Miss Marple’s Tea Room – Melbourne Snapshots

by | Jun 14, 2014 | Life

When James’ parents visited us recently we all took a drive up to the Dandenong ranges to visit Miss Marple’s tea house. It was adorable!

As you can guess, Miss Marples’ is themed on the books/movies/tv series.
It’s a typically styled English cottage and serves typical English styled food. I was worried about going because it’s always so busy and they don’t take bookings. We’ve actually tried to visit the last few times we went to the Dandenongs but the wait has been crazy. This time we got a table straight away which was lucky and we even managed to score a booth!
The staff were so lovely and friendly, they really made the day fun as they joked around with us.
The settings were definitely correct for the time period!
The tea I went with was the house special and apparently had won many awards. I enjoyed it but I prefer my tea to be super strong so I wouldn’t say it was the best I’ve ever had.
I ordered the Pimlico pastie. The serving sizes were HUGE. It was yummy and I like how handmade it looked.
Pasties are one of my all time favourite foods and this was was really yummy but also a little more subtle than I’m used to.
James ordered the scones which are apparently quite controversial because they look like this:
Traditional or not they were very yummy.
I tried bread and butter pudding for the first time because I wanted to be extra “English” haha! I really liked it actually but holy bajeebus was it huge. It was literally half a loaf of bread and I felt bad for not being able to come even remotely close to finishing it even with James’ Dad helping me! I still think about that dessert, I think I need to try and make one at home!
Miss Marple’s was really nice but I don’t really understand why there is always such a crazy wait to get in as it was all fairly standard tea offerings and the busy atmosphere was nice but took away from the experience a bit. I think it’s one of those places that you definitely have to go once though!
After that we went for a wander around the shops. The one thing I really love about this area is the abundance of flowers.
Puppy paw prints!
Bonus shot: This may be the creepiest toy shop I’ve ever seen. It had dolls hanging from the ceiling above the sidewalk. It was like a horror movie *_*

Queen Victoria Night Markets – Melbourne Snapshots

by | Jun 7, 2014 | Life

This week I made microwave fudge and it was AWESOME.

We went to the Queen Vic Night Markets because it was so fun last year.
This year there were way too many people though so it was very uncomfortable. A lot of Melbourne events are really getting far too big to be fun anymore 🙁
This is the face of a very unimpressed James who paid $10 for terrible sangria that seemed like it must be good because EVERYBODY had one, let that be a lesson to you kids.
This was apparently a silent disco. It may have been the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
I was craving okonomiyaki so I made a bee line to the Japanese stand at the back of the markets.
For the money it was pretty terrible :/
The night was saved by delicious Pierogi though! These guys are always so awesome! Also I love his shirt.
YUM.
James got a meatball sub from The Meatball Co which was really good too!
All in all I don’t think I’m going to go back next year, it’s too crowded and the prices are pretty terrible these days for what you actually get. That said, next year when I’m craving Pierogi I’ll probably change my tune haha!

High Tea At The Windsor- Melbourne Snapshots!

by | May 31, 2014 | Life

We were lucky enough to be able to have high tea at the Windsor with James’ parents when the last visited and it was so much fun!

Even the trams were getting in the 1920’s mood for us ^_^

The Windsor is such a beautiful building, it still has all of it’s original detailing and features.
The tea menu was full of delicious sounding things!
James’ Mum was so cute!
Kris hid behind the scones for most of the afternoon.
How can anyone not be excited when presented with that many sweets?
Family photo time! The wait staff were very nice to take a heap of photos for us 😀
I thought my flowery nail art was appropriate for tea.
I tried champagne for the first time and hated it. All class!

The desserts were super yummy! I had never tried elderberry before but this jelly was so scrummy!
Of course, it wouldn’t be us if something stupid didn’t happen… James dropped the sugar tongs into the milk -_-‘ Can’t take us anywhere!
Some more of the beautiful old world details in the hotel…
These are the old elevators!
It was an amazing experience and I would highly recommend checking it out if you have time and are in Melbourne! I’m one step closer to my goal of visiting all of the high tea places in Melbourne now haha!
Bonus pic:  This is James’ resulting food coma after eating all of those cakes.

My Week In Photos -Melbourne Snapshots

by | May 24, 2014 | Life

I’ve had a very crazy week, I kind of like leaving all of these photos uncaptioned because then you have to guess why on earth I’ve been taking photos of a broken deer head XD

I hope you’re all having a lovely one! What have you all been up to?

 

Rub My Tummy Humans! – Melbourne Snapshots

by | May 17, 2014 | Life

Lottie says… what? Shut up and rub my tummy more Human. Yeah baby.

Blue screening is fun!
Poor hot Lottie got an ice cream treat. Before anyone comments this time, she is NOT lactose intolerant and our vet says it’s fine for an occasional treat.
She sure seemed to love it!