Eat @ Phillippa's

Phillippa's is a bakery selling bread and other homemade goodies.
Here they are very cozy and heavenly! I could sit in here for hours! They are very reminiscent of Realfoods.
Here I went here with a few of my Indian friends to find that they don't have much vegan food on the menu.
But they did have a great little friand and cookie on the menu. And they also had some great little cheese sticks and olive foccacia. Boy these do melt in your mouth.
Love them and keep up the good work.

Yen Sushi and Noodle.

Yen Sushi and Noodles is a little place located in a laneway in the city. Here they are only a small shop therefore there isn't a whole lot of seating. Most people just do takeaway. But I came just before 12pm and found a seat.
There is some service, but it is pretty fast and not friendly at all. Pretty much the whole time I was there there was only one other couple and the waitress left all the mess on the table.
I had the brown rice sushi ($2.40). Here you can choose from egg, salmon, vegetarian and the list goes on. It fell apart a bit. I don't think I'll order this again.
The $5 pack of rice paper rolls was really nice, just the way that I like it; thin, very freshly made with lots of vegetables and not much noodles.But I didn't mind that they didn't have the peanut sauce. I didn't want sauce anyway.

The mi goreng noodles ($8.50) on the other hand had way too much sweet chilli sauce and not enough soy sauce and wok hei to it. It also had too much noodles to it and not enough vegetables. But the hokkein noodles were cooked to perfection.
I wouldn't recommend the noodles to anyone who can't stand the thought of msg. But would love to recommend the place to anyone who loves rice paper rolls and sushi and suggest that they keep doing that and not the noodles.

Eat @Kenzan

Kenzan is a Japanese cafe that is highly raved and reviewed by bloggers and people on Urbanspoon.com. Although a little bit on the steep side in terms of costs, it is a true Japanese place. It is run by Japanese and not by Chinese.
They have a few restaurants but the one I went to is at GPO. Its a bit further from my workplace.
This place seems to attract a lot of the corporates, but some of the students also visit for lunch. I went there at around 12:45pm and the place was packed.
It was dim, but I love the decor. It was truly Japanese.

I had a vegetarian roll and tempura zaru soba. And I also had a Japanese cold green tea. Altogether it was $23-$24.
The zaru soba was heavenly. But the serving could have been bigger for the hefty price tag of $16. Loved the tempura. It was heavenly, but again small serving.
The sushi roll was lovely too. The rice was the right one. Again a bit hefty though at $4 for eat and $3.80 for take away.
 I'd probably only just come here for the experience not so much the money.
This is like being in an Izakaya den. All the servings are rather small for the price paid.

Le crossaint

Le Crossaint is a French bakery at Victoria Market. It sells sandwiches, pastries, crossaints, cakes and breakfasts for under $10. They have Breakfast specials of $8.50 and $11.95 (with a drink). They also have Vietnamese banh mi for $5.
The service here is non existent. You go up to the counter and you order. And then they will give you a tray with the table number, salt and pepper and your juice and you'll have to balance it yourself and walk out the door and sit outside (there is no indoor seating). And they have small steps so it might be hard to balance the tray.

The vegetarian french breakfast was just ok. And they forgot the French toast. The bottled orange juice wasn't too bad for the price.
The mushrooms had bits of bacon in it. Although I asked for no bacon, I didn't mind just a small bit of bacon. The tomato was a little flavourless. I would have liked a lot more flavour to it. It was not grilled properly.
The eggs were sunny side up , which I didn't mind. But I would have liked it better if it was scrambled. I wasn't asked about the options for the eggs, which I would have liked. The egg was just lukewarm and not hot.
Although you get a good feed for the price, they could have put some sort of butter with the crossaint. And more toast.
I'd probably visit this place only if Big Fil wanted me to.

Later on I went to the American Jam doughnut Kitchen and they sell lovely and divine donuts for $1.Yay! Love them

Eating $6 pizza slices at Pizza bar

Today I visited South Melbourne and was wowed by the pizzas and the $6 pizza special at the pizza bar. The pizzas looked good from the window, but when I ate it, not so.
I loved the ingredients that was fresh, but that's as far as it goes. The pizzas didn't really wow me all that much. I had the hot spicy pizza was really wasn't hot at all and the Hawaiian pizza which was just meh. There was one vegetarian option but it looked sad.
The server was really pleasant, but there was not much to that.
There really isn't an eat in option because this is in a food court. But what they could do is to provide some plates and cutlery for those that want to eat in.