Friday, April 16, 2010

Il Solito Posto

Located on Collins Street in Melbourne, Il Solito Posto features a lively bistro/bar and an a la carte restaurant. Il Solito Posto is open six days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The bistro offers Italian classics like salt cod fritti, octopus bruschetta, linguini fruitti di mare, farfalle salmon and others. The restaurant downstairs offers a fine dining menu in a more formal setting.

Grossi Florentino Restaurant

Grossi Florentino Restaurant is an elegant restaurant located on the first floor of Grossi Florentino on Bourke Street in Melbourne. The restaurant features fine Italian dishes like kingfish carpaccio, rabbit and pork terrine, zucchini flowers, toasted flour fettuccine carbonara, 250 day grain fed beef rib and more. The restaurant also offers an eight course tasting menu at $185 per person and $265 per person with matching wines.

Hanabishi Japanese Restaurant

Located on King Street, Hanabishi Japanese Restaurant is Melbourne’s most popular Japanese restaurant. This restaurant offers authentic Japanese cuisine to locals and tourist alike. The cooking is consistently very good – using only the finest seasonal ingredients. If you are not sure of what to order from their extensive menu, friendly staff will knowledgeably suggest dishes and drinks.

Grossi Florentino Grill

Grossi Florentino Grill is located on the ground floor of Grossi Florentino, on Bourke Street in Melbourne. The Grill offers modern Italian style dining and prides itself for serving simple food using fresh local ingredients with quick service.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Grossi Florentino Cellar Bar

Grossi Florentino Cellar Bar is the most casual restaurant housed at Grossi Florentino. There is a fine dining Restaurant which is located on the first floor and the Grill next door. The Cellar Bar is open six days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Cellar Bar offers traditional Italian fare like salted cod croquettes, spaghetti Bolognese, crumbed veal and more.

Gopals Pure Vegetarian

Located on Swanston Street in Melbourne, Gopals Pure Vegetarian restaurant was established in the early eighties and is still going strong. Gopals is a buffet-style restaurant serving pure vegetarian and vegan food prepared according to Hare Krishna principles.

Felt Restaurant

Felt Restaurant is tucked away inside the boutique and classy Hotel Lindrum on Flinders Street in Melbourne. The restaurant offers buffet and a la carte menu for breakfast seven days a week. Felt serves fine Modern Australian dishes created using fresh ingredients and produce for dinner daily.

Eat Drink Bento

Situated on Hardware Street in Melbourne, Eat Drink Bento offers quality Japanese cuisine combined with other Asian flavours. The stylish venue opens for breakfast, lunch and dinner from Monday to Friday. Recommended dishes include wagyu beef (chargrilled to a delicious medium rare, served with chunky salad, pickled seaweed & a drizzling of sesame sauce), soft shell crab, kani croquettes (creamy crab & potato croquettes), takoyaki (ball-shaped dumplings made with baby octopus, topped with Japanese mayonnaise, barbeque sauce & bonito shavings), saka no furai (crumbed fish pieces served with tonkatsu sauce on a salad base) and miso seafood hot pot.

Degraves Espresso Bar

Degraves Espresso Bar is located on Degraves Street, an alley near Flinders Station in Melbourne. Degraves offers excellent eggs and coffee for breakfast and Panini for lunch.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Bottega

Bottega is located on Bourke Street in Melbourne. The restaurant offers modern Italian cuisine and is driven by fresh and good quality produce. star dishes include sucking Rutherglan lamb, sage, sweetbread, eggplant, caponata and pancetta wrapped scallops, truffled mash, sauce vierge.

Bokchoy Tang

Bokchoy Tang is situated on Level 3 of the Crossbar Building at Melbourne’s renowned Federation Square. Bokchoy Tang is a relaxed and chic restaurant offering contemporary Chinese cuisine. Although the restaurant’s menu features heavily on steamed food, hand-made dumplings and fresh seafood, there are large selections of vegetarian, poultry and meat dishes as well. The restaurant prides itself for using only free-range eggs and poultry and organic produce.

Bistrot d’Orsay

Located next door to Athenaeum Theatre and directly opposite Regent Theatre on Collins Street in Melbourne, the location of Bistrot d’Orsay is handy for pre-theatre dinners. The dimly lit restaurant exudes an intimate and cosy atmosphere. Bistrot d’Orsay features French classics like bouillabaisse and crème brulee and Mediterranean dishes like seafood linguini and risotto.

Bistro Vite

Bistro Vite is located on River Level in Southgate Complex in Southbank. Craving for French food but prefer something less formal? Bistro Vite is the perfect place for you. The restaurant offers delicious French inspired food everything from Boeuf Bourguignon to steak tartare. Bistro Vite is a perfect venue for informal lunches, romantic dinner for two and lively nights out with groups of friends.

Bhoj Indian Restaurant

Located in New Quay by the water, Bhoj Docklands is a modern and stylish Indian Restaurant offering quality Indian cuisine. Inside, the restaurant has large windows allowing generous views of Melbourne city skyline, Victoria Harbour, Etihad Stadium and the Bolte Bridge.

Benito's

Benito’s Wine Bar / Coffee Shop is located on Little Collins Street in Melbourne. Benito’s features Italian home-style cooking that is made on site from scratch. Benito’s is opened on weekdays for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The friendly service and the very good food attract a regular clientele. We recommend the spaghetti marinara and eggs benedict.

Becco

Becco is located on a street off Little Bourke Street in Melbourne - Crossley Street. Becco features a long terraced dining room. The restaurant offers fine Italian dishes accompanied by Italian and Australian wines.

Bamboo House

Bamboo House is located on Little Bourke Street in Melbourne. Bamboo House specializes in northern Chinese cuisine. The restaurant offers a varied and exciting Chinese dishes - definitely something for everybody. Recommended dishes include tea smoked duck, Peking duck, pot stickers and steamed scampi with a delicate garlic sauce. Feeling adventurous? Try the shredded pork with jellyfish.