....go on, list the best food joints in the country. I'm talking about Pizza/Fish and Chip/Coffee/Kebab/Souvlaki Shops here in the main, but if you have a ripper bakery-cake shop, then go for it.

Even the Kiwi's on here can list for shops over there too.

Something like "Mario's Pizza, Balmain, NSW. Large Hawaiian's for $12. I eat there all the time".

Suburban/localised joints preferred. But shops on 'main road shopping strips' can be named also. Chain stores please avoid.


Edited by wamackie: 5/3/2013 11:44:03 PM

Bar Tosca on Foveaux. Brilliant coffee and the food is great too.

Warners at the Bay hotel has amazing chicken schnitzels

There's a bunch of mad Kebab places on Sydney Rd. The best one is at the BP on Bell st though.

Best burger in South Melbourne is at the Clarendon St Fish and Chips.

More will come to me later.

Where abouts in Balmain is that?

IMO the best Pizza joint in Balmain is Stars at Gigi's opposite Gladstone Park. Marina Lunga opp. Town Hall Hotel does a mean pizza, too!

The Yeeros store opposite Bankstown Station (located on the railway overpass) does an insane kebab. Haven't been there in a while, but should go back.

Urgh, I swear the only take away people have on the Gold Coast is McDonalds.

There's a few decent kebab and curry places if you're willing to look for them. There's this Indian take away at Tree Tops on the Coast which does a $12 curry with rice poppadoms and a drink, I also recommend spending the extra $2 for a naan. Considering the next cheapest Indian take away on the Coast is about 20-25 bucks without poppadoms or a naan, it's not bad. There's one round the corner to that though which always has a lot of people in it, I haven't gone there yet but I imagine it's more a restaurant than a take away place.

http://www.eljannah.com.au/

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Kosmos Kebab Shop on Grand Blvd in Joondalup. Large Chicken Kebab with Bacon. Absolutely epic after a night on the piss.

Andrew's Hamburgers, Albert Park (or there abouts), Vic. Best hamburgers for the way the different ingredients integrate when you bite it. No need for wagyu here.

+1 , also agree with Afro re Clarendon street fish and chips. The kebab place on Clarendon street is sweet too.

Curry Paradise in Melb was where it was at before they closed down :(

-PB

The best kebab I've ever had has got to be in Footscray at the corner of Gordon and Ballarat Roads. It's on the ground floor of a student apartment building. My girlfriend and I used to go there multiple times a week when she was living there because the food was just too good!

Also in Footscray there is the Taj Palace. Anyone in the area knows about it because its been mainstay for decades, and there's a good reason why.

For cheap food that's also good near Melbourne Uni go to Don Tojo's on Cardigan St, about 5 minutes away. Massive bowls of Japanese food for under $7 and bottles of Asahi for $4. I swear I go there at least once a week. The chicken curry don is amazing. You can even get extra chicken for another $1 or so.

Edited by jonzey: 6/3/2013 08:35:51 AM

Best burger in Melbs for me is either Huxtaburger on Smith St Collingwood or from Beatbox Kitchen.
Taco Truck is pretty delicious.
Best fish and chips for me is Hooked, there's one on Chapel St & one on Brunswick St.

streetz - get yourself to a wednesday night Wangi Pub snitzel night & thank me later.

in melbourne we went to the pancake parlour in bourke st mall (below rebel) and i'm pretty sure i'll rarely have breakfast anywhere else while in melbz again

It never occurred to me until you said this that Pancake Parlour was a Melbourne only thing. I had the same "never eating breakfast anywhere else" feeling when I first tried this place http://www.demitrisfeast.com.au/p/menu.html

Il Dolce Fredo on Lygon St in Melbourne has amazing ice cream.

Southern Cross Hotel in Tempe has a quality parma too.

The best parma's are at Mrs. Parma's on little bourke or La Roche on Acand st.

Clarendon Kebabs wins bonus points because they deliver.

