A Happy Monday Dear Readers! I hope you all had a good weekend.Yesterday while I was breakfasting Mr NQN shouted out to me “You’re in The Age newspaper!”. It was an article where they discussed how some restaurateurs don’t like food bloggers taking photos. It was an interesting article but I just thought that it was a bit of a shame that they focused on very rare negative experiences whereas I’ve mostly had positive experiences. Out of the 550 plus dining out experiences for NQN, only 2 places have ever asked me not to take photos. The negativity is not a pattern or widespread-thankfully 
And my how things have definitely changed…
I hesitated. “With The Press Club, will they be ok with photos? George Colombaris is very anti food blogger so I just want to make sure they’ll be ok.” I ask Tourism Victoria when they ask me whether Mr NQN and I would like to dine at The Press Club Restaurant and Bar. It was apparently not a problem at all – phew!
The chef’s table
We take in the room. It’s very modern with specially commissioned orange Kosta Boda water glasses and a chef’s table at the front in which diners book a spot and enjoy a bird’s eye view of the open kitchen (and chefs will send you out a few morsels to try too ). There are dark browns everywhere and expensive flower arrangements.
Kalamata and wild olives in olive oil from Crete and Cypriot black salt
We start off with some kalamata and wild olives in some olive oil from Crete served with a Cypriot black rock salt with an olive and sourdough bread. I try these and they’re good but I am saving room for the entrees and mains (trust me, we have the lamb coming ).
Chicken – pastelaki of its wings, kritharaki, mytzithra snow $23.90
We start with some meatballs of chicken made from deboned chicken wings served with a rice shaped pasta like orzo. This is served with a sheep and goat’s milk cheese which is similar to a reggiano (the “snow”). It’s delicious, the soft chicken morsels fried on one side with one of my favourite types of pasta and just the right amount of mytzithra “snow”.
Prawns – jamon, zomos. nashi pear, parsnip, revithia $32.90
Mr NQN likes this multi part dish. They are pan fried prawns with cubes of consommé and serrano ham jelly on a bed of jamon serrano. It’s served with a confit of parsnip and finely sliced salsify (a vegetable often called poor man’s asparagus). If you were trying to decipher the menu as I was the zomos is the jelly and the revithia is the jamon. There are also little dots of golden raisin puree. The dish, even though it had many seemingly disparate parts and textures, all worked well together.
Lamb – ‘neck’, miso mousaka $45.90
Not ordinarily on the lunch menu we were lucky enough to try the signature dish in the same incarnation as it appears on the dinner menu. It’s a slow cooked lamb neck which is cooked for 16 hours. It’s topped with dehydrated feta and a saffron and shallot puree and accompanied with fermented garlic, fried sweetbreads (pancreas) and a miso moussaka eggplant. And god it is good. The lamb is incredibly soft and the perfect accompaniment to the layered miso eggplant. The fermented garlic has an almost mushroomy aroma to it and is slightly tough to cut and the fried sweetbreads are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. The only element that I don’t go for is the sauce and I prefer the lamb without it.
Mr NQN ordered a glass of the Golden Ball Beechworth 2006 “Gallice” wine Cabernet Merlot $21
Pig – Bangalow pork, baklava, loin, belly, apple horiatiki $46.90
I try the pork which comes in three different parts – the loin, belly and as a baklava. Bangalow pork is a particularly moist and fatty pork. The loin is braised in mountain tea with pistachio and golden raisins the pork bell is grilled and the pork shoulder is combined with a baklava. It comes with a star anise and carrot jus and the whole plate is finished with a jus gras (juices from roast chicken). The pork baklava is interesting with super soft meat much like a rillette and not many nuts and no filo pastry so it’s entirely different in concept from the delectable pork belly baklava we had at Perama. The pork belly of course is my favourite cut, easily sliced and oh so jellied and soft. The loin is moist and tender and it topped and the mountain tea adds a hard to place mysteriousness. The apple horiaktiki is their version of a thinly sliced apple salad which gives it sweetness and refreshment.
Sweet corn – kalaboki charred, herbed yoghurt cheese, almonds $9.50
The sweet corn comes off the cob with finely sliced red onion, toasted almonds and with a herbed labne cheese rolled in a mix of parsley, chives and dill with dill being the predominant herb. It’s a good combination and the salad has sweetnesss, crunchiness and creaminess.
Potatoes – crispy patates, patzari, feta $9.50
The hand cut potatoes are lightly crunchy on the outside and soft, moist and fluffy on the inside. It is served with a smooth and vividly shaded beetroot and feta dip.
