Well here I am in Melbourne. If Freo for me is about music [not counting family and friends that is] Melbourne seems to be about food - not counting friends of course.
So far I have found an interesting little cafe called Gypsey and Musquito in Bridge Rd the wide bit of Bridge Road where you can eat native Oz food. I needed breakfast so I have FIELD MUSHROOMS DRIZZLED WITH SMOKED PAPERBARK OIL on gluten free toast with rocket. It was the strange oil that made it as it was a lovely astringent oil that set off the big brown mushroom taste wonderfully. The rest of the food in the cafe was intriguing. Strange rectangular pies with pointy sides full of strange things. Omelettes with unusual Oz ingredients. And the essential pale and interesting looking waitress with hair piled on top of her head in artistic chaos and dressed in vintage oddments And an earnest young man. Very nice.
Bridge Rd not as lovely as it used to be. Too many For Sale signs and Sale signs and 70% off signs as in most places at the moment.
But Thomas Dux which took over from Macro next to Cotton On outlet has heaps of lovely healthy products to take home. Expensive but...........
I also went with a friend and 2 of his friends to the Lord Ram Birthday on Sunday night at the Hari temple in Dunk St in Sth Melbourne. Not used to queueing for half an hour in a long twisting row with Krishna devotees and families to get upstairs to the room where two rows of hungry people are given food by six men each side with different dishes to place on your...receptacle. Ram was one of Krishna's incarnations of course......
You are best off taking your own large plate as they provide a thin cardboard fold up rectangular thing which they fill with various things including the dessert. It lasts almost as long as you need to finish the meal and it is quite dangerous to walk downstairs with it past lots of wiggling giggling little Indian children.
We had to eat sitting on the edge of the garden as the usual week time hall was over full of cross- legged devotees. There is a temple room on the way to the food which looks just like Bollywood all golds and yellows and reds with people dancing to spiritual chants. My friends were not into that part of it so we did not go in.
Other wise there is Crossways the Hari place upstairs in Swanston St which is great for lunch and Gopals which has longer hours and where you have to be more careful what you chose as it can get a bit more expensive by Hari standards. The food is reliable and you can go back and refill as often as you dare. That is more of a man thing.
The next place to eat is Friends of the Earth in Smith St on the right just before..... Johnson St. It is all organic or biodynamic and has had the same cook for years whose name escapes me. I worked there as a vollie when I lived in Melbourne - in the book shop which is now part of the cafe. That will be my next lunch out. And my next edition.
So far I have found an interesting little cafe called Gypsey and Musquito in Bridge Rd the wide bit of Bridge Road where you can eat native Oz food. I needed breakfast so I have FIELD MUSHROOMS DRIZZLED WITH SMOKED PAPERBARK OIL on gluten free toast with rocket. It was the strange oil that made it as it was a lovely astringent oil that set off the big brown mushroom taste wonderfully. The rest of the food in the cafe was intriguing. Strange rectangular pies with pointy sides full of strange things. Omelettes with unusual Oz ingredients. And the essential pale and interesting looking waitress with hair piled on top of her head in artistic chaos and dressed in vintage oddments And an earnest young man. Very nice.
Bridge Rd not as lovely as it used to be. Too many For Sale signs and Sale signs and 70% off signs as in most places at the moment.
But Thomas Dux which took over from Macro next to Cotton On outlet has heaps of lovely healthy products to take home. Expensive but...........
I also went with a friend and 2 of his friends to the Lord Ram Birthday on Sunday night at the Hari temple in Dunk St in Sth Melbourne. Not used to queueing for half an hour in a long twisting row with Krishna devotees and families to get upstairs to the room where two rows of hungry people are given food by six men each side with different dishes to place on your...receptacle. Ram was one of Krishna's incarnations of course......
You are best off taking your own large plate as they provide a thin cardboard fold up rectangular thing which they fill with various things including the dessert. It lasts almost as long as you need to finish the meal and it is quite dangerous to walk downstairs with it past lots of wiggling giggling little Indian children.
We had to eat sitting on the edge of the garden as the usual week time hall was over full of cross- legged devotees. There is a temple room on the way to the food which looks just like Bollywood all golds and yellows and reds with people dancing to spiritual chants. My friends were not into that part of it so we did not go in.
Other wise there is Crossways the Hari place upstairs in Swanston St which is great for lunch and Gopals which has longer hours and where you have to be more careful what you chose as it can get a bit more expensive by Hari standards. The food is reliable and you can go back and refill as often as you dare. That is more of a man thing.
The next place to eat is Friends of the Earth in Smith St on the right just before..... Johnson St. It is all organic or biodynamic and has had the same cook for years whose name escapes me. I worked there as a vollie when I lived in Melbourne - in the book shop which is now part of the cafe. That will be my next lunch out. And my next edition.
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