Category: Melbourne

The long lunch is a fundamentally different category of eating from dinner. Dinner is a performance with a curtain time and a role for candlelight; it arrives with a social script and a designated end. The long lunch has no curtain — it ends when the conver…

There is a version of the Yarra Valley that belongs to the weekend tripper: the cellar door converted from an old dairy, the cheese platter, the pinot that tastes reliably of cherries and forest floor. That version has its place. But there is another Yarra…