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Chef David, Melbourne

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on September 12, 2021

Chef David is serving up a diverse mix of charcoal barbecue and hot pot-like fish dishes that are gaining fans far and wide due to the restaurant’s TikTok notoriety

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Osteria Ilaria, Melbourne

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on February 4, 2018February 4, 2018

If you’re not willing to balance precariously on a high stool at the bar or firm up your Thursday night plans six weeks in advance, Tipo 00 is off limits, which is why it made foodie news when the team behind the famed pasta bar opened sister restaurant Osteria Ilaria a few doors away.

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French Saloon, Melbourne [permanently closed]

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on January 14, 2018May 17, 2021

French Saloon is an airy and light-filled bistro that is perched atop Kirk’s Wine Bar — exemplifying much of the casual chic vibe that you find downstairs but with decidedly more flourish and pomp.

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Pezzo, Melbourne [permanently closed]

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on December 10, 2017May 17, 2021

Banish all thoughts of McCain’s cheese and bacon pizza pockets (as satisfying as they can be) because Melbourne chef Guy Grossi has opened up a casual eatery called Pezzo, which specialises in pizza pockets that house ingredients decidedly more gourmet than homebrand cheese and bacon – think calamari, polpette (meatballs) and cotoletta (veal breaded cutlet).

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Ides, Collingwood

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on November 19, 2017

A few happy hour wines deep one Friday night, Beer Jenga Master, Gingko Leaf Girl and I hatched the idea to form a Fine Dining Club.

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Garden State Hotel, Melbourne

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on August 20, 2017August 20, 2017

I’m not averse to lunch being my first meal of the day, especially on a Saturday, which is how I found myself at Garden State Hotel ordering a steak at the early hour of 11.45 in the morning.

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Mr Meng Chongqing Gourmet, Melbourne [permanently closed]

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on July 30, 2017May 17, 2021

I must be the person in my friendship circles who is least familiar with the cult favourite Chinese dating show If You Are The One and its host, Meng Fei, but I am familiar with the Melbourne dining scene and jumped at the opportunity to sample Mr Meng Chongqing Gourmet, the Chinese noodle chain’s first Australian restaurant.

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Gong De Lin, Melbourne

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on May 7, 2017May 7, 2017

It’s no secret that I prefer fake meat to real meat, which is how I found myself at Gong De Lin mid-last week.

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Fratelli Fresh, Melbourne [permanently closed]

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on April 23, 2017October 14, 2018

“This menu is designed to be shared” is a phrase that strikes fear into the heart of every FODMAP-intolerant person out there.

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Sarawak Kitchen, Melbourne

  • by Sonia Nair
  • Posted on April 9, 2017April 9, 2017

Having encountered minimal success with Malaysian food in Melbourne after more than a decade of living here, I’d resigned myself to enjoying the dishes of my childhood when a) I visit my parents or b) fly home for my annual food pilgrimage. That is, until I found Sarawak Kitchen.

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When you’re FODMAP and lactose-intolerant as well as lacking a somewhat vital organ such as a gallbladder, everything floats your bloat – tomatoes, eggplant, mature cheeses (so most good cheeses), wine, spinach, almond milk, every form of preserved meat (yes, that includes bacon), that little bit of ghee your mum slips into her dahl to make it taste all the better.

Bloat Scores

0 Living the dream

1 Had to loosen my belt a notch

2 The belt had to be completely removed

3 I could have balanced a glass of wine on my bloated stomach

4 If I were lying prostrate on my tummy, it would have looked as though I was levitating

5 So full of gas I floated home like a hot air balloon

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