La Petite Creperie.

Bonjour mon ami,

If you're still out there, I'm back again with more food.

Uni has started recently so it's a bit difficult for me to find time and write a blog but i'll sure try.

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Today I ended up eating a lot of french food, which I absolutely love.

I met up with my two friends for lunch and we ended up at a delightful little creperie in Hardware lane.

I really liked this place, it was really relaxing to eat outside. Unfortunately they ran out of their bread so I couldn't order their Le Croque Monsieur so we ended up ordering a crepe called La Broceliandre. It was French Bechamel, Gruyere cheese and mushrooms with a choice of either prosciutto, ham and turkey in a buckwheat crepe. I chose the turkey.

A lovely golden brown crepe finished off with a lovely cup of French Earl Grey Tea.

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Right next door was a macaron place, called La Belle Miete. 

We noticed that there was a really long line coming out of the shop so I thought it might be worth a try.....

We bought 6 macarons, I tried 2, which were flavoured Passionfruit and Milk Chocolate and Pistachio. I absolutely loved the passionfruit flavour, it has a beautiful affinity with chocolate. The other flavours were Pink Grapefruit, Moet and Chandon, Caramel and Pomegranate. 

The macarons were exceptionally well made, they had a good size and  delicate biscuit and a good ratio of biscuit to filling. These are all the qualities I look for in a good macaron.

Even if you're not into sweets, the place has a really cute decor which is worth paying a visit to have a peek inside. 

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That's all for now, I'm having a taco night with some friends so maybe pictures of that will be in my next blog.

Au revoir~ 

Brunch date with Mum at Cafe Vue

Evening, readers!

I'm back with another tasty blog about my eating experiences.

As a late mother's day celebration, I took my mum out for a nice brunch at Cafe Vue 401 on St Kilda rd.

It was a quaint cafe with a cool interior and rather friendly staff.

We started out with tea and coffee. Cafe Vue have their own coffee called, 5 senses that is, according to my mum quite good. 

My mum and I had their Wagyu beef burger and house chips. Such an excellent burger, there's not that many ingredients in there but it's a simple burger with A LOT of flavour. 

My sister and her boyfriend both had this Wagyu beef pie. I had a taste and it was great! So delicious and hearty and I just love how they plated the mash as well.

We loved the food so much we decided to go for Round 2!

We ordered their "Melbourne Club Sandwich" It was a BLT, A chicken and watercress and a ham sandwich. My favourite was the ham sandwich, it was not your typical school lunch ham it looked gorgeous and the flavour was intense.

Finally, just before you thought we couldn't eat anymore food we had dessert. It was just a macaron each for me and my mum, whilst my sister had a Trio of Chocolate cake.

Unfortunately I have officially made my stance on Macarons....I really don't like them anymore. They're just toooooo sweet for me. However Cafe Vue do make excellent macarons though, they were probably one of the best I've ever had so if you're a macaron lover give these a try.

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So I've had a pretty big marathon day of eating today i'll just leave you with a couple more pictures of the food I've tucked into lately.

A friend of mine in my last Japanese class made some fairy bread to celebrate. It was so nostalgic, I haven't had fairy bread since I was in primary school!

A Wagyu beef hot dog from the Snag Stand at Melbourne Central. (just realised I've had a lot of Wagyu lately. haha)

Finally some spanish donuts from Mocha Jo's in Glen Waverley. I prefer my spanish donuts nice and crispy but these were okay. It's such a shame that strawberries aren't in season though.

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That's all! See you next blog. :)

Noir & Real Macarons.

Oh Hi! I'm just writing a blog whilst my hair is bleaching....Goodbye Regrowth!

Also I'm very glad to say that today's blog is a positive blog about my dining experiences, it literally makes up for the crappy experiences I wrote about in my previous blog. 

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So on friday night, I took my boyfriend to a lovely restaurant called 'Noir' in Richmond. It's a great place that does French, Mediterranean and modern Australian cuisine. It's very melbourne-esque, has value for money and great service. 

It's quite a simplistic but stylish restaurant, perfect mood lighting for a date. My only complaint is that the walls of the restaurant don't absorb sound very well and the sound just bounces right off, so it's a bit noisy when the place is full. We unfortunately had a group of people in the restaurant with a woman who liked to scream (probably had a bit too much to drink)

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Now on to the food! Sadly, it was so dark in the restaurant I couldn't take my own photos but I grabbed some off their website. We decided to have their Surprise Tasting Menu, it's 8 courses and is $70 per person. I LOVED it, and it's quite a reasonable price considering the quality and quantity of food we had.

Of course we started of the meal with some bread.....

Our entree was premium pacific oysters with a champagne granita and a spicy crab croquette. The oysters were refreshing! The granita was very sweet but complimented the oysters nicely. We also had this salmon dish...From memory it had a dill sauce and some caviar on it too.....

Another entree was Crisp Bread, Waldorf Salad and Eye Fillet of Beef. Delicious! the way they did the Waldorf salad is so interesting!

We also had a crisp pork belly dish with peas.

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Sadly there are no pictures of the main we had which was a White Rabbit Pie with winter vegetables, thyme and a black peppercorn sauce. I loved it, the little rabbit ribs were so cute and tasty and I loved winter vegetables, especially the parsnip.

Desserrtt just BLLEWWW my mind. It was EXACTLY what I wanted in a dessert, It was a Chocolate Fondant with a serve of ice cream and some cherries. The cherries had a LOT of liqueur  in them so I only ate one but everything else was divine, I would've licked the plate clean.

I strongly recommend this place! Do try if you're a real foodie, it's quite an older crowd there (we were the youngest ones in the restaurant by a huge margin) but if you love food, it won't even matter.

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Remember my crappy macaron experience? Well this made up for it!

According to the maker of the best macarons in melbourne, A little place which is kind of close to my workplace makes the closest thing to perfect macarons in Melbourne. It's called La Tropezienne.

This tube of 6 cost me $12 which when you think about it is quite good value! The macarons at the previous place was almost $3 for just one and they were CRAP.

These however were delightful! Perfect biscuit to filling ratio and not even in the slightest bit chewy. They were delicate and light just like a real macaron should be. The flavours were nice and sweet, maybe a bit TOO sweet for me....but I'm a dark chocolate kind of girl but if you have a sweet tooth, these macarons are for you! 

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Anyway I'm off to bed!

I have a girl date with my friend Karen tomorrow! I'm so excited!