Friday, May 12th, 2006
The Yak Speakeasy has closed and I never got round to going there. Bars can be like that in Melbourne. But I met the new owner, Michelle, who’s going to preserve the place as an accoustic and country somethingorother venue, adding food. It opens in either a week or a fortnight. Meanwhile, I was pleased [...]
Beer, Fitzroy, Food, Gertrude / Langridge St, Pizza, Pubs and bars |
Saturday, March 25th, 2006
Yesterday my curiosity about this place prompted me to detour from my otherwise rigidly fixed route to work on my bike, in my suit. It doesn’t exactly leap out at you when driving past as the missing breakfastry of Abbotsford, and even after peering through this window last Sunday when it was closed, its true [...]
Beer, Collingwood, Food, Johnston St, Pizza, Pubs and bars, Thai, breakfasts, coffee |
Sunday, March 5th, 2006
Books for Cooks is a beautiful double-fronted Gertrude St shop full of 15,000 cook books and books about food and wine more generally. Its proprietor Tim White spent a decade at what is generally regarded as Melbourne’s leading law firm, Mallesons, and is not the most ebullient shopkeeper in the world, but his and [...]
Abbotsford identities, Fitzroy, Food, Gertrude / Langridge St, Italian, Pizza, Shops |