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melbourne for 2009

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We spent four days in Melbourne last week, mainly because it was our last interstate babymoon, but also because Kitty wanted to see the Dali exhibit and visit her brother.

The Dali exhibit was good, but way too crowded, and we didn’t even go on a weekend. There was a lot of variation which was good, but we expected a lot more of his surrealist works.

The rest of Melbourne was same same. The weather was crap (rainy and cold), the hotel (Hilton on the Park) was good, the street art hasn’t changed much, but the Rose St Markets were cool. We had a really great meal at Pacific Seafood & BBQ House at South Yarra.

We probably won’t be back to Melbourne for some time, which I am glad about in some ways. One final word of warning, “fly Tiger airways? Australia says No“.

melbourne in three days – shopping

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There are three main shopping areas I personally like to visit in Melbourne.

Bridge Road, Richmond

Bridge road has a good variety of stores including some outlets. I love the Body Shop outlet (the only one in Australia I believe) and Macro Wholefoods (which Brisbane sadly misses out on). Kitty loves the Mimco outlet, aptly named ‘Mimco Aisle’.

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Brunswick Street & Gertrude Street, Fitzroy

The Fitzroy stores are more eclectic than the stores at Bridge road. The Brunswick Street Bookstore (business card below) is a good place to visit, so is Industria at 202 Gertrude Street. The original T2 store is in Brunswick Street too.

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Melbourne City

Little Collins Street has some great little stores, one of them being ‘Little Salon’ (below). DFO at Southern Cross station is worth a visit as it is so handy to the city.

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melbourne in three days – food

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Kit and I spent the weekend in Melbourne. One of my favourite things about Melbourne is the food. The variety and quality is hard to beat.

Supper Inn was really tasty and popular on Friday night, they were turning away the crowds as usual. We had salt & pepper king prawns, stir fried kai-lan with garlic (yum) and steamed rice. It was simple Cantonese food, but so fresh and full of flavour. The menu is comprehensive with lots of specialties including crispy pigeon, which we avoided.

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Liagon street was as good as usual. We tried Trotters on Saturday night. Nice, but not as good as Tiamos for Sunday lunch. Tiamo’s does really good simple pastas. Tiamo’s sister restaurant, Tiamo 2, is currently closed due to renovations but due to reopen soon.

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Flinders street station is amazingly busy. This busyness supports specialist food places, including one that predominantly sells fries. Chips is a better description, fat ones. Handcut and served in either cardboard cones or boxes. Your choice of sauce and less than five bucks.

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Brunswick Street Fitzroy, like a lot of the city, was grotty. We still found a great modern Vietnamese place for lunch called Red Rice. Apparently they do red rice, we saw it being delivered to another table. The food was great, not your typical Vietnamese. We had two appetizers each, plus a large serve of Asian salad greens with a Vietnamese dressing.

The only thing I dislike about food in Melbourne is the acceptance of smoking in outdoor eating areas. The weather was beautiful, we would have loved to eat outside except that we didn’t want someone’s dirty cigarette ruining our meal.