For me, the Gourmet Husbands dinner at Attica was an eye opening experience. As I begin to write this review, I am feeling significantly out of my depth, I don't even know where to start. Who am I to comment on a restaurant which attained the title of 2009 Restaurant of the Year in The Age Good Food Guide? Who am I to discuss the pros and cons of ingredients I've never ...

Flor is one of those restaurant/bars that got it right - it's hard to strike the right balance between casual bar and restaurant food, but when a place gets it right, it's fantastic. Flor used to be a bit more relaxed, a winebar that also served tapas. It changed hands recently and has cranked up the food side of things to serve more serious meals...

Once again, we needed an occasion spot. This time the celebration of me being a Gourmet Husband for two years, previous to that I was merely a Gourmet Fiance. The short list was whittled down to two: The Deanery, and Bistro Guillaume. We settled on the latter*, and made our way down to Crown on a sunny Saturday evening to check it out. ... Bistro Guillaume - 6th Mar 2009
A birthday indulgence

Step inside Bistro Guillaume and you're immediately hit by what it isn't: a gaudy, loud casino restaurant with ritzy glamour dishes and snooty wait staff.

Guillaume Brahimi's Melbourne venture is a probably a more understated venture than it's Sydney counterpart (although having not been yet, I can't really say that legitimately). Mind you,...

I must get my disclaimers out of the way at the start of this review. I have somewhat of an emotional attachment to Chin Chin's at Koto Moon. Sarah and I have been coming here for years, for birthdays, anniversaries, valentines days etc. We took our friends here when we got engaged; I even had my buck's dinner here.

With that out of the way it ...

The Italian word Enoteca has the literal translation: wine repository. This is something that Church St Enoteca in Richmond has taken to heart, with a wine list that would be called extensive if I were to understate it, but more on that later. As we wandered in from the cold Melbourne evening, we were cheerfully greeted and shown...

It was another impromptu Friday night dinner for Sarah and I after another kind of average work week. After ringing around and realising we weren't going to get a table anywhere with such late notice, we decided ...

It's been a little while since our actual visit to Comme, but we had a really enjoyable time so I thought it best to put a little something up here.

Dave and I discuss it briefly on Podcast #26, so check...

It had been a pretty average weekend, with work piling up and Sarah having a grand total of about 4.2 minutes free. After three very late nights infront of a computer, then a Monday at work, there was only one reasonable course of action. Out for dinner.

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Oysters and Bubbly

After spending a little time in Italy, it's hard to come home to cheesy Lygon st restaurants with the same worn out pizza and pasta menues. Enoteca Sileno couldn't be more different. There is so much more to Italian food when you're in Italy, and we're big fans of one of the few Italian restaurants in Melbourne that do real Italian food.