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Back Chat with Courtney Price PAG E 7

Home Of The Week PAG E 1 0

Melbourne Makers: Hot Haus Glass PAG E 1 3

“In the hot shop, you need to be a good team player, good at communicating and able to work with other people.”

Neighbourhoods: Deepdene

Feature: Hot Haus Glass

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Food & Drink: Retro Revival PAG E 1 8

Property Listings PAG E 2 1

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THREE OF A KIND

Small-Batch Panettone Most panettones you see in shops are imported from Italy. These bread-cake hybrids come with a dome-shaped top, have the butter-and-egg-yolk quality of brioche, and are sweetened with sultanas and candied orange peel mixed through the dough. Recently, local Melbourne bakers have levelled up the traditional Milanese Christmas bread with their own sourdough and croissant versions, adding everything from macadamia and cherries to Valrhona chocolate. — PM

Baker D Chirico, Carlton

Messmates 15 Palmerston Street, Warragul

To Be Frank, Collingwood & Elsternwick

New Gippsland restaurant Messmates feels more like a London wine bar than your typical Victorian destination diner. It’s owned by siblings Chris and Jodie Odrowaz, and their respective partners Jess Odrowaz and Michael Clarke.

Set inside a former church, the European-bar-inspired fit-out is warm and elegant with a small open kitchen, curved leather banquette seats, dark cabinetry and earth tones throughout.

The menu – designed by co-head chefs Jodie and Michael who share Michelin-star cred – is influenced by classic French and Italian cuisine. There’s comforting half roast chicken served with Gascony butter and peppers; chicken liver parfait with quince; and tagliatelle tossed through green sauce – all made using locally grown produce.

The next-gen spot is a big win for the region, making for a great weekend getaway destination or weeknight hangout for those lucky enough to live nearby. If you’re travelling, Messmates’ Sunday long lunch – an ever-changing set menu – is the one to book. — AP Photo: Lauren Murphy

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Little Tin Co

Meatsmith: Home Cooking For Friends and Family

Moonlight Cinema

Tinned fish – dubbed “hot girl food” on Tiktok – is officially one of the internet’s favourite eats.

South Australian company Little Tin Co sells sustainably caught, artisan canned seafood produced in Australia. Founded by Dan and Rachel Weeks, it offers three products – sardines in oil, smoky mussels in whisky, and hot-smoked kingfish with vermouth pate – packaged in nautical artwork by Aussie painter Ingrid Mangan. Previously sold online, the tins are finally available in Melbourne stores, including Blackhearts & Sparrows and Skinner & Hackett. — AP

Andrew McConnell, of Gimlet and Supernormal fame, and Troy Wheeler – formerly head butcher at the esteemed Peter Bouchier – own four marbleswathed meat emporiums around Melbourne. In this elegant new cookbook, named for the luxe Meatsmith chain, the chef and the butcher share tips and wisdom for mastering the art of cooking with meat, alongside 80 definitive recipes to inspire weeknight meals and fabulous dinner parties. Meat is sometimes the star, sometimes the support act, and well-matched sides also make valuable cameos. — KW

$15.95 / littletinco.com.au

$60 / hardiegrant.com

The annual pop-up season for movies under the stars is back. Park yourself on a beanbag or picnic blanket and settle in for open-air screenings of new-release flicks, family classics and Christmas favourites like Love Actually, Home Alone, Die Hard and Elf. Elf Enjoy with a spritz from this year’s Aperol bar, or upgrade your ticket for prime viewing spots with waiter service. Plus, you can bring your pooch (and hire a bed for them too). — GG Dec 1–Mar 30 / Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne / moonlight.com.au

HOME MAKER Hall of Flame Founded by Perth designer Sheridan Tjhung, Hall of Flame is the purveyor of Australia’s tallest candles. Its signature line comes in dizzyingly tall heights and all sorts of hues, from carnival red to pistachio green. The tallest candles clock in at one metre high and 36 hours’ burn time, elevating any table they’re placed on – literally. “Candles on tables has become a huge trend … Our tall tapers create such a sense of ambience. It’s so theatrical – kind of like the candles you’ll find in a cathedral,” Tjhung says. — SG Prices start at $11 / hallofflame.store Photo: Sophie Pearce

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Errol Street, North Melbourne

Name: Hayashi Mado Age: 25 Occupation: Student What are you wearing today? That’s a tough question! I bought these pieces with my mum in China. Mostly from a website – she knows the sources, but I’m not quite sure about the brands. I picked the colour, size and style.

I’m wearing a cap today because the sunshine is strong and I forgot to wear sunscreen. It also gives me a relaxed look. How would you describe your style? I like blue quite a lot. I often wear some blue or purple eye shadow. I choose comfortable clothes because I’m a student now and this sort of outfit is great for going to uni. I would say my style fluctuates – I like to dress quite genderless and androgynous.

Hospo power couple Jason M Jones and Brahman Perera (of Entrecote fame) are transforming what was Rufus Bar into a glam champagne bar dubbed Gigi: Salon à Champagne.

The 40-seat spot, across the road from Entrecote, is expected to open in February.

Gigi will open at 1/143 Greville Street, Prahran Mister Bianco has found a new home two blocks away from the original location.