The best kebabs in Melbourne for me are at Town Hall Kebab van on Sydney rd.

It was on Anthony Bourdain's show FFS. Go there.

Also on Sydney rd, The Edinburgh Castle hotel does smashing kangaroo burgers.

Was an example how what to say mate

Kings Corner Kebabs @ South Hurstville nr King George's Road
Charcoal Kingdom @ Rockdale
Rocksia @ Banksia

There are so many I can list... I should probably fix my eating habits.

One more. Mina's Lebanese Bakery @ Carlton.

That place is bloody amazing.

Ahhh. :lol:

I'm thinking 'I live in Balmain, I've never heard of Mario's Pizza'. :lol:

How can you have a kebab with no tomato?

This. Just discovered this the other. And theres a van further up bell near St Georges rd I think.

+1

Is Marrickville Yeeros still around? Used to be quality, haven't been there in yonks.

I don't know about the other side of Sydney Rd. But the one at the BP across from Sussex st is tops.

Speaking of Kebabs, went to Glenelg in Adelaide in Round 2, some place near the water there, absolutely shit-house kebab (or yiros as they called it). Bread was crap, sauce was crap.

Melbourne on the other hand, had Stalactites (Spelling?). Very very good. Probably one of the best I've ever had. Souvlaki they called it.

Haven't had cravings for a kebab in about a year. Hmm.

Stalactites is good because it's 24 hour. But it's only a bit above average.

Where abouts?

Meat pie & sausage rolls just good honest Anglo food none of this kebab and pizza bollocks

Pies can actually be traced back to Eastern Mediterranean origins, specifically Ancient Egypt :lol:

Edited by afromanGT: 8/3/2013 12:14:16 AM

I forgot the place that's probably my favourite, Wonderbao in the city is awesome. Super tasty steamed buns for $2, so damn good. Also, the Lemon Donuts from Movida Bakery (South Yarra) are tops & the sausages from Snag Stand (Melb Central) and Phat Brats (Brunswick St) are pretty great too.

Big mistake clicking on this thread :(

Fergburger - Queenstown. Cant remember the exact name of the burger but the Fergburger with blue cheese is late night cuisine at its finest.

Yanni's Yiros? on Unley Rd. in Adelaide is decent.

Ying Chow in Chinatown.

Tandoori Kitchen, Unley Rd.

Anywhere that sells Vili's pies late at night.

Marrickville/Victoria Yeeros. Ah of course. I was there 2 weeks ago and forgot to list it :lol: Still great. VERY popular these days, but still a great joint. They've bought out the shop next door and extended their premises. They've got a bar and more seating + redid the signage out the front.

Edited by keepersball: 8/3/2013 02:43:15 PM

+ 1. Stalactites has made me sick on more than one occasion. But i'll still go there if drunk enough in the city.

I've been off most of the 'unhealthy' crap lately (eating proper food, no drugs, no caffeine, cut back on drinking) and all it's done is make me think about food constantly :(

Rule 1 of going to a kebab stand late at night: don't order the chicken.

Good work though, that's awesome :)

I was more just hating this thread because while I'm at uni I'm basically eating only one meal a day, so any mention of food sucks.

I used to sit in the back of classes and eat :lol:

Nobody seems to eat in lectures actually, it's strange. I'm just too lazy to prepare food/too poor to buy lunch.

3 pages and not a single mention of Jimmy's Kebabs?!?

Dear Lord...
Had Jimmy's at 3am last night... Can confirm, it was sensational.

That just sounds dirty. :lol: 'Had Jimmy's at 3am last night'. :lol:

Served out of a caravan in a parking lot
Hours are 8pm til 4am, high quality affair.

Edited by Multi_Protect: 9/3/2013 11:23:10 PM

Probably because you're the only person to be out at 3am in Parramatta and survive to tell the tale.

Haha and I'm white as Martha Stewart!

:lol: you're an ass