weekend eats

 

I can’t believe the weekend’s flown by already! And I spent it just eating and eating, haha – not good, not good at all. It’s already Tuesday and I STILL feel bloated :D

 

On Sunday, for the first time in aaaages I went for actual BREAKFAST! It was kinda almost 12pm, but whatever, I woke up at 10, which is like 3 whole hours earlier than normal, so I think I deserve a pat on the back! Me, Erwin, Suvs and Ee met up with Dahbuu and his new squeeze at Mart 130.

 

Mart 130 is a quaint little place – all bright and airy and squishy (as in, lots of bodies crammed into one space!) as many top notch Melbourne spots are. Do you guys notice that a lot of Melbie’s most popular places are all usually really small and crammed into dodgy lanes? Well Mart 130 is on a TRAM LINE (Mart – Tram spelt backwards, and stop 130, so you could technically tram, there, get off at stop 130 and have brekkie, heh). Needless to say, we didn’t tram lahhh…I puttered around picking everyone up in my underused (but very loved!) car. Digressing – why do people get surprised when they hear that I drove? Is it THAT unfathomable? Pouf.

 

I had the organic scrambled eggs with sourdough and bacon. It was oookayyy – it’s not the best breakfast I’ve ever had, but it was good enough. I guess I was expecting more because of all the hype. Having said that, the atmosphere was great and at least now I can say I’ve had gourmet breakfast on a tram track :P

 

The Corn Fritters, which are supposedly really good, but none of us ordered it, haha! This very gorgeous picture courtesy of Totally Addicted to Taste.

 

Pancakes with Vanilla and Marscapone – looks amazing, but again, we didn’t order this! My stomach wasn’t even awake, so I couldn’t even finish my eggs and bacon – don’t think I could’ve handled this pancake stack. Once again, I’ve used a picture from Totally Addicted to Taste.

 

We were all completely stuffed after that, but because it was so bloody early and we had the rest of the day to kill, me, Suvs and Erwin traipsed down to Brunswick, where we pottered around the mishmash of shops. I bought some amazing custom blended beans from Jasper’s (MUST go there if you’re ever feeling depressed – they have buckets and BUCKETS of different coffee beans all stacked to the ceiling and it smells like you’ve died and gone to coffee heaven!) and we stuck our fingers into everything in Klein’s Apothecary. How could we not? So many interesting perfumes, bath and body stuff and nice-smelling things in big glass jars!

 

Of course, when you have nothing to do, it’s all about food, so we capped off our Brunswick outing with an AMAZING lemon tart at Babka. OMG. The hype says it’s the best lemon tart in Melbourne, and they were so not wrong – it’s the best lemon tart I’ve ever had, period! Ahhhh I’m getting cravings just thinking about it – must go back!

 

On Saturday, me and the Penguin went to Idibidi in Fitzroy for dinner, followed by dessert (Belgian Spoil for two!) at Koko Black. I miss my Belgian Spoil!

 

On Friday, me and Suvs bailed out of clubbing at Se7en to go rampaging around the city for yummy cocktails, wine and tapas (and good company, of course, of course). Melbourne is never short of interesting bars and lounges to hit up, so thus far we’ve been to a different ones every week! Friday’s standout was Hairy Canary – we ordered handmade chorizo, and were recommended some red wine which went really well with it! And when Winnypoo joined us, we ordered molten chocolate cake with pistachio ice cream, and I got an extra glass of riesling to go with – YUM! (I know realize that I can never start a food blog because I’ve already run out of adjectives to describe good food, haha)

 

Oookay! Whew! That' was kinda long. Am going to run off for dinner now (more food! I kinda feel full just from blogging about  my weekend, dunno how I’m going to eat!)