The three-in-one venue – formerly occupied

by Hellenic Republic and most recently Nazar – will also be home to Bianchetto, a standalone bar, and an upstairs event space called La Sala.

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Rosemary Andrews, the pastry chef behind 2021’s legendary Attica Summer Camp dessert trolley, is opening Mietta – a six-month Malvern pop-up bakery. Sample her hit eight-layer carrot cake, seven-layer honey-miso cake or twotexture chocolate cake. 23 Glenferrie Road, Malvern / @miettamelbourne One of our favourite north-side meal-delivery services is launching into Melbourne’s south and bayside. The Sweet Potato Kitchen from cook Emmy Feingold is all about tasty homecooked meals made with ethically sourced ingredients and organic produce. Rotating dishes include lamb tagine, ginger and sweet potato coconut stew, and quinoa and miso congee. thesweetpotatokitchen.com.au es Takamoto

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St Kilda restaurant Stokehouse’s tropical Christmas puddings are on again. The readymade take-home puds are $75 each and can be ordered online for pick up before 6pm each day till December 24. 30 Jacka Boulevard, St Kilda / stokehouse.com.au

URBAN NORTH MELBOURNE Nestled near Melbourne’s heart, North Melbourne beckons with its eclectic energy fuelled by trendy cafes and cultural hotspots.

Residents savour Victorian terraces and stylish lofts, making urban living an art.

Maker & Monger and G McBean Family Butcher have joined forces for a limited-edition glazed ham Christmas toastie. Available week weekends – December 16–17 17 and 23–24 24 – until sold out.

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MEDIAN HOUSE PRICES NORTH MELBOURNE

1 bed unit, $320k 2 bed unit, $593k 2 bed house, $920k Source: Data based on sales within the last 12 months

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Courtney Price Words by Gitika Garg Photo by Michaela Taylor

The Elka Collective founder produces understated silhouettes for pared-back fashion.

Courtney Price never thought she’d end up running a fashion label. “I have no formal pattern-making background whatsoever, I literally could not even hem a pair of pants,” the Elka Collective founder tells Broadsheet. “I thought I would go into print or digital media working for a magazine.”

But over the past decade Price has found her herself at the vanguard of fashion, creating pared-back essentials for people who want to dress well, every day. You might find her Melbourne label in wardrobes alongside the likes of Camilla and Marc, Sir and St Agni – luxe ready-to-wear pieces with minimalist lines that suit the Australian lifestyle.

After working as a graphic designer for a fashion label fresh out of uni, Price slowly transitioned into womenswear design. She founded Elka in 2014 after noticing a gap in the market for luxe contemporary clothing at accessible prices – without compromising on quality. “I used the resources from my employer at the time and sort of pitched the idea to them, and we created a new brand on the side,” she explains.

The launch featured a 20-piece summer collection comprising simple cotton and linen silhouettes, and sold to small Australian retailers including independent Melbourne chain Eco D. “It got picked up pretty quickly and probably faster than what we expected,” Price remembers.

Her years in graphic design probably didn’t hurt in nailing the brand’s visual storytelling, packaging and point-of-sale – plus building a website. Buoyed by industry contacts and expert advice, Price began opening her own standalone retail spots. In the past 12 months alone she’s expanded from five stores to 13 – including concept spaces and department store concessions.

Most recently, the brand opened boutiques in Melbourne’s Albert Park and Claremont in Perth – both fitted out with chrome fixtures, marble tops and a tonal colour palette, a nod to the effortless minimalism of its clothing.

Price designs four signature collections a year – each featuring 80 ready-to-wear pieces. A cycle begins by pulling together mood boards to inspire the season’s colour palette and silhouettes.

“I started off really designing clothes that I wanted to wear and that my friends wanted to wear,” she says.

Taking cues from her own aesthetic, Elka’s collections are relaxed, elevated and timeless, featuring softly tailored pieces that are not “overly feminine and [instead] a bit more androgynous”. That might mean new-season blazer dresses nodding to power dressing, a twist on the classic knit vest complete with resin stone details or breezy, wide-legged linen shorts that play on ’90s hemlines.

You’ll not catch Price in bold and bright hues, she says. “I just feel cooler in whites, blacks and neutrals.” The same goes for Elka Collective, where collections come in crisp pared-back hues and the occasional muted pop of colour.

Often Price references the Vogue runway archives for inspiration. “It’s always really nice to go back and see how circular fashion is,” she says.

“If you research it enough you can sort of predict what’s coming.”

After that, the busy Melburnian sketches gar garments including beachwear, crocheted knits and oversized shirts in Illustrator and sits in on fit sessions before styling ecommerce shoots and work working with her social media team. “I like that I get to do a bit of everything,” she explains.

Despite growing the brand to where it is today, Price prefers to keep her wins low-key. The same doesn’t go for her partner, though. “If I’m out with my husband and someone’s out and about wear wearing Elka, he’ll stop them and be like, ‘Hey, my wife designed that!’ And I’ll be mortified and curl up in the distance.

“But when you see someone who’s chosen to spend their hard-earned money on something you’ve made, that’s really humbling.”

