Melbourne

A 2-post collection

Hot In The City

By Grant |  Feb 10, 2011  | australia, melbourne, restaurants-and-dining, february-2011
Every city in the world worth its salt has a China Town - that quintessential part of the city to which countless generations have flocked from the Middle Kingdom, enriching us all with foods, fashion, enterprise and a certain spice of life. Melbourne is particularly blessed with a vibrant and funky China Town that stretches several blocks of Little Bourke Street, offering every conceivable style of Chinese food from Szechuan, to Yum Cha (Dim Sum to most of the rest of the world) and more.
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Troika Bar - Melbourne

By Grant |  Sep 10, 2010  | australia, melbourne, bars-and-pubs, september-2010
Troika Bar Troika is a great little bar in Melbourne, which as a city has pretty much perfected the “Great Little Bar” realm. Troika has a funky late Soviet Union vibe, with one-time fashionable Cyrillic lettering scattered throughout its signs and menus. We had an awesome selection of drinks, I just wish I could remember their names. Many borrowed their “appellations” from famous characters and figures of the Russian and Soviet world.
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