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Step off Station Pier, and you’ll encounter another piece of Port Melbourne history.
The jaunty turquoise-blue frontage of D’Lish Fish has been a Beach Street fixture since former AFL footballer and television fisherman Rex Hunt opened it in 1998, and current owner Inesa Bekoli takes her custodianship of one of the city’s best fish and chippers seriously.
“We try to keep everything as he had it all those years ago,” says Bekoli, who runs the shop with her chef husband and a partner. “So, everything is fresh not frozen, we cook to order, even when there is a queue.”
Plenty of people waiting restively for their fried flake and minimum chips will retreat across the road to eat on the beach. Bekoli has added to the attraction with house-churned ice-cream and a liquor license for anyone who wants to grab a table and watch the Port Melbourne community do its thing.
It’s a diverse bunch. The Victorian cottages have mostly been renovated, but the streets of the ’burb aren’t populated wall-to-wall by the one-percenters. Wander along the Bay Street shopping strip, and you’ll see it’s a place acquainted with the good life, but still remembers where it came from.
With Justin Holod of Marshall White
Station Street Trading Co. on the corner of Raglan and Station Street is my go-to most mornings for excellent coffee, great food and a friendly atmosphere. Heart Bakes on the corner of Bridge and Ross Streets is just as good in my opinion; the coffee and selection of pastries make it very difficult not to go back to.
For fitness enthusiasts and people living a very active lifestyle with a focus on health, wellbeing and recovery, My Recovery Lounge at the top end of Bay Street has everything from cold plunges to infrared saunas to massage therapy and IV treatments.
113/85 Rouse Street, Port Melbourne VIC 3207
Perched above the Port Melbourne action on the 11th floor of the acclaimed Nonda Katsilidis-designed HM@S building, this luxe home in the sky has supersized proportions. An artistic eye is evident in the curving Venetian-plastered walls, arched windows framing panoramic views of the ocean and city skyline, and the uniform use of pale marble from the kitchen to the media joinery and deluxe bathroom.
169 Clark Street, Port Melbourne VIC 3207
Summers can be spent outside at this lavish executive home, on the rooftop terrace with city views, a fireplace and a plumbed-in barbecue kitchen or in the private courtyard, which catches the northern light and offers more al fresco cooking options. A wine display cellar enhances a slick Fisher & Paykel kitchen, while a separate studio or bedroom above the garage has its own en suite.
Larissa Dubecki Larissa Dubecki has been a journalist for 20 years, in a career spanning news writing and specialist food reviewing, including seven years as The Age's chief restaurant critic. Her work has appeared in publications including Guardian Australia, Gourmet Traveller, Time Out and The Australian. She is the author of the 2015 memoir Prick With a Fork.
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