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HOME & LIFESTYLE

THE FIT- OUT

Six Al Fresco Accessories To Make Your Picnic Chic

By Sanam Goodman

AQUA D O OR DESIGNS NAPKINS - $94 (SET OF FOUR) These blush and neon orange Spaghetti napkins will take your picnic straight to the Amalfi Coast, pasta included.

Hand screen-printed on 100 per cent linen by Brisbane-based textile designer Angela Richardson (the woman behind the label), they’re handy for any wipes, spills and tears shed from laughing too much. aquadoordesigns.com

PEEK NEEK CHOCOL ATE AND BURRATA THICKY RUG - $249 Crafted from handwoven yarn made from recycled plastic bottles and produced by a family-owned weaving business in India, Peek Neek’s Thicky rug is spilland stain-resistant and deliciously stylish. The best bit? The rugs are soft enough to use indoors, perfect for a floor party when the weather isn’t on your side. peekneek.com

WINESTAINS PICNIC STAKE - $35 Don’t trust the precious contents of your wine glass to uneven turf. Shove in a picnic stake from Adelaide-based label Winestains and let the clever wooden holder keep it safe between sips instead.

Handcrafted from recycled wine barrels, each trusty stake comes with a special postcard telling you all about its winery of origin. winestains.com.au

TO GO SUN OUTD O OR PL AT TER - $89 Have your platter and eat it too with Torquay label Togo Sun’s 100 per cent food-grade silicone outdoor platter. It’s got ample sections to fill with all your favourite picnic nibblies and comes with a handy organic bamboo lid that doubles as a chopping board and extra serving space. Available in two retro colourways. togosun.com.au

PUT A LID ON IT SAL AD SERVERS - $29.95 Love bringing fancy salads to your picnics? You can’t look past these colour-drenched salad servers from Put a Lid On It – Sydney-based purveyor of sustainable food containers and accessories. Made in Australia with 100 per cent recycled food-grade plastic, the sophisticated servers are dishwashersafe and can be recycled at end of life. putalidonit.co

BL ACKHEARTS SUNSHINE STUBBY HOLDER - $8 Bid disappointingly warm sips adieu with this cool and compact stubby holder from Melbourne-born boutique bottle-o Blackhearts & Sparrows. Its groovily retro solar illustration just about screams “laying in the sunshine after eating too much cheese”, and that can only be a good thing. blackheartsandsparrows.com.au December 6, 2023

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HOME OF THE WEEK

A family sanctuary by the bay

“This breathtakingly renovated, one-level home is a moments’ walk to a selection of Melbourne’s best schools, and Bay and Church street shopping.

Perfect for entertaining, zoned family living, or to lock up and leave.”

Words by Maria Harris

Brighton, one of Melbourne’s blue-chip suburbs, is a ritzy enclave home to sports stars, celebs and families after the dreamy bayside lifestyle. Once people put down roots here, it’s hard to prise them out.

This home on its corner site is classic Brighton, complete with a swimming pool, multiple living and entertaining areas and just minutes from shops and schools.

Originally Edwardian, it retains its terracotta-tiled roof, wide verandah and side entry but has been redesigned into a lightfilled, contemporary family haven. It is smart, streamlined and elegant.

With an ideal balance of house and land, it is also low-maintenance with an easy connection to the outdoors.

Beneath original restored plaster ceilings are engineered oak floorboards with inlaid brass detailing, stone finishes in the kitchen and bathrooms and opulent designer light fittings. Added visual interest comes from the wall panelling, newly installed coffers on some ceilings and custom joinery.

Double doors open to the reception hall with the formal lounge on one side and the

large open-plan living and dining room and kitchen on the other.

The kitchen, with its stone island bench and breakfast bar, and brass taps and door hardware, is packed with top-notch brands.

There is a Neff induction cooktop and combi ovens, Miele dishwasher and integrated Liebherr fridge-freezers. Combined with a good-sized pantry, appliance cabinet and bar, they should make entertaining easy.

And when you tire of being indoors, simply open the bifolds and glide to the outdoor “room”. Designed to protect you from Melbourne’s fickle weather with a terrace for dining and lounging and an outdoor kitchen, it is the perfect spot for relaxing by the pool.

All four bedrooms are off the transverse hall, zoned well away from the living areas.

The main bedroom is a study in “quiet luxury” with a walk-through wardrobe and a landscaped light-court between the bedroom and the opulent en suite. Three more bedrooms with built-in wardrobes share the pristine central bathroom.

This home has a raft of extras, from the gym or utility room to the attic storage,

automated gates, security system and keyless entry. It even has an Olympic-sized inground trampoline.

The home is opposite Brighton Grammar School and a short walk to Firbank Grammar School, it is also close to the retail and dining precincts of Church and Bay streets.

But it is the home’s great bones and versatility that make it such a wonderful sanctuary, ready to be enjoyed by the next family that wants to call Brighton home.

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NEED TO KNOW This property was last sold for $3.25 million in December 2017, and the highest price recorded for Brighton (past 12 months) was $30 millionplus for 39 Seacombe Grove in November 2022.

