime i mistakenly eat tofu i wish you were right and i actually didn't have taste.....oh no..i think im gonna dry retch again.....<burp>...phew that was close
I had a chomp at Bennigans on chapel st, great food. and also a thai joint along there just up from strange days which was also very delicious!
Mt best of list:
indian - Gogi's on Johnston st.
nepalese - Gurkhas on Glenferrie Rd
malaysian - Chinta Blues in St Kilda and Penang Coffe House in Hawthorn (a tie).
wood fired pizza - Blue Train at southbank
gluttony - Limors in Carnegie
thai - Master Thai on glenferrie road.
take out - Subway, footlong with meatballs aww yeah.
need to save for a year to go there but worth it - Radii at Hilton on the park (or Flower Drum in the city)
fish and chips - queenscliff fish and chips..voted No. 1 in the state.
chicken schnitzel roll - bulldozer cafe in sth melbourne.
best tofu - tofu shouldn't exist as a food.
gelati - the gelati store on lygon street near the park.
best sauce - tabasco of course nice and hot.
worst big plate/small food syndrome - Cafe Blu Pols greville st.
breakfast - North Road Pavilion big breakfast
and yes i do enjoy my food....
:)
cLoUdWaLkEr
09-Apr-02, 05:53pm
Nothing on Earth beats a Chicken Parmagiana from a local pub.
I haev to say that my mum's cooking is the best ever.. and Elie's mum's cooking is up there... also, Carlo's (Elie's sister) special salad's sure to the trick after a big night out...
Whitey you rock - Rose Garden is by far the best chinese in town!
Followed closely by Nam Looms 2 or Thy Thy 2 in Victoria Street (I think)
For the ultimate in expensive food and pervers heaven, you can't beat Australia on Collins.
BTW last weekend I was repairing a said piece of equipment at what is probably Melbournes premier Chinese Resturant, Flower Drum. Whilst minding my own I watched a chef walked past me carrying a large dirty metal plate containing a variety of what was hopefully meat portions. He then pulled out from under a fish tank what at first appeared to be a big piece a dirty metal. This was actually the mincer. With his unwashed hands a proceeded to plug the mincer to power, placed another tray (which came from the place where the mincer was hidden) under the mincer and then forced the meat in from the top. Time and time again I watched in shock horror as bits of minced meat landed on the dirty floor, only to be placed in the tray.
Once this operation was completed, any bits of meat left on the floor when the tray was removed were scooped back into the tray. The power plug was pulled, and with his boot, he gently kicked the mincer back to where it came from, and left.
I can only hope that the cooking process removes any sort of diseases here!!! Plus I would never eat there - ever!
And might I add... that I am ashamed of you Elie... If I was your mother, I would be devastated... How could you not give your mother a mention...
my mum can't cook!
... when you come over mate, that food is courtesy of the David Jones food group or The Big Group. She buys that catering :P
I'm going to hell for that one :D
you realise Elie, that now I am going to use that against you for ever... I can not believe you would actually reveal such a secret... so much for blood being thicker than water...
and you may have jepordised your chances of being ITM's poster of posters...
dissing mummy dearest is a morbid sin...
I guess you are going hungry from now on... well you could do with losing weight... :p
NO SOUP FOR YOU...
"losing weight"? there's nothing left in me mate.
.....oh you mean the skin and bone.
P.S. for the record: I love my mum ... and NO she doesn't buy any catering :P
sixthdegree
09-Apr-02, 09:51pm
sara...i'm with you on this..."Mum's Kitchen"...dying for a home cooked meal since i haven't had one since 1997. kicking myself i didn't inherit the ability to cook so well...but lucky me...knows how to turn a pressure cooker into charcoal.
alas, let's add to the list of places to eat:
Soho Spice - Wardour Street, Soho, W1, London, England, UK, Europe, Northern Hemisphere. New wave indian food never tasted so good. www.sohospice.co.uk (you'll die laughing).
