Petaling st

Petaling st is a Malaysian hawker style restaurant. Here they are famous for their Malaysian style food. I had their fried kuey teow which is a popular style of noodles in this joint and Malaysia. I wanted to have their roti, but they didn't have. They just opened at 11am when I arrived, so no chef and no roti. :(
But at least the waitress told me and was honest.
Service was quick and I was out in half an hour.
But the fried kuey teow ($9.50 per plate) had a nice wok hei to it and was fresh.
Big Fil and I should come here again for lunch one day.
Sorry there are no pictures. I have lost the USB. But will one day put some up there.

Coffee at Crumbs Organic Bakehouse

yes I know it sound like I went there again. But I didn't go to the same place twice. Instead I went to their sister store in North Melbourne which has been open for a week.
Same foods as the original, but the store is smaller in size and there are no toilets. The toilets are in the town hall. Everything here is vegan and healthy/
I had the same as the last visit, but instead of cake I had a doughnut. It came out to $10.50.

Umberto Espresso Bar

I went to Umberto on the way to RMIT bundoora. This little gem in Thornbury is run by the Italians who knows and love coffee.They're featured in quite a few cheap eats guides ( including The Age 2011) which is how I discovered them.  This is the first time I discovered Grappa an Italian drink. They specialise in coffees and espressos and they have not much food on the menu.
The setting is quite nice and homely. There is a courtyard, but seeing as it was cold I didn't feel like going there.

Here they use Genovese coffee. I had a long black which was flowery and a little bit bitter.But it was strong and invigorating.
They do breakfasts  and I had a simple breakfast of avocado and tomato on toast with a little bit of lemon on the side. It was lovely.
I have to agree with The Age about the mind blowing desserts. They also do really lovely mind blowing desserts. Here I had a lovely gourmet panna cotta for $10. Here they were like the ones from My Kitchen Rules where it was mind blowing as they would say. yum its like heaven.
The almond bread was nice too.
Come here for the coffees not the food. I recommend that all Bundoora students visit here on one of their two hour breaks.

$1.50 pizza at Swanston walk

Its filling. Yummy cheap and affordable.
It is an old cafe nearby RMIT Business. And its also nearby Building 113. I just discovered this a few years ago but haven't really gone and tried it due to the fact that I just did not have the time.
The pizzas are $1.50 per slice, but you can only take it away. They only have four choices (one vegetarian pizza) and a hawaiian pizza. I went for these and they were filling.

Naked Espresso Bar.

This little gem is hidden away in Lt Bourke st, where Hardware lane is. They are a speciality coffee place where Market lane and AXIL coffee beans are used. It was a buzz with people this morning, whilst outside was cold and dreary. All their meals are American which is nice. They do have sandwiches and bagels on offer.

They sell bags of coffee beans and expresso machine accessories. They also sell the syphon, aeropress, pour over devices.  When I went in they were having a clearance sale.
Here the staff was very friendly and they let me take photos of the Aeropress method when they were making my coffee ($5.00).It was a little grainy, but my guess is that it is how Aeropress coffee should be as they do use some sort of device that looks like a syringe. A lot of work was taken into preparing this and it shows. The atmosphere was very homely.
Their meals are cheap and filling. All the meals here are under $10. I had a very filling baked eggs with tabasco (US Pepper sauce). It was yummy, but it had a bit too much cheese and not a lot of bread.
I also had a lovely passionfruit macaroon ($2.80). These are from Lux Bite. It looked really cute and this is what had drawn me to order this macaroon.