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Review: Standard bar snacks and 'very tasty' donuts in Dessous

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Address 164 Flinders Ln Melbourne , VIC 3000 View map Opening hours Dinner Tuesday-Saturday Feature Bar, Licensed, Accepts reservations, Events Price Expensive (electricity over $40) Payment eftpos, Visa, Mastercard Phone 03 9070 4939 It’s an era of fun, umami, taking the most decadent ingredients you can find, tossing lots of fish sauce and fresh herbs in it, and then adding crunchy and flaky and a little more fun to the mix. This is the era of cream sauces, bright pickles, food made especially to be enjoyed with booze, orgies of sex on a plate. Let’s take a donut and fill it with crab; let’s cook the crap out of our vegetables so they melt and sizzle and then drizzle them with three kinds of milk. Let’s not hold back. This is the manifesto that comes to mind when dining at Dessous – Mulberry Group’s Flinders Lane venue – a plac

Mercedes-AMG raises the bar for electric excellence

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As for its appearance, it’s surprising how small it looks with no other vehicles in sight. The EQS’s rounded body shape – aerodynamically sculpted at the front to increase reach – visually reduces it. However, in a standard parking lot, its enormous size is quite obvious. Polarizing style. For those who hate it, there is bad news to come: its shape will be replicated in the smaller Benz EV sedan. Personally, I find it attractive and distinctive, except for the rear view, which is a bit bland. By the way, there is a hole in the tail, and a large rear trunk area. However, the nose is stuffed with cooling and electrical components, and remains closed except during servicing. It is very fast and has five driving modes, selectable on the fly via buttons mounted on the steering wheel. The spacious interior is spaceship-like, not club-like (no wood panels for starters), with a large 1.4-meter wide panel on the dashboard, joined by three separate OLED touchscreens behind a single she