COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Carols by Candlelight
Gisborne and New Gisborne primary schools and a choir will perform at Carols by Candlelight on Sunday, December 10 from 6pm at...
Kenny Weir took a left turn one Friday … and found heaven at Searz...
Some of our hottest meals are deeply rooted in the most whimsical decisions … so it is tonight.
Turn left at the end of the...
Kenny Weir finds a Punjabi culinary mix made in heaven at Sada Bahaar
When Sadia Kiyani arrived here from Pakistani Punjab about four years ago, she soon realised she would need a driver’s licence.
Her driving instructor, Ravinder...
Kenny Weir finds there’s room for one more cafe, Dumbo Melbourne
Like Lot 10 Eatery, Dumbo is a new arrival in the WeFo neighbourhood.
They join West 48, Pod@PID, Brother Nancy and Jellybread.
This is some fairly...
Consider the Sauce: Somali Star Cafe offers unfussy, enjoyable food
The Footscray Hub arcade mostly seems wonderfully timeless and very African.
But it’s only ever had, to the best of our knowledge, a single food...
Consider the Sauce: Viet Kitchen is a sweet space
Viet Kitchen is in the very heart of Vietnamese Footscray, sharing a block of Hopkins Street with such popular places as Sapa Hills and...
Consider the Sauce: Sunshine RSL is a welcome surprise
Pokie venues are not a natural habitat for Consider The Sauce.
In fact, if memory serves, this is only the second such story in CTS...
Consider The Sauce: B&D Kitchen in St Albans
B&D is at that “other end” of Alfrieda Street, not where we usually start our St Albans adventures – but it’s worth the enjoyable...
Miss Biscuit: Kenny Weir explores decorating skills that take the biscuit
Consider The Sauce loves rabbit holes and those who gleefully scamper down them – people who are devoted with joy and passion to their...
Consider the Sauce: Surprises at Ethnic India in Hoppers Crossing
Ethnic India is located on the Golden Mile at Hoppers Crossing, in one of the light industrial-commercial precincts that are offshoots of it.
When Bennie...
Consider the sauce: Pier 71 Bar E Cucina
Bennie and I have an engagement in Altona – the launch party for a new eating place.
In truth, we’re not sure how – or...
Consider The Sauce: Whole new barbecue experience at Phi Phi 2
Phi Phi 2 is a new sister eatery to the local favourite across the road.
Phi Phi 2, with its lighter, tighter lunch menu, serves...
Container cafe: Kenny Weir’s search for the perfect burger goes industrial
Across the new frontiers of the industrial west, there’s a cafe at least every couple of kilometres.
And, these days, all but the most rigorously...
Fig & Walnut: A little gem by the tracks in Seddon
Consider The Sauce has long admired the twin rows of old shops on either side of the tracks near Seddon station, on Bellairs Avenue...
Kenny Weir discovers real “fish and chips” at Caroline Springs
Consider The Sauce loves the new school of flash fish and chip places.
But what do we want from them?
We want a nice, bright, clean...