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  • Birdie Num Nums: Carlton North, Melbourne

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    I’m a big believer that it’s worth taking the trouble to travel across town to get my hand on some good food and coffee, but isn’t it nice when you can roll out of bed and take a short stroll somewhere decent? That’s one of the great things about Melbourne, good great food and coffee […]

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  • Café BÜ: Carlton North, Melbourne

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    In Melbourne, you don’t have to go far to get good coffee. This is one of the reasons why I moved to beautiful Carlton North, which boasts a number of cool little coffee shops serving up the good kind. Thankfully one of my favourites, Café BÜ, is just a few doors up from me in […]

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  • Top Paddock: Richmond, Melbourne

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    I’ve spent the whole of 2014 searching for local bars and eateries yet to be discovered by tourists and bloggers and have had my fair share of luck during my travels through Asia. It may seem strange then, that since touching down in Melbourne I’ve become addicted to UrbanSpoon and have acquired a ‘wish list’ so large […]

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  • Naughty Boy: Carlton North, Melbourne

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    Naughty Boy Cafe is one of those rare places where the quality of service and food is as good as that experience at a good evening meal, but is a place welcoming enough for me to relax here the whole day and catch up on a spot of blogging. It’s a bloggers paradise; free wifi; staff who […]