Queen Victoria Market

Sep 13, 2011 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments

Sausage sizzle or popup charcuterie?

Photo Credit: Wooster Collective I worked in a food truck for a few months in 1996. The truck parked at automotive parts swap meets and out the front of the cow pavilion at the Royal Easter Show. I cooked hundreds of frozen hamburgers, industrial soy-beef patties defrosting on the grill

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May 10, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments

The sultry sounds of Queen Victoria Market

I don’t shop for food outside of my ‘hood all too often these days and so a recent visit back to the Queen Victoria Market made me realise the distinctiveness of the aural landscape of Melbourne’s markets. Markets in Footscray are dominated by vendors spruiking their specials in Vietnamese, generally

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May 18, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 11 Comments

Queen Victoria Market Borek

Having Austin around did act as a handy reminder of the unparalleled diversity of food in Melbourne. For example, I live in a suburb dominated by two of the most disparate of the world’s cuisines: Ethiopian and Vietnamese. As I wander about a market named after an English monarch, I

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Apr 05, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

F-Shed at Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne

At 8:30am this morning, in the moment before the sun rose above the cloud cover

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