Aphrodite – white chocolate mousse, cherries, roses, soil, scent $18.90
I was too stuffed to contemplate dessert (I know, shame on me 
) but luckily Mr NQN could fit it in. The Aphrodite is multi part dessert starting with a white chocolate mousse with a liquid rose and raspberry centre. This sits on a bed of baked chocolate biscuit crumbled “soil” and a single maraschino like cherry. And before we know it our waitress sprays the black art deco style atomiser and a cloud of rosewater envelops us although it is more a wet than a misty dispersal. That’s the scent part. The mousse is lovely and light and the centre oozes out slowly but surely. The jellies and tart frozen berries give the sweet mousse a nice counterpoint. The soil is rich and perhaps a bit overly generous in the portions as the strong dark chocolate can overwhelm the rest of the dessert.
We roll out of there satisfied and stuffed to the gills and smelling like rosewater!
So tell me Dear Reader, do you think that photos are important on a food blog?
NQN and Mr NQN dined at The Press Club as a guest of Tourism Victoria
The Press Club Restaurant & Bar
72 Flinders St, Melbourne, Victoria
Tel: +61 (03) 9677 9677
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Lorraine, I am so glad most places don’t mind us taking photos, it is just such an important part of the blog!! I couldn’t imagine not having photos to show what an amazing food I have had!! I’m with you on this one lovely
what an incredible meal, and your photos are amazing….wow.
thanks so much for sharing!
Oh yes, photos are very important, but I do get nervy about pulling the camera out at a restaurant. Luckily we don’t eat out much..
yep, they are. That being said, if something is well written, I will read it regardless, but the photos are nice to look at and definitely help to break up the story. My readers appreciate my photos even though they are poor quality and snapped on an iphone.
Whoah how apt is this post today
I think photos are vitally important, they draw you in an entice you. I think they’re a major drawcard and give you the opportunity to be a pseudo diner.
Of course! I don’t think I’d just ‘read’ blogs about food, I need the pornyness
A food blog wouldnt be one without photos. It would be like eating your dinner blindfolded- while some senses would be heightened you miss out visually on enjoying the process.
That dessert looks heavenly.
Wow, so lucky to try the lamb although the pork looks just as good. Photos are very important in blogs – even the best bloggers would find it hard to express the presentation of a dish that a photo can
I had lunch at Press Club – it was the Sunday Kerasma and while some of the dishes were very good, some of them were terribly average too. The chicken was really dry and bland and the potatoes were hard. Sad because it let down what was otherwise a really nice (and affordable) lunch. I honestly had put in in the pile of restaurants I would not bother going back to but you post may have convinced me otherwise… The food looks absolutely amazing!
Ah yes I read that article last night.
Photos are essential to a blog. If there are no photos to accompany a post, most times I don’t even bother reading…
Glad you had a good delicious time at the Press Club though. Gotta love the lamb from there =D
I do indeed- I love them, yours particularly are spectacular. I do wonder though how you manage to get such fantastic shots when the lighting is often so poor? Not that I’m complaining about low lighting- my cherub asked me what the ‘crack’ in my face is last night. Mama needs botox!
without a dought ….. almost like a cooking book ..if there are no lush photos for the recipes then i would skip it altogether.
Perfect timing – I’m booked in for dinner this week and SO looking forward to it!
The Aphrodite looks gorgeous. White chocolate mousse is one of my favourite desserts. So glad you were able to take pictures. I have always wanted to read a food bloggers post on George restaurant.
the photos are the main reason i read your blog!!!! very important!!!
Looks delicious – especially the chicken dish – but the whole situation is strangely ironic isn’t it? The big chef who is outspokenly anti-blogger has a blogger promoting his restaurant. Bemusing really.
I found it very interesting that, after reading the article in the Age yesterday, I noticed that the Age is running a gastronomy and photography competition promoted with “To enter, simply submit a photo of something from a dining experience. From a dish, to the
décor or even the chef, anything goes”.
Yes, without a doubt!
Photos are vital in food blogging. Photos make you feel that you’re experiencing the food along with the blogger. I might also point out that it is usually the best photos that make the cut on a blog – I have never posted a picture of bad looking food…
What a negatively skewed article. Shame, really…
Photo’s – good ones – really make a blog more accessible, but take some time to get right. Or so I’ve found!
So glad he allowed photography after giving food bloggers a spraying.
