Auction Rooms Cafe
I just passed the middle of this trip to Melbourne, and while it was wonderful being with Zhen the past few days, it was good that I had today to myself. One of the things I enjoy about travelling is often walking through the city centre on my own. I did that in Auckland, in Taiwan (hmm. did i?) and also last time in Christchurch. Walking through the city centre, people-watching, food-smelling, sound-hearing, gives your senses a barrage of information about the pulse of the city. For example, smelling coffee and hearing quick footsteps tells you of its busy-ness, smelling Laksa, chinese dumplings and fresh baked foccacia bread tells you this is a country with many migrants. Beautiful.
And so after a nap and some facebooking, I headed down to this cafe near my hostel I had chanced upon in a book called Melbourne Coffee Review. I was delighted! It was a beautiful quaint cafe in the middle of nowhere, and apparently they roast their beans on the premises! :)
My delicious braised beef cheek with black olives, a tomato-based puree and mashed potato. Mmmm.
Ooh. Can you see the jelly-gooey parts of the beef? *slurps*
At this point in the meal, Zhen popped by to visit me just for 5 minutes on her way to another meeting. It was really strange, because even though my braised beef cheeks wonderful when I was alone, it suddenly tasted a whole lot better when she came. I remember a JC teacher talking to us about why Chinese always eat their meals with friends or relatives.. and how a meal is a collective activity.
I've always believed this:
Good food = good food.
Good food + great friendships = AWESOMELY FANTABULOUS TIME.
I love it.
Look at my post-dinner cappucino!
Remnants of my dessert. I ate it all up before I could take a picture of it. By the way, it was absolutely delicious 'Chocolate Banana Spring Rolls with sour cream.' The chocolate in there wasn't chocolate sauce. It was half-melted chocolate lumps. OMG.
I really love this place, check out the interiors.
I absolutely love this place, except I won't be in Melbourne much longer. Stay noted of a new post on Jamie Oliver's restaurant Fifteen Melbourne!
Weeeee.
Auction Rooms Cafe
103 - 107 Errol Street
North Melbourne
And so after a nap and some facebooking, I headed down to this cafe near my hostel I had chanced upon in a book called Melbourne Coffee Review. I was delighted! It was a beautiful quaint cafe in the middle of nowhere, and apparently they roast their beans on the premises! :)
My delicious braised beef cheek with black olives, a tomato-based puree and mashed potato. Mmmm.
Ooh. Can you see the jelly-gooey parts of the beef? *slurps*
At this point in the meal, Zhen popped by to visit me just for 5 minutes on her way to another meeting. It was really strange, because even though my braised beef cheeks wonderful when I was alone, it suddenly tasted a whole lot better when she came. I remember a JC teacher talking to us about why Chinese always eat their meals with friends or relatives.. and how a meal is a collective activity.
I've always believed this:
Good food = good food.
Good food + great friendships = AWESOMELY FANTABULOUS TIME.
I love it.
Look at my post-dinner cappucino!
Remnants of my dessert. I ate it all up before I could take a picture of it. By the way, it was absolutely delicious 'Chocolate Banana Spring Rolls with sour cream.' The chocolate in there wasn't chocolate sauce. It was half-melted chocolate lumps. OMG.
I really love this place, check out the interiors.
I absolutely love this place, except I won't be in Melbourne much longer. Stay noted of a new post on Jamie Oliver's restaurant Fifteen Melbourne!
Weeeee.
Auction Rooms Cafe103 - 107 Errol Street
North Melbourne
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