RECENT SALES

$2.92 million 11 Roslyn Street, November

$4.515 million 41 Hanby Street, October

$3.45 million 6 Enfield Road, August

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FEATURE

SOME LIKE IT HOT Words by Alice Jeffery · Photos by Kate Shanasy

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Glassblowers Amanda Dziedzic and Laurel Kohut founded Hot Haus in 2019, building a community for local artists and creating a space to hone their craft. Their output is gorgeous, colourful and skilfully made – and they’re looking to teach a new generation how it’s done.

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These are the studio rules at Hot Haus, the independent glassblow glassblowing practice by artists and makers Amanda Dziedzic and Laurel Kohut. The duo founded their studio in Heidelberg West in 2019 after working together across Melbourne for more than 10 years. Having both independently undertaken studies at Monash University and a glass traineeship at Jam Factory in Adelaide, there’s a shared knowledge base and work ethic at play. And it’s this dynamic that keeps the fire burning.

Kohut and Dziedzic create pieces together under the Hot Haus banner: particoloured vases, vessels and objets d’art (plus, in the festive period, lots of sparkling Christmas baubles). They also work on solo projects, teach classes for beginners, and lease flamework flameworking facilities to experienced glass artists who need some time on the tools.

Blowers never work totally in isolation, Dziedzic explains. It’s a spirit of collaboration that appeals to her. “Traditionally you work with one other assistant or maybe two.

So you’ve always got people to bounce off,” she says.

But it was the tactile nature of the trade that first drew her in. “Glass is wild. It goes through all the states. It’s viscous, liquid and then it sets and you’ve got this hard thing.

You’ve got to learn all these skills, how to wield it and make it do your bidding.”

In technical terms, glass is neither liquid nor solid: it’s an amorphous solid, one that lacks an ordered internal structure. Which is ironic considering a well-ordered structure is inherent to the practice.

“We usually like to work in a team of three and each person has a set job,” Dziedzic explains. “The person who is making the work is the gaffer. They’re leading the team.

Then you’ll have your first assistant quite close to the gaffer. And the other assistant is usually the one starting the pieces – they’ll take the first dip of glass and pick up colour from the kiln. It keeps a nice cyclical kind of movement going and it means you can make quite a few pieces in a session.”

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Kohut thrives with this “team sports” mentality, she says. “In the hot shop, you need to be a good team player, good at communicating and able to work with other people. It’s not that you can’t do it on your own, but you can limit yourself. We’re able to make more elaborate pieces and be more efficient in a team,” she says.

In the lead-up to Christmas, Hot Haus studio’s output is firing. The morning before Dziedzic and Kohut speak to Broadsheet, the team blew about 70 baubles in four hours.

But it’s not all hard yards – both glass artists say there’s a particularly meditative quality to the task once the team gets into a flow.

And while working with an element like fire seems as if it could lead to chaos, glassblowing is in fact a very measured, planned medium. “The more you know about the material, and the more experience you have with it, the more in control you are,” Kohut says. It’s science as much as art. The age-old science of transforming base materials into beauty via skill and fire.

Heat is crucial. “If you’re working a cold piece of glass, it’s not going to want to move.

So you’re really tuned into your working period with the heat,” Dziedzic says. The kiln at Hot Haus sits at about 515 degrees Celsius, which can be pretty unbearable in summer. Fatigue sets in quickly in higher temperatures, but music and mood-boosting snacks help.

It’s not just the glass work that’s hands-on.

Dziedzic and Kohut also built Hot Haus studio and its equipment from the ground up.

Dziedzic had been collecting bits of equipment over the years, stashing it until the goal of opening a studio became reality. “Most of our equipment doesn’t come up very often in Australia, it’s one of our biggest hurdles,” she says. “We built our furnace ourselves, which is wild. Laurel designed it, but we had lots of input from Tom Rowney, the tech at Canberra Glassworks. We were building during the pandemic so there were lots of Facetime calls and troubleshooting, ask asking peers and mentors, ‘Is this right? Where can we find this?’”

Colour is a key part of production at Hot Haus. The Urchin vases are transparent single colour items that catch the light with their bulbous form. Pieces in the Colourscapes collection highlight how the team manipulates hues to create movement in each design.

And the Forager vessels lean into the oneoff nature of the craft. Peach, magenta and amber are core shades. But the collection spans the rainbow – mint, yellow and purple baubles feature in this year’s festive offering.

“It always starts with the raw materials.

We melt our batch glass once or twice a week, making around 90 kilos of glass at a time.

This is clear glass and we add concentrated colour bars, which are chopped into small or large pieces depending on how dense

“Glass is wild. It goes through all the states. It’s viscous, liquid and then it sets and you’ve got this hard thing. You’ve got to learn all these skills, how to wield it and make it do your bidding.”

we want it. Otherwise we smash the colours up and pick up little chips for pieces like the baubles,” Dziedzic says.

Unloading the kiln the day after a session is always rewarding for the team – it brings a lot of joy to see the finished works, no matter how many times they’ve been made before.

“We’ve been in the game for so long now. Both Laurel and I have been blowing glass for 20 years. But there are still sometimes happy accidents when it comes to colour combinations we are playing with,” Dziedzic says.

