You may not have topped two gents named Sollozzo and McClusky using a revolver taped to the back of a toilet, but lucky for you there’s no need to find such excuses for a trip to Sicily these days. Not now that we have Journal Canteen.
For five weeks now, Rosa Mitchell has been cooking great Sicilian meals for guests every weekday – using the recipes remembered from her childhood.
This shop might be small and the selection limited, but what is being done here (with two and a bit tables) is being done well. Millsbucks has a seriously small menu, but at least the detail necessary to make something that appears simple is actually being watched over.
In Caledonian Lane, just a skinny-panted shuffle from Jeromes, Millbucks has light and filling Japanese based dishes for a nominal cost.
At some time or another we’ve all had that crazy notion that it’s much cheaper to make your own lunch. It’s not. By the time you buy everything for your sandwich, make it, transport it, you’ve lost about 5 years of your life, you’re down $20 and your bag smells.
What we’re trying to tell you here is that you should leave it to the experts.
If they hadn’t already appointed the King of Moomba for this year, here’s a man who would be well in the running: Herbie, of Herbie’s Healthy Lunches has recently burst onto Melbourne’s scene, delivering ridiculously cheap and healthy lunches to people around town on a silver tray.
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