Receta Nine Places to Eat and Drink in Melbourne

1. Gazi

Gazi is hot right now. Everyone I talked to told me had to go, so I did, even though there’s nothing more likely to put me off a restaurant than someone saying that. When I arrived, I swear half of Melbourne was inside (reason to avoid ‘you have to go’ restaurants No.1). It was loud. The tables are also really close together but I was eating alone, and this made it easy to start chatting to the people next door – a personal trainer and his client. The woman (the client) had it bad for him (the personal trainer), but he had no idea. They were the kind of people who were fun to be around for the hour I was there but would drive me up the wall for any extended length of time; both very loud, brash and attention seeking, they…