On top of the studio’s core range of vases, glasses and domestic vessels, the duo produce one-off commissions and artworks. Dziedzic often draws inspiration from nature for these pieces. “Plant life is my go-to. Vegetables, fruits, anything in the garden. My newest body of work is looking at fungi,” she says. Blooming roses are another iconic form. While she can’t capture the scent of a flower, she hopes to spark memories in shape and colour – like smelling the roses in her grandmother’s garden.

Kohut takes a more gothic approach in her recent works, looking to Victorian mourning jewellery for reference. “I enjoy investigating the sentimentality of objects and why we hold on to things dearly – what we use as remembrances of people,” she says.

Sharing their craft is also part of the Hot Haus ethos. Dziedzic and Kohut host classes for absolute beginners and budding glass artists. “We love to share our knowledge in the studio. It’s really important for people to come in and experience it for themselves,” Kohut says. “The glass community in Australia is very small and tight-knit. We try to look after each other and we want to foster this creativity so we don’t lose the art form.”

Hot Haus hosts its next open studio day on December 9. Visit Factory 12, 12 52 Sheehan Road, Heidelberg West. Workshops are on offer throughout the year for those looking to learn the fundamentals of glassblowing and expand their skill set.

In the lead-up to Christmas, anyone aged 14 and over can learn to make their own bauble with a one-hour session. Shop online and see more details at hothaus.com.au

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NEED TO KNOW Peaceful Deepdene attracts residents with its lush parks, excellent schools and proximity to the CBD. Homes range from charming period houses to modern apartments, appealing to diverse lifestyles.

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hances are you’ve never heard of Deepdene. That’s partly because – at the risk of sounding like a history lesson – the leafy locale previously sat within the suburb of Balwyn before branching off on its own in 2010.

Sandwiched between Kew, Camberwell, Hawthorn and Balwyn (with which it shares a postcode), the pocket-sized ’burb services just over 2000 residents with a small but tasteful clutch of eateries, local shops and parks.

In close proximity to many of Melbourne’s top private schools, it also falls in the zone for sought-after Balwyn High School – a big draw for academically minded families.

Food and drink options line Whitehorse Road – from casual cafes and takeaway joints to family-owned diners. For break breakfast, head to The Providore and enjoy toasted sandwiches and croissants. From 11am, order mod-Asian dishes including its take on chicken rendang, Chinese pork belly, beef curry rice and fried wontons. For more traditional brunch fare, take a seat at Snow Pony or Ill Delicato just down the road.

Looking for something hearty? Central Burgs flips smash smashable buns filled with double Wagyu beef patties, hash browns, buttermilk fried chicken, panko crumbed portobello mushrooms and more. There’s also District Pho serving comforting Vietnamese cuisine like pork banh mi and broken rice, while soon-to-open Di Francesco Cucina promises Italian dishes and woodfired pizza on the site previously occupied by Postino.

Further along the street, shop for all kinds of plants and beautifully crafted homewares at garden centre Town & Country. Between browsing, grab a seat at its cafe – either inside or outdoors under black and white striped umbrellas – for smashed avo on toast and a slice of cake.

Just over the border in Balwyn, you’ll find the art deco Palace Cinemas screening new blockbuster hits and a host of indie films. Or stroll (or bike) along the Anniversary Trail, running from the Yarra River at Fairfield to Ashburton.

Practise flips at the Linear Park Skate Spot or get active at the Deepdene Tennis Club. Goodlife Health Club is just across the road for those who prefer to break a sweat indoors.

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53% Clockwise from top: Whitehorse Road, Anniversary Trail, Snow Pony tables and coffee, photos Jessie Evans

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Davide Lettieri Marshall White “Deepdene remains a tightly held suburb for good reason. It lends itself to all types of buyer profiles with its close proximity to the CBD, premier schools, shopping precincts and varied property styles.”

Clockwise from top: Town & Country cafe, treats and exterior seating, street art at the Providore, photos Jessie Evans

MEDIAN HOUSE PRICES Median price houses

$2.97m

Median price units

$1.147m

Distance from CBD

10km

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FOOD & DRINK

What’s Behind the Retro Revival in Melbourne Restaurants?

Prawn cocktails. Devilled eggs. Jatz crackers. Vol-au-vents. They might read like the faded pages of an old Women’s Weekly cookbook, but these dishes are hitting the tables at the city’s hottest new bars and restaurants – and proving they have staying power.

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In terms of honouring Victorian produce, I don’t think there’s a better representation on the menu,” says Jacqui Challinor. The executive chef at Reine – Melbourne’s biggest restaurant opening of the year, in the city’s most opulent dining room, in the 1890s neo-Gothic former Stock Exchange building – isn’t talking about the oysters or caviar or confit rabbit on the ritzy menu. She’s spruiking the soft serve.

“We had somebody come in the other day and say, ‘It’s just like Maccas.’ I think they meant it as an insult but I was like, ‘Cool, thanks, that’s what we were going for.’ But with great ingredients.”

Challinor makes her soft serve ice-cream with Gippsland Dairy jersey milk before it’s drizzled with Little Pier extra virgin olive oil and topped with Mornington Peninsula hazelnuts. In an Instagram post she called it “The simplest and most nostalgic celebration of all things Victorian.”