I think photography is essential. A single picture says more than any words could in the context of both restaurants and recipe books (so hard to be inspired to bake something without a picture enticing me, no matter how amazing the recipe might be).
The Aphrodite dessert above for example: how hard would it be explaining that dish without a gorgeous pic? If George explained he’s serving a white choc mousse with berries i’d be like “sure, ok” but show me the picture? Hella yeah George! Bring that baby on!
If I could chooose one place I’d like to dine at the moment, it would be the Press Club. I keep hinting to hubbie to whisk me away for the weekend (no pun intended)! This food looks divine and I especially want to try George’s rosewater dessert – I’ve heard good things about it. Thanks so much for this post!
And yes, without a doubt, images are a critical part of a food blog. The images help take you on the dining journey. Plus, it can be too easy to imagine how a dish looks by a description (say on a menu) and then be surprised by how it actually comes out.
Keep up the fabulous work. x
Definitely! – your photo of ‘Aphrodite’is an invitation to head off to Press Club.George should be very pleased with your work!
The food looks amazing – shame you had no room for the Aphrodite because it looks wonderful. I think photos are important on a food blog – it helps you to visualise the dish and know what the person is writing about, not to mention making the post more interesting!!
What a beautiful post to start off a cold monday!
What I love most about your blog are you amazing photographs – a food blog simply wouldnt be the same!
Personally love taking photos of food at restaurants for my blog, and my other half and I have never experienced any problems – although we are careful not to annoy any of the other patrons. I suppose it simply comes down to proper food photography ettiquete and being mindful of other diners.
Love your blog Lorraine! Im heading to mmelbourne next weekend and will definately try to get a booking at The Press Club.
We enjoyed our experience at Press Club about a year ago – excellent service.
Yes – photos are very important! In a medium where we can’t smell or taste, we need to eat with our eyes.
That looked like a very special dining experience – made my mouth water!
I think photos are essential on a food blog. I’d say 80% – 90% of the appeal of food is being able to see it.
oh yum it all looks gorgeous!!!!!!! Especially dessert, oh my such pretty pinks!
But imagine not being able to share photos of the meal with us – ugh, it’s all in the photos!!!!!!!!
now tell me you must work out or do something to burn off all the eating out you do? treadmill hidden away at your house?
Corrie:)
Personally, a food blog without photo’s is a pointless exercise. What is it that some places fear about food bloggers? Is it our honesty? The food spread at Press Club looks quite good even though the rose water spritz made my eyes roll when I read it. And at those high-margin prices I’d expect a ten minute foot massage as well
Yes I think photos are very important on a food blog. If no photos are not thee, words cannot describe the lusciousness of certain foods.
don’t they say a picture is worth a thousand words? Some of us a verbal communicators and some of us are visual, why not combine the best of both?
That Pork looks soo yummy, and rose is one of my most favourite flavourings!
I really do think it is important. Take today’s pics of the press club. Many of the dishes, particularly dessert, would be so difficult to describe without the image. The image is usually what makes me desire to visit the restaurant, our senses are so interconnected in that way.
The menu read amazingly…the plate presentation was an inspiration on its own.
If it weren’t for the photos…I don’t see how I would ever be enticed to go to such an establishment.
What’s a food blog without photos…dead boring and will never get my attention.
Great post.
Flavourful wishes, Claudia
You were too full for dessert?? How is that possible?
I think photos are essential for a blog. After all, people eat with their eyes. And beautiful photos only reinforce a well-written piece. But I can understand how some restaurants frown upon that behavior. It can be a distraction for other diners, even if you don’t use a flash. I have never had a problem. But I’ve also never toted my camera when I’ve had dinner at a place like the French Laundry. The atmosphere is so serene and the experience so incomparable, I prefer to remember it just in my own mind’s eye and to be there in the moment every single second that I’m dining there.
I think photos are so important on a restaurant review/food blog. That chef was wrong to focus on negative points when blogs give them good publicity. Good for you Lorraine!
And the Press Club looks great, how can George not like food bloggers?
OH MY!!! I can’t get past that dessert!!!! That is the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen, it makes me weep for all the places that classify a slice of cake and scoop of ice cream as a dessert.
I think that photos are definitely an important part of a food blog. I also think that people want to hear about the experience that others have, be it positive or negative.
Food blogs are part of the modern media landscape, like it or not. I think that chefs who ignore or are contemptuous of them are taking a risk.
Pork BELLEH! Sooo obsessed with it lately. Must get to the Press Club asap!
What’s a food blog without photos? I loved the press club, the header on my blog is actually from there. Although I’m surprised there wasn’t much mastic in your dishes. It seemed to be in everything we had, including the dessert!