a bit closer to home:
The Drunken Duck - Sassafras, VIC. FOR THE PANCAKE NAZI's out there who like syrup with mountain mist.
even closer to home:
Aya, High Street, Armadale. Bestest, most authentic Japanese (you'll love this one Pinke), with Tatami Rooms. Totemo ooishii desu yo!
phatlip
09-Apr-02, 10:58pm
daylesford fish and chip shop.....OMG!
mums kitchen
ciccolinas in st.kilda:blush:
Any place that combines 6 chunky meatballs in a bolonese sauce with your choice of salads all wrapped up in a U-gouged footlong roll.
rich x2
10-Apr-02, 09:55am
best eating spot in melbourne: my house...
otherwise:
take away noodles: camberwell express noodles
souvlaki: stalactites (next to club cartel)
nepalese: base camp on glenferrie rd - gotta have the goat
curry: tandoori den on camberwell rd
thai: that crazy place on barkly st (starts with a k) - don't want to know how they keep their margins so low
brett--
10-Apr-02, 10:49am
For a quick fix, you can't beat Topalino's on Fitzroy St.... Very nice food....
a_618allstarr
10-Apr-02, 01:51pm
Keep it 613.
I'm not living there anymore but.....
Mmmm.. I hope these are still around... has been a little while for a couple of them, but a few of my faves are:
Flowerdrum – Simply the best Chinese restaurant in Australia!!!!
Becco
La Madrague – Mond dieu!!
Wine Room at The George
Il Solito Posto
Places to avoid:
Felix
and here's why - http://www.royaltech.net/2000_12_17_archives.html#felix
a_618allstarr
10-Apr-02, 01:57pm
Oh... and on tofu..
Salt and Pepper Tofu at Ip's in Adelaide or at Golden Century in Sydney. Bomb squad material.
glad i'm not the only one who likes tofu...
the only one in melbourne Pinke...
you gonna make me? :mad: X(
He He, nah...
can't really be bothered, ya know ;)
yeah me neither....tofu still ruins a good thai green though...:p
I'll take you to the vegie orgasm, you'll soon change your mind.
Trust the Tofu!
i don't know Pinke...throwing up on you on our first date probably wouldn't leave a good impression...;)
LOL - I'll bring a bucket ;)
Alright. Adding my vote to team tofu, there is a restaraunt in Box Hill owned by Buddhists, I can't remember the name of it, but all their dishes are made from tofu, and all dishes are 'imitation' meats. i.e. chicken stirfry, steak and vegetables etc. but all tofu. This seemed VERY farkn wierd to me, and I had trouble coming to terms with eating soething with imitation tacked to the front of it, but I must say the taste was beautiful.
/me used to scoff at vegetarian establishments...then i went to veg out on fitzroy st. the shit they're doing with tofu will BLOW YOUR MIND :-D ;D
my question is...if it's imitation chicken...imitation beef...or imitation whatever...and you aren't a vegetarian, then why not just eat the real thing....i have no problem with vegetarians, and infact like a lot of vegetarian dishes...just don't like tofu, if you are a vegetarian wouldn't the thought of eating something that tastes like meat be a little off as well?
....it seems the tide of anti-tofu is turning...i'll leave the fray now so that i may fight another day...so i say adieu tofu, and tofu adieu
Prob. because...ummmm....dunno. Cause......ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........Oh; because they want to give the carnivorous diner something they can relate to. Yeah, that's it.:)
Originally posted by whitey
my question is...if it's imitation chicken...imitation beef...or imitation whatever...and you aren't a vegetarian, then why not just eat the real thing....i have no problem with vegetarians, and infact like a lot of vegetarian dishes...just don't like tofu, if you are a vegetarian wouldn't the thought of eating something that tastes like meat be a little off as well?
anyone who has spent five minutes with me in limor's will know how much i love my meat. but this food is meritorious not because it's a subsititute for meat or anything like that, but simply because it's tasty, well-made food!
kemicalboy
10-Apr-02, 03:56pm
pelegrines on friday make the best gnocchi in the world !!!
kemicalboy,
if you like your gnocchi ... try Hairy Canary for lunch ... they make THE BEST ... little Collins St behind RMIT School of Business.
yummy!