“I think that’s a really cool thing to do,” Challinor tells Broadsheet. “To evoke nostalgia and memories in people and have a bit of fun 18

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with food. Like, let’s not take ourselves too seriously. At the end of the day, we’re cooking food. People should enjoy it and it should be fun and engaging.”

She’s also putting up a southern rock lobster cocktail – served in its shell – a very lav lavish spin on the prawn cocktail she served at top Sydney restaurant Nomad (and its Melbourne outpost).

The prawn cocktail has been a signature at Apollo Inn, the old-world sibling bar to Andrew McConnell’s grand diner Gimlet, though right now the Flinders Lane venue has a prawn club sandwich repping retro seafood instead. It comes with white-bread circles, poached prawns, pickled green tomatoes, smoked bacon and house-made green chilli sauce.

“People love it, especially with a drink preor post-dinner,” says Ben Pollard, executive chef of Trader House, the group behind Apollo Inn, Gimlet and more. “I think it’s a bit of nostalgia for everyone: comfort food and going back to the classics. Everyone can reinvent food and change things, but …

we always look back at the classics when developing the menus.

“At Cumulus Inc we’re about to put [on] a profiterole with ice-cream and hot chocolate sauce,” he says. “And the rum baba is always on at Cumulus – that’s a classic … The Builders Arms always has a classic dessert or a classic entree, like a caesar salad or a take on that.”

From seafood cocktails to devilled eggs, vol-au-vents, savoury eclairs, Jatz crackers and cheese fondue, Australia’s top chefs appear to be mining grandma’s recipes and the pages of old Women’s Weekly cookbooks for menu inspiration. Driven in part by our increasing appetite for comfort and familiarity in weird times, the hottest new bars and restaurants in the country are putting up dishes that would fit right in at a ’70s dinner party. Thankfully, they’re leaving some of the decade in situ (though I’m curious to know if anyone’s doing R&D on an elevated apricot chicken) while presenting new takes on old favourites.

“We wanted the menu to feel familiar and warm, like a dinner party that would have happened years ago,” says Dani Whitehart of Bar

Bellamy. The menu at her cosy Carlton bar has included coq au vin, baked cheese and crudites, chips and dip, devilled eggs, and bread and but butter pudding (served with sourdough ice-cream).

“We’ve had a lot of people saying, ‘Aww, I remember this!’ or ‘My grandma made these!’” says co-owner and partner Oska Whitehart.

“We had someone who works in the area come in for a knock-off and they had a Gibson and a devilled egg and they said, ‘Aww, Dad would be so proud of me,’” he says, laughing.

The devilled eggs are equally popular at Poodle, Fitzroy’s Euro-inspired bar and bistro, which has also been plating up camembert fondue with leatherwood honey, profiteroles with spanner crab and cod roe, seaweed madeleines with caviar, and prawn cocktail vol-au-vents.

“When my wife Zoe [Rubino] and I were deciding what Poodle was going to be we were inspired by the classic old-world bistros of Paris we visited and the longstanding institutional steakhouses of New York, where you’d find a prawn cocktail on the menu and a raw seafood selection on ice,” says co-owner Emilio Scalzo.

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“At the time there wasn’t much of that going around Melbourne and we thought it’d be a unique angle to take, and a fun idea, to incorporate dishes you’d either find on a longstanding menu at a French bistro or in a Woman’s Day cookbook into a more contemporary space.

“I think it creates a talking point,” he continues. “It’s something somebody may inter interpret as a fun novelty to begin with, but at the end of the day these weren’t flash-in-a-pan dishes – they stand the test of time because they’re good.”

The retro revival isn’t just trending in Melbourne. Miso devilled eggs appear on the menu at new Adelaide wine bar Alt. Perth diners are downing pie floaters at Nieuw Ruin and eating Scotch eggs at Bar Rogue, Edward & Ida’s and Bertie. Mitch Orr’s famous Jatz crackers at Sydney’s Kiln have proven so popular they’ve inspired other renditions – chef Savannah Sexton at Adelaide’s House of George put Ritz on the menu. (At their previous gig, Goodwood’s Good Gilbert, Sexton plated up retro Australian dishes like Wonder

White with a sustainable seafood platter, a cae- tarts. People went bananas over it because sar salad-inspired tartare and a Viennetta with they can associate with it, and they under undermiso caramel.) stand the flavour combinations and it reminds “I think it’s got a lot to do with having them of being a kid.” a sense of playfulness with food,” says Oska Dani Whitehart of Bar Bellamy believes Whitehart of Bar Bellamy. “Being able to play the past few years were a particular catalyst with your food seems to be encouraged more. for sentimentality and longing for the past.

Having a sense of fun when you’re going out “When the world gets dark – especially dining and interacting with your food … in Victoria, we had fires and lockdowns, it’s and bringing out a sense of childhood fun. been a pretty full-on few years – we start leanFor instance, we went to a party of a friend ing back into the familiar and comfortable.” and they had fairy bread – it’s enjoyable.”