Photos are essential, can’t get enough gastroporn. You have just reminded me of another reason to go to Melbourne soon.
In answer to your questiom:Do I think that photographs are important on a food blog?
Yes, yes, yes. It’s not just the adage “A picture is worth a thousand words” but the combination of your descriptions and the pictorial evidence that bring the blog and the experience alive. Without the photographs, your appraisals would have been clear but with the photographs the ambience of the restaurant, the richness of the food and the portion sizes would have been lost.
Oooh, that’s the dessert showcased on Masterchef! Still, I think I’d most like to try the corn salad dish. How unlike me
The Aphrodite dessert looks to die for!!!!!!
I do believe photos are an important part of a food blog. People, by nature, are visual and I think they need to see photos to show what a dish could or should look like. Sometimes you can’t quite conjure up an image of how something will look from a description. I often find this the case when reading a restaurant menu as you read the list of ingredients and picture the dish one way and what arrives can be quite (often pleasantly but also sometimes disappointingly) different.
I am a huge George Colombaris fan and I was surprised to read that he isn’t keen on food bloggers taking photo’s as I have heard him say several times that you eat with your eyes first! The delectable images that you have taken on your restaurant adventures have been in many cases my reason for seeking out previously unbeknownst restaurants. Thank you so much for persisting!
Lovely food,so original & a great twist to Greek food.
Photos are so important in a food blog,it’s the whole point of visiting a blog site really.
I for one think photos are fun,
Seeing meals well prepared and how they are done!
Don’t know why George would take such a strong stand,
As we feast with our eyes in our exploratory culinary land!
I am posting here for the first time—just wanted to say that your blog is wonderful, and a nice break in my morning work routine! Yes, photos are extremely important on a food blog; how else could we see what we’re missing???
I am an amateur shutterbug myself; food plating is very interesting to photograph. As long as they allow you, shoot away!
Ooh I have been dying to try out the Press Club, but I have yet to convince the boy to give it a go!
Photos are a definate necessity on a food blog. Personally I hate taking photos so much at restaurants, I never sum up the nerve!
If the restaurants are happy with it – keep going! If they arent, what do they have to hide?
It’s the pics that make you read the text…. and yours are always fabulous! Couldn’t visit Melbourne without dinner at the Press Club…. it’s fantastic!
hi Lorraine…I think food photos in a blog help make the dish…after all who doesn’t love the pics!!! A fantastic meal…love that port and divine dessert!!!
Food looks amazing. At least George is one of those celeb chefs who can actually cook
That Aphrodite dessert looks absolutely heavenly. How could old George not want people blogging about that?…Beautiful. Time for me to up the desserts stakes a little at home I think.
George rolls his cheffie eyes with the best of them regarding food bloggers, but I think deep down he is a big softie who recognizes there is a place for us in the new food age that we live in! Congrats on a lovely article.
The reason why food blogs are so popular (with diners, at least) is because they have great photos. Newspaper reviews are so boring when they’re just words.
Your photos are fab; I really want to go to the Press Club now!
Radio has its place but imagine masterchef on radio instead of television!!! Photos are important – I understand that the atmosphere people pay for at high end restaurants isn’t that of the shutterbugs but I think that it is often the way at social dinners to take photos anyway – well maybe that is in my family.
I have never been that interested in the press club (though I love hellenic republic) as I was told it was a lot of meat – but I love the sound of that corn salad
a complete & perfect food blog is all about d photograghs.
a complete & perfect food blog is all about d photogragh
Love the article, but without the photos there is nothing to drool over. So love have the photos to go along with the descriptions, and would only frequent those who are happy to let you take photos anyway.
The food looks fabulous. I’m going to Melbourne this weekend but have already planned our dining.
I always ask the waiter if it’s okay to take photos and have not be refused yet.
Interestingly George and Gary talk on Masterchef about “eating with your eyes”. People will blog about their food, this way there is the visual temptation as well.
To me, a food blog is like a recipe with a picture. Boring.
photos are everything, although i do appreciate witty commentary.
mytzithra snow? interesting! that corn dish looks yummy too.
Ditto, ditto and ditto to the earlier comments about photographs being a fundamental part of food blogging (and food/recipe literature as a genre, for that matter). And a big “pfffft” to any chef who has a problem with it – quite frankly, your blog makes everything look lush, rather than looking at anything from a negative perspective. Anyone who has a problem with having their product advertised in such a flattering light has got to have their head read (and their ego checked at the door).
