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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...

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A Shaw thing

Wyndham councillor Mia Shaw will once again don the mayoral robes after holding off a challenge from Cr Peter Maynard. Seven of the eleven...