It could also be another symptom of the Reine’s Jacqui Chal linor a grees. past decade’s casualisation of restaurant “Everybody has their favourite chocolate bar culture and the rejection of stiff service, as a kid or their favourite ice-cream from the starched tablecloths and silent dining petrol station or their favourite after-school rooms. Not to mention the move away from TV snack,” she says. “When you can turn that complex cooking with fancy French techinto something that’s a little bit fine-dining, niques and tweezers towards old-time-y trayou’re never not going to have a positive ditions such as smoking, fermenting and response from people. pickling. (I’m gonna go ahead and submit Challinor says when she worked on the appearance of Italian comfort foods Nomad’s General Store, a Covid-era takeaway and “cucina povera” like cacio e pepe, vodka effort, she noticed people’s interest in dishes pasta, mortadella and ’nduja on wine bar and flavours from their pasts. “We were pull- menus around the country – not to mening out flavours we had as kids, like neenish tion new spins on spring rolls, prawn toast

and other Cantonese-Australian favourites – as further proof.)

“We went through a long period of time where everything had to be clean and sharp and very modern in execution,” says Poodle co-owner Emilio Scalzo. “Whereas I think people are basking in a bit of nostalgia, for whatever reason.”

“I can speak for myself – I want to be able to sit at a table and laugh and make noise and have a glorious old time,” Challinor adds.

“I don’t go out to restaurants anymore that are stiff and quiet and intimidating. I like to eat with my hands and make a mess – I don’t want to sit at a table for four hours.

It’s not irrelevant – that style of dining has a place and there’s a market for it. But what we do here isn’t that,” she says of Reine. “I think people assume with the grandness of the dining room it’s going to be this three-hat three-hatted fancy thing and we’re not that.

“We’re still slinging soft serves,” she says, laughing. “We’re approachable and fun and loud and busy and boisterous and that makes people feel wonderful and warm.”

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Mornington, VIC

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n the warmer months, a trip down to the Mornington Peninsula is a summer ritual for crowds of Melburnians looking to escape the concrete jungle. And the seaside town of Mornington, which sits close to the start of the Peninsula coastline, is the perfect place to begin exploring the region.

An early morning start is recommended to secure your own little piece of real estate on charming coastal stretches like Mills Beach or Fishermans Beach. You’ll be ready for a good-quality coffee upon arrival, so head to Commonfolk for house-roasted

coffee and outstanding bacon and egg brekkie buns.

It’s tucked away in the backstreets of Mornington’s industrial estate, just a two-minute drive from the action of Main Street.

Once you’re back on the main drag, there are plenty of boutiques worth checking out if you’re shopping for gifts (or just for yourself). Herman, Zen Living and Aurelia Boutique offer laid-back fashion and homewares. And for a post-shopping treat – like pink lemonade scones or red velvet cupcakes – The Butcher’s Daughters Cakes is a go-to.

While you’re in the area, make sure to add

a coastline walk to your agenda. Or if you’re less keen on increasing your step count and more inter interested in an afternoon aperitif, take a leisurely stroll down the hill to The Rocks for a seaside spritz and freshly shucked oysters.

To round off the day, a picnic in the park with fish and chips or a pizza from DOC Gastronomia Italiana is a rite of passage among locals. To really push the boat out, top it off with gelato from Okay Lucy (pistachio is a crowd favourite) or a stint in the beer garden at the Royal Hotel, where you can watch the sun set across the bay.

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LUXURY Words by Richard Cornish & Maria Harris

Hawthorn 2 Berkeley Street $6.8 million-$7.3 million 5

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Expressions of interest: Close 5pm, December 12 Agent: Marshall White, Andrew Gibbons 0407 577 007 Scotch Hill, with grand houses on large blocks, is one of Hawthorn’s most exclusive residential enclaves. This singlelevel Victorian home, renovated from front to back with a swimming pool, is on a north-west-facing block of about 908 square metres. Well-proportioned rooms, formal and informal living, parquetry floors, and a stunning kitchen with Corian benchtops and Smeg appliances create a great family environment in a convenient location.

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Kew 5 Adeney Avenue $8.8 million-$9.6 million 5

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Expressions of interest: Close 1pm, December 12 Agent: RT Edgar, Richard Nowak 0418 383 774

Sale by set date: 5pm, December 12 Agent: Fredman, Joel Fredman 0413 487 837

Private auction: December 16 Agent: Kay & Burton, Sophie Su 0425 270 125

Behind a high brick fence is this solid, quiet home in a top South Yarra position. It has much mid-20th-century charm, with mullioned bay windows flooding the living room with light and the separate dining room opening out onto the west-facing slate patio and sunny garden. The location is exceptional: trams, Toorak Village, Chapel Street and Como Park are within walking distance. With a 22-metre frontage to Como Avenue, this property evokes understated grandeur.

Modern, beautiful and lush, this Brighton home was built by Melbourne-based Stonnington and the gardens designed by Paul Bangay. Downstairs, vast living spaces look out onto the pool, tennis court and Japanese-inspired water garden. The cook’s kitchen is complete with Miele appliances, induction stovetops and a butler’s pantry. Upstairs is a tranquil haven with four bedrooms and three en suites. With the qualities of a private resort, it is just a few blocks from the beach.

