Here’s my very quick reference on where to eat lunch. There’s a very big bias towards the Southern Cross end of the city because that’s where my work is.
Category: Melbourne
Great carbs of the Western Suburbs: Pandesal
The history of the colonisation of Asia is written in its bread. Pandesal, the national breakfast bread of the Philippines, was borne of Spanish colonial rule but processed by the USA. The bread came from the more Spanish pan de suelo, crusty “bread of the floor” cooked on the clay base of the oven from… Continue reading Great carbs of the Western Suburbs: Pandesal
Soyfoo Anh Long, Braybrook
Soyfoo Anh Long is a tofu shop on the vertiginous northern edge of Braybrook that drops into the Maribyrnong river valley, amongst the wrecking yards that advertise on hastily scrawled “Cash For Cars” signs stapled to a power pole. Their precast concrete panel factory was once neighboured by a business called “Hair Extension Online” who… Continue reading Soyfoo Anh Long, Braybrook
Footscray Market Opening Hours – Christmas 2015
I’ve now been blogging for 10 years. In that entire time the Footscray Market, one of Melbourne’s biggest wet markets, has never published their Christmas opening hours online. This post marks the 7th year of my Christmas vigil to celebrate it. Here are the opening hours as published on a photocopy on the door: As… Continue reading Footscray Market Opening Hours – Christmas 2015
Footscray Market Opening Hours – Christmas 2014
@phil_lees Nice. But when's the Footscray Market opening over Christmas this year? — Pat Nourse (@patnourse) December 3, 2014 Welcome to Year 6 of my Christmas vigil to commemorate Footscray Market’s complete inability to publish their Christmas/New Year’s opening hours online. Here are the opening hours, this year presented by the special request of Pat… Continue reading Footscray Market Opening Hours – Christmas 2014
Melbourne’s Oldest Restaurants
Melbourne’s oldest restaurant is Florentino (est.1928), if you count restaurants opened on the same site, serving the same cuisine under the same name. The oldest continuously running restaurant (as far as I could find) is Cuckoo Restaurant in Olinda (est.1958) which took over the site from Quamby (est.1914). Even though they’re important to local cuisine,… Continue reading Melbourne’s Oldest Restaurants
I want to eat here
1950s and 60s restaurant postcards via SwellMap. Click left and right on the photo to scroll. So many white people.
Footscray Market – Christmas Opening Hours 2013
Welcome to Year 5 of my Christmas vigil to commemorate Footscray Market’s inability to publish their Christmas/New Year’s opening hours online. Consider my annual dose of community service done. Here are the trading hours: Monday 23 December: 7:00am-4:00pm Tuesday 24 December (Christmas eve): 7:00am-4:00pm 25-26 December: Closed Friday 27 December: 7:00am – 7:00pm Saturday 28… Continue reading Footscray Market – Christmas Opening Hours 2013