Captain Melville 34 Franklin St, Melbourne (03) 9663 6855 or www.captainmelville.com.au After 160 years in service, Melbourne’s oldest coaching hotel has been transformed into a new dining destination, Captain Melville. Renovated by Breathe Architecture, the vision for the new venue was to resurrect the experiences of the coach house in its early days, reflecting the 1850s
Harbour Room: Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron, Pier Road, St Kilda (03) 9534 1300 orwww.foodanddesire.com Food & Desire has been busy since Leigh Worcester and his partner took over the business in the new millennium. A change of direction led the catering company from corporate lunches to far more ambitious functions, and since then they’ve refashioned
The Order Of Melbourne: (03) 9663 6707 or www.theorder.com.au ‘Established in 1890’ could be tacked alongside The Order of Melbourne’s Latin inscribed motto ‘Omnes Bibimus Nostris Sodalitas’, so accurate are the antique touches. Patrons often give mistaken kudos to part owner and designer of The Order, Margo Orr, ‘A lot of people walk in and