touche hombre, melbourne.

I am a huge fan on Mexican food so when I walked past this place on my recent trip to Melbourne I knew I had to pay them a visit before I left.

The moment we sat down we were given a bottle of water, in an old tequila bottle (pictured below). I love using old bottles etc. and repurposing them so when I saw this I loved it!

We then proceeded to pour over the menu, which was completely in mexican/Spanish... so that made ordering a bit...interesting, but luckily we knew figured it out pretty quickly what was what. When we made our order we quickly found out what we thought was an uber cheap meal was going to be a little more expensive as the $6.50 we saw for the taco was per taco.. (yeah, I'm used to my Sydney mexican place which serves a few tacos for a cheap price...) so we were told to grab an entree to share. With that we went back to looking at the menu, not knowing what any of the entrees were and decided to grab the Totopos because the description sounded similar to nachos..

When the food came out we were grateful to the waitress who told us to order more. The highlight of the evening would have to have been the Totopos, which in my mind would've went down with one each because they were THAT good.

Find them:
233 Lonsdale St, Melbourne, VIC

Entrees: Totopos, $12

Mains: De Carnitas (left) & Del Coronel (right), $6.50 each

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homemade hot chips.

One of my favourite snacks, especially during winter, is hot chips. For those who've been around me during lunch hour would know my first choice 90% of the time is hot chips. Although this is well and good while I'm out and about, when I'm at home I prefer to make my own food from scratch. So, here is my recipe for homemade chips.

This recipe makes approximately two servings.

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 large cream delight potatoes
• Salt
• Pepper
• Paprika
• Extra virgin oil

METHOD:

1. Preheat oven to 180˚C fan forced.
2. Cut up the potatoes into the size and shape you desire, I usually cut them quite thin so they cook faster.
3. Drizzle with oil and add a pinch of salt and a generous amount of pepper and paprika - rub in the seasoning.
4. Bake for 30 mins, or until chips go golden brown.
5. VOILA! Hot chips is made! Enjoy as a side or as a snack :)

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cookie, melbourne.

When I went down to Melbourne with my best friend two years ago, her cousin told us that we HAD to visit Cookie - a cocktail bar. Being a lover for a good cocktail we went down there not knowing what to expect, and was pleasantly surprised.

The cocktails are among the best I've ever tasted, it is the Melbourne equivalent of my watering hole Kuleto's in Newtown (read my review here). The only downside to Cookie is the price is quite high, and they don't have the happy hour deal I'm use to at Kuleto's - and to be honest, the Toblerone at Kuleto's is much nicer. It was also sad to see that a lot of the drinks that were in the menu 2 years ago have now disappeared - my much raved about thickness of their menu was scoffed at by my boyfriend when I saw that the menu had shrunk.

Regardless, I do love the extravagant nature of their drinks and a good cocktail bar is hard to find.

For those who are daring enough they serve this drink (first picture below) called the Dry-Hopped Chocolate Zombie which will only be served once per customer, per evening. It is a lethal mix of absinthe, grenadine, chocolate liqueur - just to name a few of the ingredients. My boyfriend and I shared this and after a few sips each I was tipsy. I wasn't a huge fan of the taste as you could taste the absinthe quite heavily, but definitely worth a sip or two to share!

Find them:
Level 1, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC

Dry-Hopped Chocolate Zombie, $30

Strawberry Daiquiri, $20

T-Lam-Chi, $19

Toblerone, $20

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