Absolutely! I’m not sure why people can get so offended and I wouldn’t know when or who to ask if I wanted to take pictures.
Love this review, I love the Press Club’s rosewater dessert you’ve described above.
That all looked too delicious for words (with the possible exception of the parsnips) Now I have to go to the Press Club when I am in Melbourne. Of course you can’t have a food blog without photos – what would be the point? Have you come across Curly Flat wine on your travels? It is my sister’s wine and I think everyone should try it. It is in most of the top restaurants in Australia.
Deb
Absolutely!!! I must admit I started following your blog because of the amazing pictures you post … and the great content of course ;D
Of course photos are essential to food blogs! How boring it would be to only read about food… it’s all about the visuals and textures and photos are able to draw you right in. I’ve only had 1 restaurant overseas that requested that I not take photos of their food. I can understand that they want to protect their intellectual property, but most restaurateurs are glad for the passion that food bloggers show!
I must say, if a blogger is obnoxious and ruins everyone elses meals with flashes everywhere, I understand it… but most are unfailingly polite and it is like free advertising… especially when the write-up is by someone as good at it as you are!!! As for the restaurant… the food looked great but that dessert… I want to make that… do they give out a recipe… roses and white chocolate..wowowowowow!!!
What is a food blog without photos but I know of a minority that think otherwise and I totally can understand why as well.
I am surprised that Press Club allowed food photography? I guess I should still call and ask before I confirm my booking!
the dessert looks amazing!! i should try that =)
My word they are, what would be the point? It’s like buying a cookbook with no colour illustrations….Boring. Words can describe beautifully but nothing sucks you in faster than an extremely tempting food blog photo, such as most of yours Lorraine! For example my daughter Gabriella just had to make your Popcorn Pomanders as soon as she saw the photo of them on your blog
We eat with our eyes first, then the other senses come into play.
I like all of the dishes above and the way George does his own modern twist to authentic Greek fare. Must make a point of dining at The Press Club next time I’m in Melbourne.
Hi Lorraine – we’ve had the same debate in London (and it’s been going on in New York) about bloggers taking photos. I’m with you on this one, although I admit it’s always good for bloggers to be subtle and considerate about taking photos. Restaurants which ban photos will find themselves getting much less publicity from bloggers and are showing insecurity about their own abilities. Good luck to them claiming copyright in their dishes unless they can show it’s a “sculpture” or a “work of artistic craftsmanship” – that would have to be some burger! Lovely review – I love George Colambaris’ restaurants.
Photos are absolutely integral! In fact so often in the evening i’ll just flip through my enormous pile of cook books (including those in French which I have to concentrate super hard on when trying to decipher) just to look at the pictures and imagine the taste, without actually following through and making it that time. It’s exactly the same with blogs – I love looking at every single one of your posts, even if I don’t try every dish or restaurant. Frankly any restaurant or shop that doesn’t allow this now is being old fashioned and asking for a less than positive post.
I’ve wanted to try the Press Club for years. When I was working in politics, my boss (who was as notorious for being an obsessed foodie as she was a Cabinet Minister) would frequent it and rave about the pork belly. As in my usual style, is the dessert i’m most lusting after (although with the ‘soil’ and the scent, it does seem they’ve gone all Heston Blumenthall).
Miss B xx
That Aphrodite desert looked wonderful, its too bad you couldn’t enjoy it.
Yes, I think taking photos is crucial. I hate taking photos. I hate taking them at home, but i hate taking them even more at restaurants. I find it kind of embarrassing. I want to enjoy my meal, not take pictures of it. Still it has to be done. I dont buy cookbooks without pictures, why should I expect my readers to want to try something without pictures too?
Its my least favourite part about food blogging, but it has to be done.
Do you know, I’m still wary about taking photos, Lorraine. I was told no photos in several places and then pretty much stopped even taking my camera and I kept my cell phone in my purse. (A lot of places don’t allow those, either.) Besides, I’ll never be the photographer you are so I’m going to leave it to you.
I’ll just TELL you about places I like. Deal?
Photo’s are a must on a food blog! No matter how great your descriptions are (& they are!) it’s the photo’s that really get me drooling. Like that pork & the dessert… yum!
Photos are so important. I organised a board dinner at the Press Club before George became famous and the food was fabulous. Went to dinner at the Oxo Tower Brasserie tonight, and though not a food blogger took photographs of the desserts because they were so pretty. I had star anise parfait with orange cake – which sounded weird but worked fabulously. And the photo looks damned fine too!!
