For meals, we just chose places near the hotel, so we rely on our concierge to recommend restaurants.  Mom wanted French this time….

website:  The French Brasserie 

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When we arrived in Melbourne, I asked the concierge to recommend a casual Italian place and this is where he took us. Very near the hotel across the bridge in Southbank. We asked the waiter to slice the pizza but he refused.  Hmmm…He said they purposely give you a knife so you can cut the portion that you want 🙂

This was our favorite in the restaurant!

Chocolate and Raspberry Calzone         $12.50 

White chocolate and raspberry in a sweet folded pizza, dusted in icing sugar and served with premium Italian Ferrero Rocher gelato  

website:  La Camera 

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Heart2Heart loves foodhalls especially the Japanese foodhalls in the basement of their department stores ( Mitsukoshi Food Hall January 13, 2009) .  In London, Harrods foodhall and in Australia, I made sure to take a peek at the David Jones Food Hall.  And as usual, the place was very different from the others – it was not crowded, it was not noisy, it was a relaxing atmosphere.    I liked the signs posted in the different walls around the food hall.  This is my most favorite one!

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Thanks Tito Ralph Joseph for arranging this wonderful visit at Wyndham Estate!  It was a perfect way to celebrate Dads birthday which I am sure he enjoyed.  We had wine tasting, then a very very delicious lunch.  Everything was good but our most favorite was the dessert especially the pavlova!!!! We thought we were full so we ordered one of each dessert, we ended up ordering maybe 3 or 4 of the pavlova!

Again, we had a very slow and relaxing lunch.  That is one thing I like about Australia.  Everyone seems to enjoy life and cherish every moment of it…instead of always rushing and trying to run after something.  We had finished lunch at maybe 4:30 pm!  So we decided not to do the wine tour anymore because we had to go back to the city before dark.  

Thank you to Wyndham Estate for a warm and kind reception and to Tito Ralph for arranging Dad’s birthday lunch! I wish we stayed longer so we can have more 3 hour lunches!! 🙂 enjoying the food with family

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Breakfast is included with the room, so we had a nice buffet breakfast at The Mill

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