Heald Lawn is an exquisite home perched on a hill in a prime Kew position close to shops, schools and public transport.

Architect Harry Kemp designed it in 1913 for his own family, using the finest rare timbers to line the floors and walls, and build the staircase of this classic Queen Anne-style home.

This two-level home boasts carved fireplaces, a games room, a library and an impressive entrance hall, with an expansive lawn and mature trees in front and a tennis court out back.

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Camberwell 21 Russell Street $2.8 million-$3 million

Clearance Rate of 56%* Source: Domain Group

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Spacious, gracious and made over in classy-meets-cosy fashion, this single-level centenarian is a heart-warming home. From the wraparound verandah, enter to a dog-leg hall announcing a lounge, three bedrooms (including the main with en suite), bathroom, laundry and kitchen-diningliving area. The lounge has a fireplace and French doors to the verandah. The open-plan hub ups that with a fireplace in a timber feature wall and connection to a barbecue deck.

Dr Nicola Powell Chief of research & economics “Melbourne’s 2023 market … showed incredible resilience that defied high interest rates as a supply shortfall collided with rapid population growth, a strained construction sector and the tightest rental market on record.”

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$5.87 million Albert Park 102 Bridport Street Sold by Jellis Craig* *As reported on November 25, 2023

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Auction: 11.30am, December 9 Agent: Marshall White, Susan McGlashan 0417 554 224

Auction: Noon, December 9 Agent: Marshall White, Jason C. Swift 0417 055 702

The best period home to buy is one where someone else has done the hard yards, so you can just move in without having to lift a finger. This solid brick, two-storey c1920s home, with a broad verandah and cottage garden, is one of those. The interiors centre on the Caesarstone kitchen with 900-millimetre Smeg oven. There are several living zones, a north-west-facing garden and a pool.

The curvilinear island bench with fluted detailing in rose-hued travertine is a dramatic centrepiece setting the luxurious tone of this new family home by Mancini Made.

Metallics and warm timber finishes enhance appeal, while light-filled living leads to a pergola-covered deck and a rear access gate with a direct connection to the Concourse and Beaumaris’ beachside lifestyle.

Kew 6 Brazier Grove $3 million-$3.3 million 4

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Expressions of interest: Close noon, December 11 Agent: RT Edgar, Rachael Fabbro 0412 547 690 This contemporary pad aces the art of family living. There’s ample space, and the backyard evokes a boutique resort. Lines and angles ensure the facade is arresting. Presented with flair, the three-storey interior is bright and big on indoor-outdoor connection. Two living spaces link with a barbecue terrace. It also boasts a pool and a putting green.

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Auction: 11am, December 9 Agent: Jellis Craig, Kevin O’Brien 0447 008 000

Auction: 12.30pm, December 9 Agent: Marshall White, Kaine Lanyon 0411 875 478

This townhouse, metres from Brighton Beach station and the beach, offers three levels of accommodation crowned by a roof terrace. Designed by Wood Marsh, it’s a sleek, low-maintenance number that’s equipped to the nines, rich in timber detail and finished with modern dash.

Leadlight windows peep through the creeperendowed facade of this period abode. They belong to the main bedroom, which has a fireplace and en suite. Flow past bedrooms, a bathroom with Euro laundry and the openplan hub to the barbecue deck and potential off-street parking via a rear right-of-way.

The classic Victorian charm of this terrace, with a 6.55-metre bay-window facade, combined with the contemporary enhancement within, makes Valin a compelling turnkey option, especially given its position opposite Albert Park Lake and parklands. Close to the village, transport and beach.

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Contact Alex Schiavo Jamie Driver Shantelle Francis

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Ground Floor North Facing Oasis with Enormous Terrace Gardens Elevating Bayside contemporary luxe to unrivalled heights, with house sized propositions, this three-bedroom north-facing, ground-floor residence is exclusively designed by award winning architect BayleyWard to create an instinctive, wellness-oriented living experience inspired by nature's most harmonious elements, in the heart of Brighton's celebrated lifestyle precinct, just steps to Church Street.

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7-9 Bateman Street, Hampton

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Contact Robin Parker 0409 336 282

Viewing Wednesday 2.30-3pm & Saturday 10-10.30am

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FOR PRIVATE SALE $1,400,000-$1,540,000 Inspect by private appointment

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WHERE THE BUSH MEETS SEA VIEWS This private and quiet property is a ready-to-go retreat or Airbnb rental with the ability to extend. Your deck looks over Port Phillip Bay, with an abundance of birdlife. This property is only 5min drive to Mt Martha Village with all the amenities and conveniences you need.

SAM DANCKERT 0432 444 040

• Expansive living and dining room • Enormous terrace perfect for entertaining • Well-appointed kitchen with Smeg cooking • Two bedrooms, two bathrooms (main ensuite) • Walking distance to Elwood Village and beach

Auction Sat 16 Dec 10.00am View See website for details

John Manning | 0416 101 201 Will Johnson | 0449 131 648 Jenny Dwyer | 0418 528 988

DANCKERT REAL ESTATE 9 Howey Road, Mt Martha VIC 3934 Agent: Sam Danckert 0432 444 040

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