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Kimchi Grandma Restaurant @Carnegie, Victoria

2016-08-13-21-20-37After a long day trip of feeding pelicans and watching penguins come home at Phillip Island, we were hunting for a late dinner on our way back to Melbourne CBD, and XY brought us to his favourite Korean restaurant, which he said was cheap and good!

This is a simple restaurant in the neighbourhood of Carnegie 16km south-east of Melbourne CBD, with simple decor but serves up authentic delicious Korean dishes with warm hospitality.

As in the case of traditional Korean restaurants, the appetizers came in generous portions and were yummy too, and refillable! It was also fortunate that we came as a group of 5, for the portions of the main dishes were huge!

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​The Cape Kitchen @Phillip Island, Victoria

2016-08-13-12-53-59After we fed the pelicans and toured the Chocolate Factory on Phillip Island, it’s time to find lunch!

A quick search on Google brought us to The Cape Kitchen and we gotta say, the ocean view from the restaurant was awesome!!

This is also a popular place for weddings and celebrations apparently because it offers breathtaking views of the Southern Ocean and coastline with a menu that is focussed on what is in-season as well as introducing unique Australian flavours.

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​Top Paddock @Richmond, Melbourne

2016-08-13-08-28-57Before the start of our day-trip to Philip Island, we needed to have some good breakfast!

Top Paddock has been the darling of breakfast places since it’s opening (Zomato, TripAdvisor, Yelp etc.), and so here we were!

We took Tram 75 from Flinders Street to East Richmond Station (Stop 11) and decided to take an easy stroll along the straight road past 4 tram stops to this place.

Having arrived around 7.50am, we were a bit early, but they had a section opened up for customers to wait. Strangely they open an hour later at 8am on weekends than on weekdays when they open at 7am.

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​Roule Galette @Flinders Lane, Melbourne

2016-08-12-20-20-42We were looking for a place to warm ourselves up after a free tram ride back to the CBD area from watching the fireworks display at Docklands Waterfront. We stumbled across this cozy place which was still opened while looking for a cafe, and the French crepes called out to us!

This quaint little cafe is located in a small alley at the end of Port Phillip Arcade and has 3, 4 small tables inside with another couple outside. Google describes it as a Busy, cosy French creperie with a warm vibe, offering sweet and savoury options, cider and wine. And Google is right! The service is warm and people are friendly!

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BangPop @South Wharf, Melbourne

wp-image-780699807jpg.jpgThis was a rather atas-looking Thai restaurant, with ATMs located within the restaurant 😮 But we wanted to grab dinner fast, before walking over to Docklands for a good spot to watch fireworks display, so we decided to just head into it.

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​The Quarter @Degraves Street, Melbourne

2016-08-12-07-26-09Degraves Street appeared to be a most happening place, with an entire street filled with breakfast options, and today was the day to try it out!

We ended up at The Quarter, and tried the (clockwise from top leftSunny Side Up (2 fried eggs with bacon and hash browns, served on toasted sourdough) (A$12.50), Haloumi Eggs (2 poached eggs served on haloumi, accompanied with basil pesto & sourdough toast, topped off w Spartan olive oil) (A$13), Eggs Florentine (2 poached eggs, double smoked gypsy ham on toasted English muffins + hollandaise sauce) (A$15.50), and Brioche Special (2 soft poached eggs, with spinach on toasted brioche spread with goats cheese & drizzled with Dijon mustard mayo) (A$17).

Such an eggy breakfast! Well, as usual, the eggs were always fantastic, and the veggies were super fresh.

What stood out was the vibe of the place; it was a Friday morning, and this lively place was just so filled with people chatting away! Somehow, we were all caught up in it and time flew by real quickly.

Contact:

  • Location: 27-31 Degraves Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia (Google Map)
  • Websitethequarter.com.au
  • Directions: Take any public transport to Flinders Street Station and Degraves Street is just opposite the station across Flinders Street.
  • Hrs: 7am – 9:30pm (Mon-Thu), 7am – 10:30pm (Fri-Sat), 8am – 9:30pm (Sun)
  • ReservationOnline Reservation via DIMMI
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​Seasons Provedore @Lygon Street, Melbourne

2016-08-11-14-47-25We were walking along Lygon Street (known as Little Italy in Melbourne) after our morning trip to Brighton Beach, trying to figure out which of the (many) Italian restaurant we should try, when JJ pointed out Seasons Provedore to us, as she had dined here before with good experience.

Trusting her precious good experience, we decided to have our lunch here too.

The Chicken Curry Pie (A$10.50) was a gorgeous huge pie served warmed, with buttery pastry and oh-so-juicy huge chicken chunks filling up the pie entirely, and curry filling up the gaps! This is how chicken pies should be, filled with huge chicken chunks instead of potatoes and frozen peas and carrots. Oh, and this is an award-winning pie!

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​Hopetoun Tea Rooms @Collins Street, Melbourne

2016-08-11-09-00-31So we past by The Block Arcade during our walking tour on our first day in Melbourne and the beautiful display of cakes and tarts, as well as the classic decor of an English tea room at Hopetoun Tea Rooms wowed us (not to mention the snaking queue outside the cafe)!

So we made a secret pact to come back here for it’s popular 3-tier High Tea (everyday from 10am-2:30pm). But when we found out that the High Tea was fully booked months ago (and also the prohibitive price of A$50 per person), we decided we would just come back for breakfast since we stayed very near.

And so here we are today, early in the morning at 9am, the 3rd customers of the day at the tea room! 🙂

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​Minamishima @Richmond, Melbourne

2016-08-10-19-22-32We were put on waiting list for this very popular Japanese restaurant that only serves dinner omakase, and were delighted when we received a call the day before that there was a table available at 7.30pm! We were so excited and decided to give up having dinner at the Queen Victoria Winter Night Market.

It was an easy tram ride to Richmond, and though we arrived 30 minutes ahead of time, we were ushered to our table to rest in the warmth of the restaurant.

There were some specials available today, but we decided to just stick to the standard omakase meal of A$150.

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​Manchester Press @Rankins Lane, Melbourne

2016-08-10-14-57-40Located in a little alley, we decided to have our coffee break here, after searching through Google ratings!

Truth be told, we had wanted to go Brother Baba Budan (higher rating, haha) but it was very crowded and didn’t looked like it’s a place for sit-downs. So we wandered along and suddenly caught sight of the MP signboard when we peered into the little alley..

And so we had, clockwise from top left:

  • Matcha Latte (A$5): This was a very smooth cup of matcha latte, not overly sweet, and it had an ending tone of slightly bitter matcha flavour. We liked it!
  • Hot Chocolate (A$4): A rich and sweeter chocolate drink compared to what we had at Waves Port Campbell.
  • Flat White (A$4): Smooth and milky, not bad at all.
  • Mocha (A$4.50): A stronger cup of coffee. My first sip of mocha, so not very sure if it was good or not.
  • Blueberry Muffin (A$4.8): We gathered that bagels were definitely more popular than muffins, for our blueberry muffin became a blueberry bagel when served! Haha, maybe we should not have clarified and sticked with the bagel, for the muffin was super sweet! The blueberries were very juicy though.

This was a rather large cafe with nice wall art, and it was not crowded during the afternoon that we were here, so we could chill here till we felt fully recharged!

Contact:

  • Location: 8 Rankins Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia (Google Map)
  • Websitewww.facebook.com/manchesterpress
  • Directions: Take the (free) tram to Burke Street Mall and walk along Little Burke Street before turning left into the small Rankins Lane.
  • Hrs: 7am – 5pm (Mon-Fri), 9am – 5pm (Sat-Sun)
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