Thursday, July 21, 2011

Holiday sweets :D

More new and yummy discoveries were made during this winter break! Kinfolk (673 Collins St, Melbourne) - directly opposite Southern Cross station) is a small but buzzing social enterprise-cafe located at the heritage Donkeywheel building. At the end of a meal, one can choose to donate to one of four community projects e.g. education for indigenous communities by dropping a coffee bean into the preferred jar :)

Cute, Brunswick St-ish with a hodge podge furniture collection. Diners share table-space often, creating a warm, cosy atmosphere.

The old, English pub and perhaps boys club like Belgian Beer Cafe Bluestone (557 St Kilda Road, MEL)... where a collection of alcohol drinks and delicious mussel pots await!

All that sweet buzz about Burch & Purchese (647 Chapel St, South Yarra), thanks to one of its chefs appearing on Masterchef 3 meant that we too, had to check out its amazing desserts/petit cake creations!

The strangely princessy pink logo :)

Coconut/ginger/passionfruit/mint creation - my favourite bit was the salted oat and ginger crumble at the bottom :D

To complete my *sugar-ed out* experience, the much talked about Asian inspired macarons from LuxBite (38 Toorak Rd, South Yarra) were next on my list :P

Opened by two Malaysians (chef and lady boss) at the French cafe end of Toorak Rd cnr Punt Rd, LuxBite serves up a bit of everything - brunch, macarons and dessert/petit cakes (very similar to B&P actually!). I came home with (from top to bottom of photo): creme caramel, watermelon, kaya toast, kaffir lime and mandarin/saffron macarons... hopefully they will take my suggestion to heart and experiment with some durian flavoured macarons one day!!

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