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Restaurants
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23 records and collections
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Balzac
Miscellaneous collection of items relating to Balzac restaurant. The restaurant operated between 1956 and 2001. It was started by George and Mirka Mora who sold it about five years later to John and Maria Kornyei. In the late 1970s it was sold to Leon Massoni. In 1958 it was gran...
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Bar-diner soaked in history
Review of Tippler & Co, a bar and restaurant occupying the site of the former Cafe Balzac started by George and Mirka Mora in 1956.
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Café Culture
Newspaper article and review about George Street Café. Photo. Herald Sun, 10 June 2003, Citystyle,.
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Che Fortuna
The author, Dominic Bonadio, describes his book as follows: I have owned restaurants in East Melbourne since 1981 so most of my working life has been in the area. The name of the book is Che Fortuna and is about my grandfather who went to US in 1900 to my father being a POW in Al...
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East Melbourne, Albert Street 364, 366
Two houses: the two-storey one on the left was built in 1909 in the garden of the three storey house on the right which was built in 1873. For over fifty years they were together known as Wellpark, a boarding house or guest house. Later one became a restaurant and the other was c...
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East Melbourne, Albert Street 366
The house is built to the footpath, unusual for its time and in the East Melbourne area. It is a single fronted two storey house of red brick with cement mouldings, now painted. A crenelated parapet hides a gabled roof and a rough cast cement frieze runs below the cornice. The wi...
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Eastside Brasserie
Review of Eastside Brasserie in Tribeca.
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George Mora's application for liquor licence
File of correspondence pertaining to application for liquor licence for Balzac Restaurant. Sample menus. Plans for alterations necessary for licence. 1955-1959. Includes also Victorian Civic Association's draft submission for Improvement of the Liquor Licensing Laws.
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George Street Café
Newspaper clipping about residents' opposition to application by the George Street Café for a liquor licence. The owner, Taras Maciburko has put the proposal on hold. Photo. Melbourne Leader 13 Sept. 2004.
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George Street Café. Dispute over extension of liquor licence
Documents relating to dispute over application to obtain a liquor licence and extend trading hours. Coordinated 2002, 2004.
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Hello to El Cubano
Review of Hard Pressed, a cafe specialising in Cuban sandwiches and boutique coffee.
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Kiosk Refreshment Rooms c.1910
Postcard. Colour print. Printed in Melbourne by F.W.N. & Co. (Francis Wilson Niven) The image shows the old kiosk in the Fitzroy Gardens as it appeared when first built. A history of the building can be found using the link below. It was demolished in 1963 to make way for the cur...
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Memories of Bims Restaurant
Wendy Pomroy's memories of Bims and Vagn Ove Gunness and their restaurant, Bims at 366 Albert Street. Previously the pair had taken over Mirka, Mirka Mora's restaurant in the city, which they renamed Danish Delight.
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Mirka Mora mural rediscovered
Newspaper clipping about the rediscovery of a mural on the wall of the old Balzac Restaurant, now Tippler & Co., at 58 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. Balzac Restaurant was established in 1956 by Georges Mora and his wife, artist Mirka Mora, who painted the mural.
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Mirka Mora turns 83
Short Newspaper clipping reporting on Mirka Mora's 83rd birthday. Mirka Mora is an East Melbourne identity as the founder, with her husband George, of the Balzac Restaurant, Wellington Parade.
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New Boundary Hotel Newsletter
In 1991 chef Lino d'Angelo leased the dining room of the New Boundary Hotel to run his Restaurant Menage. This newsletter lists the various activities planned at the restaurant including music nights and wine appreciation courses. The newsletter also reproduces an article by Clau...
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New apartments at 28 Powlett Street
Newspaper clipping describing the new apartments at 28 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. The building was designed by Glenn & Powell for ICON. Matt Stribely, who runs the cafe, Square and Compass, promotes East Melbourne as a good place to live.
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Ornamental Standard Saved From Scrap Heap
Newspaper article on the removal of cast iron standards from old bridge in Footscray prior to its demolition. One of the standards was bought by George Mora to convert to a fountain at his restaurant, Balzac in East Melbourne. A drawing of this became the restaurant's logo. The M...
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Roccella
Newpaper clipping with brief report on a new restaurant to be established on the ground floor of the apartment building known as 150 Clarendon Street, a conversion of the old Mercy Maternity Hospital. The restaurant will be called Roccella and run by Est Italia, a group made up o...
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Tasma Terrace
Leaflet produced by the National Trust outlining the history of Tasma Terrace.
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The Pavilion, Fitzroy Gardens
Souvenir postcard of the new kiosk in the Fitzroy Gardens built in 1964. It replacecd the old kiosk, built in 1907, which was considered dark and old-fashioned. It has now been remodelled to become the high-end Yiaga Restaurant. In the foreground is the Miniature Tudor Village gi...
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Trust café
Newspaper clipping about the opening of controversial new café in the basement level of Tasma Terrace, corner of St. Andrew's Place and Parliament Place. Local residents objected to it being open until 11 p.m. Also brochure with photos.
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Warm bread and family fare
Newspaper article and review about Zio's. Photo. Age, 24 April 2003, A3, p. 10.