Posts Tagged ‘dinner’
The Nicolini family have been affectionately referred to as the Pizza Kings of Melbourne since their humble beginnings with Pizza Espresso in 1997. Repeatedly voted the city’s best Pizzeria, they successfully revolutionized thick, cheap and greasy pizzas to “designer” pizzas with thinner, crispier crusts topped with gourmet ingredients. The business was subsequently sold in 2003 and the brothers moved onto trendier grounds to open Carlton Espresso in the same year, followed by nearby D.O.C. in 2007. The pizza story didn’t end there; with the opening of +39 and Espressino in 2009. Read More
Attica was on our list waiting patiently to be ticked off for some time but it never seemed to materialise until San Pellegrino announced its Top 100 World’s Best Restaurants List for 2011. Not only did Attica make it to the 53rd place, they were also the only Victorian restaurant on the list. Further to that, The Good Food Guide 2012 awarded Attica Restaurant of the Year with a score of 18/20; 3 Chef’s Hats. Read More
So it was getting late on Saturday night and nobody felt like cooking. We had Asian food not long ago and didn’t really feel like ordinary take-away once again. A quick discussion about cuisines and venues led us to a restaurant we passed on the way home that afternoon. Lipari Bistro is a small Italian restaurant amongst a group of shops on Canterbury Road in Heathmont we had been looking to try for quite some time now since moving into the neighbourhood. Also, I recently purchased a new DSLR camera and I was especially keen to try it out. Read More
It’s not often that we venture out to the city for an evening meal given the traffic, car parking difficulties and the inconvenience of distance. This was punctuated by the fact that an AFL final was on that evening and spectators streaming out of the Melbourne Cricket Ground would be on the prowl for dinner. Alas, this outing was for a special occasion and we always make exceptions for special occasions. For some, this meant paying top dollar for a car park even when they didn’t really need to. Read More
Looking for a place to eat can be a chore at times especially here in Melbourne. One of the benefits of living in such a multicultural, cosmopolitan city is the vast array of choices that are presented to us whenever we are looking for some place to eat. The downside is the same feeling we get browsing a video store or a library – what to watch and what to read. Once we’ve made that decision, we then look for a name that grabs our attention. This time, we did none of that. We wanted to eat Chinese, we wanted to go somewhere local and we didn’t want to spend too much time looking. We settled on an aptly named eatery by the simple name, Ringwood Chinese Restaurant. Read More