Originally posted by kemicalboy
pelegrines on friday make the best gnocchi in the world !!!
where's that kem?
gnocchi i likes ;D
"but this food is meritorious not because it's a subsititute for meat or anything like that, but simply because it's tasty, well-made food!"
Spoken like a true lover of food Ned :)
okay okay...good tasty food is good tasty food, no problem there....but a vegetarian eating beef flavoured tofu?..i dunno...ahh stuff it...each to their own...(yawn)...i'm just being argumentative for the sake of it...v. bored at work today, i'm going to have a meat pie.
Pelegrinis is Upper Bourke st between russell and spring st i think...very good authentic italian...with mumma cooking out the back and the sons yelling the orders back to her in Italian, from the counter, that place is damn cool
OMG Kemical Boy!
How could I forget Pelligrini's on Bourke...!!!
Man, my friend took me there one night for a coffee and cake, worst thing he could've done... I was back every night for the remainder of the week!
Not to mention, The Supper Club, tasty club sandwiches and awesome coffee...
And that place that me, drex, rivett, kitsu and glittergrrl went to after fringe - what was it? The waiter's something just across from metro???
mmmm
The Chilli Cafe on Russell between Bourke and Little Bourke is good as well....
PiNKe,
you talking about The Waiters Restaurant in Meyers Pl
nice!!!! great food isn't it?
Yes ELIE!
We went there after the fashion show...
It's great...
So authentic, pelligrini's still takes the cake, mmm I'm hungry...
thnks for the address guys *takes notes*
and yes, hairy canary is an old fave of mine :D
I like hot vindaloo curry that makes my ass burn for a week
sixthdegree
10-Apr-02, 06:58pm
pinkster..
u mean The Melbourne Supper Club, yeah?
awesome. i love the gigantic colombia pictures painting, and the circle window that looks out to parliament house. nice cheese platters with pate...gourmet ambiance...but not snobby..makes you want to wear a robe...and smoke a Romeo&Juliet.
our next place to procrastinate!
how tres melbourne cool.
Ms Degree yes I mean the Melbourne Supper Club... a 4am drinking sesh is in order there one morning...
a friend introduced me to that also and it was a similar experience to pelligrini's - ended up migrating there for a week :)
kemicalboy
11-Apr-02, 11:21am
hey elie,
r u up 4 a hairy canary Vs pelegrines gnocchi challenge ???!!! ;)
Originally posted by kemicalboy
hey elie,
r u up 4 a hairy canary Vs pelegrines gnocchi challenge ???!!! ;)
ooh ooh ooh can i be in that too? ;D
and can i also add to the list the gnocchi at umm...oh...can't remember the name...but it's a schmick place on brunswick st :D
ooh and if we're on brunswick st, elie, we might as well drop in on... ;) ;) ;)
a_618allstarr
11-Apr-02, 12:07pm
Damn... I barely remember the last time I was at the Supper Club.. the food and wine... lots of it.
Speaking of mock food, tofu stylee... There's a fantastic place on the fringe of the Queen Vic markets, I'd say opposite the entry to Cobden Street.. anyway, this place has been highly commended by vego/vegans for the mock stylee, and it is indeed well worth a visit.
the place in the Queen Vic Market me thinks is on Victoria street, really dodgy white place?
Can't remember the name of it.... something lotus??
Lots of mock vegetarian dishes...
Very nice....
There is also this great dodgy little asian place... where you can combust in for $10 in a Lane off Lonsdale street, between Russell and Swanston...
Awesome food, really dodgy, but I think they end up being the best places....
a_618allstarr
11-Apr-02, 12:14pm
White Lotus me thinks!
That's the one...
really nice stirfry dishes!
all this talk of food makes me hungry...
