Dinner @ Cafe Vue at Heide

It's a lovely night and we're off for dinner at the latest Café Vue at Heide. Heide is home to the Museum of Questionable Modern Art and one of the features of this outpost is that the cafe will be using produce from Heide's original kitchen garden.

For dinner, the Heide Garden Menu du Jour is available, in either two or three course options.

Lunch @ Caffe e Cucina

We continue our Australia Day feasting with something Italian and a visit to Caffe e Cucina. It's sad to say that we've never been here before - many reasons, either it was too full or no parking or there's somewhere else to go.

The space has a nice feel - that Italian feel, cramped and dark and somewhat cluttered, an eclectic mix of decoration but somehow when you put it all together it feels like home.

For starters:

Breakfast @ Cafe Vue at 401

It's a beautiful Australia Day and while for many it seems the day they, in no particular order, feel the need to bag the flag, bag the queen and generally bag the country, we on the other hand celebrate the fact that we are fortunate enough to live in a country that doesn't punish such spoilt, self-centered and self-absorbed ingrates and allows them the opportunity to show us all that they are truly wankers.

Perhaps as they sip on their single origin soy pour over with their head wistfully tilted up their own arse, they might one day realise the fortunate position they are in to live in this country and be able to afford their organic, bio-dynamic, free-range, grass fed, gm-free, R.S.O.L.E way of life.

With that said, it's time for Breakfast.

Lunch @ Home Dining Room

Back for a revisit and this time we're doing lunch. It's a warm day and I'm feeling in the mood for something different so I begin with a drink that's had me intrigued for a while - the Ginger Ninja.

Breakfast @ Barkers

As I mentioned in my last posting, Barkers is now open for weekend breakfast so we've popped in after an early morning shop at Victoria Gardens.

The menu is concise but there should be something to suit most appetites and tastes.

Lunch @ Rococo Hawthorn

There's always a problem this time of the year finding places that are actually open. After many false starts we finally find success at Rococo.

The last time we wrote about this place we found it in the middle of its conversion from Isa Brown to Rococo. Beside changes to the menu, changes to the decor have also taken place - the back wall now has banquette seating.

For starters: