Lara Dunston

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Name: Lara Dunston
Date registered: December 30, 2009
URL: http://cooltravelguide.com

Latest posts

The Best Melbourne Markets — April 27, 2012
How To Make A Mojito — April 7, 2012
Afternoon Tea at The Hotel Windsor, a Melbourne Tradition — March 26, 2012
From Taste of Melbourne to Melbourne Food and Wine Festival — March 17, 2012
Eating Out In Melbourne: from European to Asian and Back Again — March 8, 2012

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Apr
27

The Best Melbourne Markets

by Lara Dunston

Melbourne is blessed with brilliant fresh produce markets and we toured three of the best Melbourne markets, the Queen Victoria Market, South Melbourne Market, and Prahran Market, on our recent trip. Why do a tour of a market? Isn’t it enough just to shop the market and soak up the atmosphere? To take in the …

Categories: Food and Wine, Local Produce, Local Products, Taking a Tour, Walking Tour

Apr
07

How To Make A Mojito

by Lara Dunston

Sensology Art of Cocktail Making classes at the Taste of Melbourne festival. Run by Bacardi in conjunction with Longrain Melbourne.

Cocktail time. A class on how to make a Mojito was one of the highlights of the Taste of Melbourne festival. Out of all the events we went to, the cocktail making lessons were the ones that seemed to excite festivalgoers the most. Long lines, packed sessions, and lots of locals taking their cocktail educations …

Categories: Bars and Entertainment, Food and Wine, Recipes

Mar
26

Afternoon Tea at The Hotel Windsor, a Melbourne Tradition

by Lara Dunston

Afternoon Tea, the Windsor Hotel, Melbourne, Australia.

Afternoon tea at The Hotel Windsor is a quintessential Melbourne experience for many, and for locals as much as tourists. While afternoon tea may currently be in vogue – it was inevitable it would follow on from the cupcake fad – the Hotel Windsor has been serving its traditional afternoon tea continuously since 1883, and …

Categories: Eating Out, Food and Wine, Learning Locally, Local Knowledge

Mar
17

From Taste of Melbourne to Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

by Lara Dunston

Like all good foodie cities, Melbourne in Australia is home to a handful of delicious food festivals, from Taste of Melbourne to Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. It was Taste of Melbourne, held in September, that we used as an excuse to travel here last year and get to know the city’s food scene, and the …

Categories: Eating Out, Festivals and Events, Food and Wine

Mar
08

Eating Out In Melbourne: from European to Asian and Back Again

by Lara Dunston

You can take a culinary trip around the world, eating out in Melbourne – from Europe to Asia and back again – and that’s virtually what we did on our recent foodie trip, eating everything from Italian, French and British to Japanese, Thai and regional Chinese. To Australians, this kind of eating isn’t unusual. Like …

Categories: Eating Out, Food and Wine