World food: Berlin.

In June of 2009 my boyfriend Jai and I decided to visit Berlin in Germany.

We ended up going for a week and it was well worth it. I've never done so much walking in my entire life as we just walked all over the city seeing various sites and we ended up going on a number of different walking tours which were also well worth the money.

The food overall was quite nice. I am sure if we had have searched around more we could have found some really amazing places to eat at but alot of the time we just stopped at the first food place that had an english menu.

I thought the food would be very rich, heart and big and I guess it kind of was in a way. I would have liked to have tried some more traditonal dishes but I went with one goal and that was to eat a potato kartoffelpuffer in Germany, and Jai's was to find a plate sized giant schnitzel. While I happily ate my kartoffelpuffer, Jai did FIND a giant schnitzel but it was unfortunate we both got colds and never ended up going back to the restaurant to try the schnitzel.

Food Review: Time Out.

Time Out Cafe.
Corner Swanston St and Flinders St,
Federation Square.
Book on: +61 3 9671 3855
Phone: +61 3 9671 3866
http://www.timeoutmelbourne.com.au/home.php

Time Out will always be mine and Jai's restaurant in Melbourne. It's a place we've enjoyed going back to again and again, simply because the food is simple yet tasty, and we have fond memories of our very first dinner out together.

I still remember everything about that night. I ordered a pizza and was mortified to see it was covered in lots of chopped up fresh herbs and Jai ordered the chicken parmagiana.
Anyway, so we went back there quite a few times after that night over the next couple years and reminisced about our first night out there and looked back on how far we had come since then!

The photos from this post was the last time we went back which was for our two year anniversary!
Jai ordered a pizza with leg ham, bacon, cheese and pineapple. And I ordered one with olives, tomato, cheese, ham, mushrooms, garlic and oregano.
We got a couple drinks, one of which was my Super Lucky Lady cocktail which is definitely in the top three cocktails i've ever tasted. It was tangy but so refreshing at the same time.
On the menu it is described as "All things tropical in a fortunate combination of 42 Below passionfruit vodka, passionfruit pulp & lime, alongside pineapple juice."

The waiters and waitresses have always been really pleasant to us there and we always got our food relatively quickly, although time does fly when you're having fun so I didn't actually keep track of how long it took!

Food Review: L' Anima.

Wood Fired Pizzeria Ristorante
548 Mitcham Road,
Mitcham 3132,
Victoria, Australia
Tel: (03) 9873 0099
http://lanima.com.au/

Last year my lovely mum Alison & I were desperate to try out the wood fired pizzas just down the road from our house at a new take away restaurant that opened up called L' Anima.
There were not loads of great quality pizza restaurants near us so we thought it would be great to try out, espeically as we knew who opened the shop.

I ordered the large Hawaiana with tomato, mozzarella cheese, ham and pineapple which was AU $15 and my mum ordered a large pizza with cherry tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, prawns & spinach. I think they may have taken the last one off the menu though as I can't see it on their current menu.

The pizzas were very rustic and I love how they wern't in a perfect circle shape. The flavours were really lovely & it was so worth spending the little bit of extra money to eat such a great tasting pizza.

The owner of the restaurant is also really friendly, helpful and very passionate about the food he creates!

Food Review: Balsamic Lounge.

Balsamic Lounge.
Shop E1, L3, Eastland Shopping Centre,
Maroondah Hwy, Ringwood,
Vic 3134, Australia
Tel: +61 3 9870 4888
www.balsamic.com.au/

I have been out to Balsamic 3 or 4 times. The very first time I went I didn't have a good experience as my sister, sister in- law & I all ordered some form of noodles and they just wern't any decent at all.
I went again with my lovely mother, then my boyfriend & then the photos from this post are from when I went with my friend Stacey.

After realising the noodles wern't any good at all, I stuck with pizza the next 3 times I went and had no problems!
Although the pizza is quite plain they are still quite tasty & a decent sized portion.