We enjoyed dinner tonight at Kibbi’s Cafe on King William Road in Hyde Park. The restaurant serves a mix of cooking styles from Mediterranean, pizza, seafood, tapas, steaks and kebabs. We had the mezze plate for entree followed by kangaroo fillet and kibbi for mains. It was a good-value $59 Living Social deal.
Ethiopian restaurant
I tend to associate Ethiopia with famine, but the country has excellent cuisine, based on my experience tonight of an Abyssinian restaurant on Henley Beach Road. The food was spicy without being hot. It’s eaten by hand with soft pancake-textured bread.
Google Chrome and broccoli
A million people across the world are probably writing about Google Chrome right now, so I decided not to. While out for a walk tonight I resolved to write about the first thing which came into my head, and quite randomly that happened to be broccoli. This reminded me of a Year 11 Biblical Studies [...]
Think twice about complaining
I’ll think twice before I ever complain about slow service in a restaurant after reading this report in The Age: “A restaurateur has been jailed for seven years for the manslaughter of a patron who complained about slow service. After a fight broke out at the Bon Mua restaurant and karaoke bar, co-owner and chef [...]
Melbourne
I managed to spend some time in Melbourne during my flying visit to Victoria. Melbourne is a great city and its public areas have improved immensely since I was a child 30 years ago. Docklands is now an attractive cosmopolitan residential and dining precinct where there was once shipping. I walked from my hotel in [...]
