La Romana

RNIS bought a Groupon for this and it was $10 for one wine, pizza slice and a entree. You can choose between a salad or aranchini. I chose the rice balls.

Like Lievita which Sweet and Sour fork went to (and I have not been) you can choose the pizza by the slice or by kilogram ($27-$29). If I chose by kilogram I would have to share the pizza with a group of four or more.

I had a red wine which was quite strong. It worked well with my pizza, but my cup was just a tad bit dirty.

They make the pizza every day and they keep on going in that huge kitchen of theirs. They have a pizza oven so every time someone comes and orders one they put the slice in there to warm it up. the arachini balls had a fice filling of cheese and rice and they change the selection every day. Same as the salds.

This place is run by the Italians and an actual Italian chef works there.

The pizza was good with a lot of cheese but it was a bit lukewarm. It was doughy but not too doughy. It was a cheese and tomato pizza with basil and not a lot of sauce.

Rating: 13/20- just ok. But at least the service is good. This place would be great for all the law professionals to unwind after a hard day in the courts as they are open until 8pm.

Salona

Salona is a Greek restaurant in Swan st right around the corner from Richmond station. Here they had a $16 Groupon for one with a souvlaki (of your choice), chips and beer. The beer is an original Greek lager beer.

At lunchtimes they are quiet but during the dinner time they are busy. Hence that is why the Groupon is only valid for lunch and not dinner. I made a booking a few weeks ago and somewhat had to cancel but they didn't mind me walking in on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

The Greek lager beer was really strong and worked well with the souvlaki. I have never tried Greek beer before so can't comment too much on its taste. It did smell appley and they pour it into a really tall glass.

Here I tried their vegan souvlaki and it did not disappoint. It had loads of vegetables and lots of hummus. The pita was lukewarm though. The pita was the soft homemade bread. They make their own chips from real potato which is great to see. But it must have taken a while as my food did take a while to come.

The other two people came in for just coffees and sweets. I still can't have sweets due to the Sugar free month (but that will end soon and I can but just in moderation).

Rating: 15/20- me likes and I'm sure some other vegetarian bloggers will like it too.

Festival of Nations

The Festival of Nations is an event that is on every year at melbourne Uni for International students and local students alike. Here many different cultures are showcased.

In previous years they had a lot of food stalls and it was at night. This year they culled it back by about half of them and more games. They also decided to do it during the daytime rather than the nighttime. Hence not as many people came as I saw in previous years pictures.

This year there was free Brunetti cakes for those that buy two or more things from their stalls and are Unimelb students. Since I cannot have sweets due to Sugar free month, I did not try. But Brunettis are amazing.

Here I had the char kuey teow from the Cantonese Students society. It was $6.50 but the rice noodles were not cooked properly and the beef was pretty bad. The noodles were rubbery and was hard to eat. They had one girl get the money but I did not know until I started to order. Perhaps they need to put a sign or the girl that collects the money needs to have a sign attached to her like the pacers do.

But the jian bing bought from the Hong Kong students society fared much better albeit messy. This was $6.50 but it filled me up. Here they had a sausage in this and this was cooked really well.

There was the dragon dance and I could hear the drums as I was going into Union house. This was exciting to watch.

Do come by to next years one. To the organisers please organise it for at night and have alcohol at the next one. At the next one there can be some different beers being sampled.

The Farm Cafe

The Farm Café is in Abbotsford along the Yarra Bend Trail. So many times I have tried to find this place using public transport to the Convent and could not. Now I finally figured it was on the Yarra Bend trail itself. And it also goes past the Collingwood Childrens Farm.

Here they use organic produce which is sourced locally hence everything is expensive. And seeing as they are an outdoor café with shelter, dogs are welcome. And I patted a few whilst there.

Latte

I love the old style mug

My brunch

The view of the farm from the cafe

The plants

On Saturdays and Sundays they are quite busy with breakfast so you might have to wait a while for a table. But they do takeaway food and coffee for those that don't want to wait.

I had the basic eggs on toast with tomato relish ($10). I have to say that the relish was so good. It was not sweet which is great and I loved the parsley on top. But the toast was really hard to cut. I had to use my hands. And also the eggs were lukewarm from having waited on the pass for a while.

But I'll admit that my $3.50 latte was good though. They source all their beans from STREAT and the milk is from Schultz.

Do come on by whilst you are on your walk around the Yarra River.

Yelp presents: Hobba and the Twilight Market

RNIS was invited by Yelp on Facebook and did not have to pay.

Hobba is a great café in Prahran and it is praised by many foodies on Instagram. They have a lot of instagrammable pictures of their food and their produce is from the Farmers market.

Yelp had these sweet popcorn which I enjoyed. I wished that they had them for the movie event last time along with the hotdogs for those that are vegetarian.

Beer

Pottery spinning demonstration

Here their cheeseburger sliders were good and they work with the beer. I had the summer ale and this works better with a BBQ. I think the other beer works better with the sliders and the chips. Btw the chips were amazing with their burger sauce.

Hobba also hosted a small artists market which was just great. Pity though that everything was cash only.

The photobooth was super fun.

Many thanks to Hobba and Yelp for this super fun night and do make sure to check out Yelp.