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Finding a decent Mornington Peninsula brunch isn’t easy, especially before the main summer holiday season sets in. After an extraordinary degustation lunch at Ten Minutes By Tractor the day before, we couldn’t possibly fit in [Read more...]

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An emerging pre-Christmas tradition is a catch-up with fellow intrepid traveller and colleague Ishtar. Over a couple of courses and a glass of wine we chat about where we’ve been in the year gone by [Read more...]

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A year ago, Greedy Girl and gluttonous husband accompanied a group of friends to Grossi Florentino upstairs for a birthday celebration. It was such an excellent experience of Italian fine dining, we decided to book [Read more...]

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This restaurant is now closed. Given Greedy Girl works in marketing in her day job, she’s always fascinated by how restaurants get their ‘buzz’. One such establishment in Melbourne with plenty of buzz is Oter. [Read more...]

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Greedy Girl and gluttonous husband had a debate on the train heading for L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon Bangkok. He was certain this was sampling the L’Atelier brand in our fifth country. Greedy Girl was of [Read more...]

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In long ago times, Flinders Lane was the epicentre of Melbourne’s rag trade. Design houses, fabric retailers, wholesalers, buttons and notions; it was literally the fashionable place to be. It’s very easy to still call [Read more...]

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The western end of the city of Melbourne has been a fairly lacklustre destination for foodies. While there’s an enormous amount of development in the Docklands precinct, just a block further west, Spencer Street has [Read more...]

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Our first night in this seat of power, we caught up with our foodie friend and local resident Lisa Marie for drinks and snacks. She suggested we try one of the waterfront eateries, down on [Read more...]

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Given what Bali is all about, we didn’t expect to find much in the way of fine dining. Our experience of beach clubs (see the post about La Laguna here) indicated that the food was [Read more...]

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Edgartown is arguably the biggest town on Martha’s Vineyard, home to streets of pretty shops with cottagey wares, as well as the usual tourist paraphernalia. The architectural style across the island is very consistent. Like [Read more...]

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