The gloves are off: Footscray dumpling houses go head to head
Lady LunchalotIn the red corner is 1+1 Dumpling Noodle, a member of the Footscray culinary elite – a Chinese food heavyweight, if you will. With thousands upon thousands of handmade dumplings under its...
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Why my husband is a truly, truly amazing man
Lady LunchalotYou’re never going to believe what O did last week. He called me before lunch last Wednesday to tell me that our Brisbane friends, Jo and Dave, were in town for the night and that as it...
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An Aperitif with Melbourne’s Martini Maestro
Lady LunchalotOn Sunday night I was lucky enough to be invited to a martini tasting at the Gin Palace. Zoeball’s boss, Vernon Chalker, (proprietor of some of my favourite bars in Melbourne including...
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Lunchalot returns
Lady LunchalotOk, I know I promised I’d write more regularly, but this year so far has been jam-packed with the arrival of Bubba Lunchalot, and new houses, and new kitchens of course! So now that my...
View ArticleWhy I love Yarraville
Lady LunchalotI recently wrote about some of the culinary discoveries I made around Melbourne during our exile from Yarraville. Now that I am back in the cosy bosom of Melbourne’s inner west I have...
View ArticleEating our way around NYC
Lady LunchalotThis post is a little late. In fact it’s very late, as it was well over a year ago that O and I went on a crazy one-week child-free splurge in New York City. But a friend is planning a...
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Melbourne’s newest speakeasy, Eau de Vie
Lady LunchalotWhen I first moved here I was told that Melbourne is the kind of city that keeps revealing itself to you over many years. I learned that newcomers often find Melbourne a difficult place...
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The Home Hotel: Great Yarra Valley Dining Hideaway
Lady LunchalotWe discovered a great little Yarra Valley dining hideaway today. Tucked away in Launching Place just outside Warburton, about an hour and a half outside Melbourne is a great country pub...
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Best Canberra Bakery
Lady Lunchalot Silo is a Canberra Bakery well worth a visit Ok, so I can’t unequivocally claim that this is THE best Canberra bakery, as I haven’t really tried that many, but it is really a truly...
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Careme gluten free sour cream shortcrust pastry review
Lady LunchalotFirst, I should say that neither me, nor any of my brood, are coeliac. We’ve all got cast iron digestion around here and we eat a fair whack of gluten in this house. It doesn’t seem to...
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