It's like when I'm at work and I sit looking at all the cooking books or travel books...
I either get hungry, have a sudden urge to cook or have a sudden urge to walk out of work and get on a plane...
sixthdegree
11-Apr-02, 12:36pm
pinke. you could always try the 'nigel last bites' cookbook. it has the most popular recipes :P i bet all the international dj's buy it off you before they embark.
i'd be sooo tempted to run through those big chrome doors at customs if i were you...and just jump on the next plane to wherever.
love the cookbooks, re: the tuscan cookbook. and have u seen the series of 'The Most Beautiful Places of..." ? if you see drool marks on the pages, they'd prolly be mine.
mmmm...travel writing. travel photography. coffee table books.
next stop: bordeaux
Come to my shop ms mash...
And yes working at the airport is the worst...
Although it's lots of fun mingling with foreigners trying to buy cigarettes (SCORE, our airport book shop sells ciggies !)
But it's sort of sad....
Like Day sof our lives or something...
Watching people say goodbye to each other (we're right near the silver doors)..
Yes I'm to do a runner one of these days... Right through those silver doors... I'll mug the nearest grandma for her plane ticket and outta here :o
Excitement....
Nigela Bites, now I don't like those books, what the international DJs see in them i'm yet to notice..
BUT Mash I have this awesome coffee table book story-come-cookbook.
France's Mayes 'Under the Tuscan Sun' IN A COOKBOOK COFFEE TABLE VERSION! (drools)
Ahhh Yes....
sixthdegree
11-Apr-02, 01:11pm
that's why they should move everything down to the internatioal arrivals section...tho, either way...yer gonna be crying....
I HAVE A STORY!
like this one time i went to pick someone up...it wasn't a busy hour of the day...so i scammed a seat and watched the crowd of enthusiasts...and this one guy was sitting next to me (kinda hot) with a single rose in his hand...He kept getting up and pacing around...looking hell nervous. and then...he saw her...
and it was one for the movies...
the look on his face...the look on her face...they both stopped...and then he ran up to her...not knowing what to do with himself...because...
he obviously hadn't seen her as pregnant as she was...
and he rubbed her belly...in amazement...she kissed him...and then he started crying...(from joy, i presume).
...and then i started crying:P
this couple was sooooo beyond ecstatic to see each other that you could actually feel the energy of their happiness. so beautiful.
(on the flipside...there are the goodbyes....won't even go there).
that was beautiful...sob sob....i'm leaving in July so if you want to come to the airport on July 8 it would be nice to see someone crying before i leave....make me feel missed....
It's full on Days of our Lives action, eh 6D?
Whitey - I'll probably be working at Collins Bookstore, come I'll give you free minties, that ought to make you feel loved ;)
lol...cool...make sure to wear a pink ribbon so i can recognise you...either that or i should hunt a few itmers down at various weekends....
Drexciyan
11-Apr-02, 01:44pm
there is a place called Da Giovanni's in Camberwell on Highfield Rd, nice and casual with some of the best eye-talian dishes around.
hmmmmmmseafood platter
on the overseas note, can one of you punks start saving i need a travelling party next year!
sixthdegree
11-Apr-02, 04:59pm
speaking of eating in camberwell...KUDOS near rivolli is excellent.
otherwise, drex...i get the travel bug all the time...so there's a pretty good chance you'll have me yapping in yer ear on a flight somewhere...someday....:D
Drex Lock It In!
I'm saving...
Saving my way outta here ;)
First stop Japan, second stop London, third stop Scotland, fourth stop Tuscany, fifth stop Spain, sixth stop France and then whatever road it may take....
Mayhem...
I gotta finish my course in one of those countries too uhuh...
Yes Lock it in!
Let's all get jobs at the Lonely Planet :)
We'll review the clubs in foreign countries and the hotel rooms...
Expenses paid....
Save our moula for beer, lots of beer...
