14/04/2018 - St Ali Coffee Roasters

Location: 12-18 Yarra Pl, South Melbourne VIC 3205

I have been wanting to bring my partner to this place for the longest time and we finally managed to come to this place. It was raining on the day but the place was crazy crowded. 

old school warehouse converted to cafe!

high ceilings!

We waiting about 15-20 minutes before we were served, so th wait wasn't that bad. We ordered the following below: 

a) Smoked Salmon
b) Koo Koo Ca Choo (The truffle was amazing!)
c) Our usual 2 coffees which were pretty awesome!


 

salmon with eggs! ahhhhhhh a wonderful start to the day!

The truffle was awesome!

Coffee was great as usual!

Damage: Average about 52 AUD. Its a pretty expensive place to have brunch but the food was awesome. We will definitely go back again! I miss the cold coffee brew in a beer bottle! It would be great to have that during hot weather!  

09/04/2018 - Vamos Melbourne

Location: 1st Floor / 37 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

It has been a while since the last update so here we are at the tapas restaurant for our 1 year anniversary celebration. The place is located on the 1st floor where you would need to take a lift upstairs. When I entered, it was pretty dark and the music was really quite loud. However, the place is quite cosy for a good dinner and it wasn't that crowded at all.

Entrance to the restuarant

The decor of lights behind my seat

The small table setup full of cutlery and glorious food and drinks!

We ordered 6 dishes in total. The food portions were not that big though. We wanted to go for the 35 AUD special where you can choose 1 from each food group(TO START, SOMETHING BIGGER, ON THE SIDE) but it turned out that the dimmi 50% off was a bit more worth while, so we just ordered it separately.

a) Chicken Skewers
b) Tostada (Baby octopus, lettuce, pico de gallo, aioli (gf)
c) Escabeche mussels, escabeche sauce, toast
d) Salmon, red pepper, amaranth, tamarindo
e) Brisket, tomato, spring onion, chimichurri 
f) Polenta chips, tapatio, aioli
g) Argentina Beer (Quilmere)
h) Tequila (El Jimador Anejo)

The chicken skewers were really good! Nice tender and to die for!

Looks pretty! But just okay .... 

The mussels were good but the sauce was wayyy tooo sourrrrrrrrr!

This salmon goes with the sauce but its quite salty!

Beef brisket is soft and tender!

Looks like a chorizo. I prefer it to be a bit more salty.

The imported beer - its always nice to have a good beer to go with food!

The tequila that tastes like medicine to me!

Damage: Average about 58 AUD after the 50% dimmi discount!. The price is quite reasonable considering the fact we had drinks and 6 portions worth of food. The normal price would have been more than 100 AUD! If not for the discount, I would not have stepped into this place.

Get the 50% off food here (Mon to Wed): https://www.dimmi.com.au/restaurant/vamos