I absolutely think photos are essential for food blogging (a little food porn never hurt, right?
). It’s sad to hear that some restaranteurs don’t like food bloggers taking pictures.
Photos are definitely a significant part of the food blog! We are all visual creatures, so its important to have the food represented visually, as well as your wonderfully descriptive text!
I LOVE your photos, they are always so simple yet beautifully representative of the dish, and half the time its what makes me want to read the blog in full and/or visit the restaurant!
wow what a lucky trip. i’ve always wanted to try The Press Club and you guys were a guest of Tourism Victoria which is fantastic. so did you get to meet George or was he too busy with MasterChef series? if i went to the press club i’d want to have george in the kitchen so i know everything would be done to his perfection.
a food blog without photos would probably be like a shoe shop without shoes.
Of course you have to have pics … have to see what the food looks like – it is eating with the eyes. Really, words alone would never get across the lusciousness of the ‘Aphrodite’.
Photos are especially important for heathens like me that couldn’t pick a serrano ham jelly on a bed of jamon serrano to save her life.
wow, you’re famous being invited by tourism victoria as well as being mentioned specifically by the age…anyways, i went to cafe ish last weekend on the good reviews by food bloggers…it was so funny whilst i was there, i overheard the manager talking to this table about food bloggers and how rude this lady was, etc,etc..omg, and i wouldn’t go bck again cos i asked the australian chef when he explained the tuna porridge , ‘it should be good, right?’ and he was sooooo rude, his attitude was appalling, he was like ‘what do you mean it should be good’…when all i needed was some reassurance from him. i mean, other places would have said something along the lines of ‘it’s highly recommended, or ‘i like it, i’m sure u will too’…but he was being sooo defensive..urghh…but he did ask me how it was after the meal, (it was pretty ok) and of cos with his previous attitude, i had to say ‘it was very nice..’..
I’ve been taking photos at restaurants for almost three years now and I’ve never been told to put my camera away (although I was told off for taking photos of the menu at a Sichuan restaurant once, probably because the waitress thought I was going to steal ideas!). I’ve been to The Press Club several times now (great food) and although George Calombaris does not like food bloggers, I’ve had no problems with taking snaps whenever I’ve been there.
On that note, I wasn’t pleased when George C said that the reason why he does not like food bloggers was because they do not know anything about food and hence, should not write about stuff that they are not experts on (or something to that effect). This is coming from a professional chef who, on Masterchef last year, said that he had never seen century eggs before and said that they looked revolting. It’s a shame he had to say stuff like that because I do enjoy his food and when I met him at Taste of Melbourne two years ago, he really was a lovely guy
To answer your question, of course photos are important for food blogs! It’s one thing to read a restaurant review without photos but I have friends who aren’t avid foodies, yet continue to read my blog mainly because the accompanying photos makes the blog much more appealing. Plus, a single photo eliminates the need to write lines of descriptions, thus making your review shorter and subsequently more reader-friendly.
PS: I also saw your name mentioned in The Age. Nice one!
The food at the Press Club does look amazing & will definitely have to visit next time we are in Melbourne.
Just to clarify zomos means juice/broth in greek & revithia is chick peas – not sure how this tied into the dish mentioned but everything looked lovely.
Being married to a chef I can understand from their perspective their criticism of food bloggers. Although everyone is entitled to their opinion as to their likes & dislikes. And who can say no to positive publicity?
Your blog is fantastic Lorraine & has given me lots of great ideas as to recipes & where to eat out…Great work!
Thankyou everyone for your fantastic and supportive comments. It is overwhelmingly clear that photos are indeed very important for a food blog. And like you, I just want to see what I might be eating should I visit a restaurant!
Good lord that lamb neck looks amazing!
I think that photos are important, yes. Of course, great photos are nothing without good writing, so it’s just as well you’re talented at both
Your blogs would mean nothing without the photos! What a great review. I’m heading to Melbourne next month so I’ll have to visit
The white chocolate mousse dessert looks absolutely divine! Lovely photos! The press club is so going to be on my to-go list now.
Hi everyone,
Where can I find the Aphrodite’ recipe? Somebody know?
I had lunch at The Press Club in December and it was to die for! We had the Kali Orexi group menu and it was amazing! Slow Cooked Lamb was outstanding, full of flavour and simply melted in the mouth. Aphrodite is out of this world! We all took photos as it was part of a girls weekend and the staff had no problem at all with it. Would definately return to TPC next time I’m in Melbourne
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