By Contributing Columnist Donavan Hall In one of my (yet to be published) novels I created a Belgian-style restaurant and brewpub in the Long Island town of Port Jefferson.  This little beer ... if I was pouring for myself, but I have yet to find a Belgian-style restaurant whose wait-staff ... at Waterzooi was so excellent that we hadn't even left the restaurant yet when we started talking about...

Being that my trip to the States is coming to a rapid close, I decided that there was no better way to spend a beautiful fall evening than visiting one of a handful of Spanish Tapas Restaurants in the Northern suburb of Evanston, Illinois. Squeezed amongst the plethora of high ...

restaurant doesn’t want birds near their tables. I’m resisting the obvious jokes. 5. Smells If you can ... or the cooking oil or the restaurant is on fire. 6. Carpet I’m particularly thinking about loud ... physically. If your hands are sticky after touching a menu then the restaurant very probably doesn’t care ... Over 20 items split across entrée, main and dessert is pushing it. If a restaurant is trying...

Twisted Oak makes wine samples available to those who are passionate about wine, and who enjoy telling others about that passion. So, if you put charcoal to cave wall, stylus to clay, pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, or sound...

Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, near The George Cinema if you really want to visit.

Faxed to Crikey! by a restaurateur. Apparently, the message which was printed on a small card that was slipped in with a recent bill payment. Restaurant reviewers for the Melbourne Age's Epicure food section appear to be banned from...

Can anybody tell me if there is any bloody restaurant around Melbourne that isn't playing James Blunt as background music? Candle in the wind or even Chris de Burgh would make a welcome change...

Do you ever get the sense that some restaurants are taking the piss? You know what happens, they begin serving quality cheap food, have friendly efficient service and a reasonaby priced wine list. Actually, coming to think of it...

Today's special is garnish, PR garnish that is. Apparently, the St Kilda Wagamama isn't closing but relocating to the Melbourne CBD even thought the space is closed and up for rent. The noodle bar was never very busy perhaps...

A new restaurant needs to be put in context. For Lau’s Family Kitchen (4 Acland St, St Kilda 3182 ... ’s finest Chinese restaurant. He’s sold out of Melbourne’s Flower Drum. This year it slipped (sans ... ’t some flash opening party, simply the first night of a new restaurant which until late this afternoon ... as starting any new restaurant often is. No stars that I know of attended. But I recognised plenty of local...