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

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

I have seen the Bulgarian Ambassador

Originally sent: 2 February 2006 About this series Happy Australia Day and Lunar New Year! M and I celebrated by going to the Australian Embassy function at Phnom Penh’s most expensive hotel, Raffles, and drinking imported stubbies of Victoria Bitter at their expense. Thanks again, foolish Australian taxpayer. The Australian Embassy paid Raffles to serve… Continue reading I have seen the Bulgarian Ambassador

Your tax dollars buy my aid junket

Originally sent: 29 December 2005 About this series After getting back here from Australia, I had a trip to Sihanoukville for Australian Volunteers “In Country Meeting” which I could only describe as an “utterly pointless AusAid-funded junket”. I used those exact words on the evaluation sheet of the meeting, so hopefully it will filter back… Continue reading Your tax dollars buy my aid junket

Selling raw human misery to Quincy Jones

Originally sent: 22 November 2005. About this series My bizarre marketing task for the month has been deciding how to suitably horrify Quincy Jones. For those of you playing at home, Quincy Jones is the all-time most nominated Grammy artist with a total of 77 nominations and 27 winning Grammys. He has won an Emmy… Continue reading Selling raw human misery to Quincy Jones

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