High Coffee Experience

“…we really enjoyed our first High Coffee experience and loved the twist to the traditional afternoon teas…”

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Playground Series: Fruits of the Earth

“…aptly named Fruits of the Earth, I think the Boy captured Mother Nature’s gifts perfectly on the plate…”

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Baking Frenzy Returns with aChai Tea Cake

“…I thought I would merge my newfound love of baking with my love of chai tea and create a Chai Tea Cake recipe…”

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Behold…Double Choc Lamingtons

“…the recipe not only makes a fine chocolate cake (which I’ll probably make again), it certainly added some colour and fun to Peanut’s party…”

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St Ali North @ Carlton North, VIC – Melbourne’s “Coffee King” Heads North

On January 11, 2013 By

St. Ali’s sister cafe in the north has finally opened up its big wide doors to the people of the north. Aptly named “North”, it’s attracting locals and wannabes far and wide :)

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Middle Fish @ Carlton, Melbourne – Reeling It In

On January 25, 2012 By

Newly established in Carlton, Middle Fish strives to bring to your table the best Southern Thai dishes in Melbourne. Just a little bit Melbourne, they’ve embraced the coffee culture and serve up pretty decent coffees as well.

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A Revisit to Seven Seeds @ Carlton, Melbourne

On August 10, 2011 By

Spoilt for choice and can’t decide where to go for breakfast this weekend? Why not head on down to the winner of Melbourne’s The Age Best Coffee Award 2011 winning cafe in Carlton for some simple fare and amazingly good coffee? Can’t decide between a latte or a macchiato? Do something different and have coffee from the clover machine instead :)

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Embrasse Review – A Sunday Lunch Part II @ Carlton

On January 3, 2011 By

“I absolutely loved that brioche! Full of butter and sooooo … toasty if you know what I mean …”

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Embrasse Review @ Carlton

On June 5, 2010 By


We drove round and round and round Carlton last Sunday…because the Boy wanted to surprise me… I had no idea where we were going.. I was just hungry… and I wanted to eat!


Turns out… I was being “surprised” for a [...]

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Namaste @ Lygon Street, Carlton – Round II

On September 2, 2009 By

The Boy took me to Namaste again!!!! I <3 him!!!

This time, I wasn’t vegetarian.. and I wanted to eat everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay not everything, but things I wanted to try the other day when I had no choice apart from vegetarian dishes… boo!

Started off with Dosa Stuff with Spinach [...]

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Brunetti’s @ Faraday Street, Carlton

On August 12, 2009 By

It’s always a good bet that if you don’t feel like going anywhere else for dessert, there’s always Brunetti’s.

On this occasion, it wasn’t so much that we had planned to go there, but more so that the original place we wanted to go, which was Il Dolce Fredo @ Lygon [...]

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Papa Gino’s @ Lygon Street, Carlton

On August 11, 2009 By

Laughter and fairy tales…

Sounds of giggles and “OMG”… “are you serious?”….

and…. lots of lub lub… “I lub chew!!!!”…. sayang sayang…

More than 20 years we have been friends and now our other halves join us for our madness… fun… No?

We decided to take the tourists to Lygon… Melbourne’s famed little Italian street…

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‘A Namaste Indian Restaurant @ Lygon Street, Carlton

On August 10, 2009 By

Because it was Sunday and it was the Goddess of Mercy’s Birthday (or enlightenment, I forget) the Boy took me to try a wonderful new (for us) Indian restaurant.

We went to ‘A Namaste in Carlton (Lygon Street).. just 2-3 stores down from Ying Thai II…

The menu was really cute.. [...]

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