I'd also love to go back to vanuata - that place was the bomb, french speaking locals and oh the drunken two nites...
sixthdegree
12-Apr-02, 12:06am
u know that mr lonely planet himself drives a sweet ferrari. (yes, I know, i can't stop saying that) there's one lap you could dance on...
his advice was "write when you travel". albeit some fine words, the recipe to success -given by successful people- always seems like a walk in the park, kazanski.
jobs at lonely planet...i'm on my way there now.:D join me! actually, i think once a year they have this writers competition or something like doing work experience with them...
fark...knew i should've paid attention! but apparently they're always looking for writers...according to...the wonderful man who can give the speediest speed freak a sudden bout of narcolepsy with his boringness...dr david dunstan.
suenomartino
12-Apr-02, 09:32am
white lotus on victoria st
the mock chicken in seseme seed is sensational.. I'd be willing to bet a meatatarian couldnt tell the difference with a pepsi challenge flesh test on this one
avoid the steamed mock ginger fish though :-* it smells funky (like the real thing i guess)
and to the person who doesn't do tofu.. where the %!$& have you been eating it? sounds like a beancurd freudian childhood experience there
suenomartino
12-Apr-02, 09:37am
here are a few others to check, dont know if anyone has mentioned them already
cafe baloo on russell st
morrocan soup kitchen nth fitzroy (awesome vego!)
bo de tran hopkins st footscray (vego vietnamese, place stinks though)
kum den and supper inn for cantonese - china town, city (both open til 2-3am)
the obligatory vegie bar in brunswick st, an institution
also have to recommend thai on charles (thai and pizza bar in one!) in seddon - being a local lad :)
and yes all of em serve good tofu ;)
peace
jason
a certain someone helped me discover another hot food spot last night. 7Eleven St. Kilda. It's not the place but rather the delight and taste bud experience that was:
CHOCOLATE PEATNUTBUTTER CUPS !
OH
MY
Farken
GOD!
1 is never enough!
Who is David Dunstan???:? ....there's a few links from the Lonely Planet website for other travle websites where a lot of travellers actually can post their travel tales..some of them make good reading..i've thought about trying to get into the whole lonely planet tip writer thing as well....i'm thinking of posting on some of the other travel sites and waiting to be discovered!!:p will try to find those sites and post them on here later...
The cakes and cafe's on acland street are a diner's heaven. There is one elie and i have eaten at and the food was amazing can't remeber the name, but i had the fettucine with cream, garlic, spring onions, fresh diced tomato and chicken breast fillets!!!!!!
YUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
and the baked ricotta cheese cake across the road at one of the continental cake shops AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-heart attack on a plate but lovin every bite at the same time!!!!!
Cheers!
SM - nice, the Moroccan Soup Kitchen indeed!
My friend had her birthday there, belly dancers and all...
Yum food!
ephectivelyphat
12-Apr-02, 03:43pm
Breakfast : Suede - Smith St Collingwood (Magnificent Coffee)
Small lunch : Cafe Bove - The Sandwich Company - Both on Little Collins St in da City.
Word Suenomartino - Cafe Baloo and Supper Inn are da biz!
Thai : Krua Thai - Toorak Rd Toorak (And they deliver - lazy stylee)
Indian : Moti Mahal - Glenferrie Rd Armadale & Betty's - Queen St South Melbz (Both divine)
Japanese : Koko's - Casino (Fairly expensive yet absolutely exquisite....... although I was incredibly sick afterwards due to copious amounts of shellfish,im obviously allergic but I couldnt contain myself!) & Birdcage - Fitzroy St, St Kilda.
Chez Phat - Haven't been there for some time yet it was dephinitely phat last visit.
The George - Fitzroy St, St Kilda (Always exceptional)
Cicciolina - Ackland St, St Kilda (Im hard)
Pizza : Smokehouse - Toorak Rd Toorak & Cafe e Taglio, St Kilda or if yo been nekin heaps of lager and yo be seekin some grease -chek Pinochio's - Chapel St Prahran
The Spud Bar - Lygon St Carlton
peace
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