rochford wines

When 1405 and I got married almost two years ago we felt kind of like kids pretending to be grown up's. We were about a year out of uni and the first of our friends to do it. Two years on, our circle of friends are catching up to us in the wedding phase - I know some people hate this kind of thing but we are really genuinely enjoying it, every reception is like a reunion.

We attended our friends J and D's at Rochford Wines and were super impressed by the food, venue and of course our happy friends.

CONGRATULATIONS J+D!

MELT pizza

We have been dormant for a while, been travelling (like Holly Golightly). So imagine our surprise when we were contacted by owner Dan Gold to eat at and review his pizza bar MELT off Chapel in Windsor. We love pizza, how can not eat?!

The area is aplumb with restaurants and trendy cafes, Lucky Coq jostling with Borsch Vodka and Tears for young and beautiful people and Sauce'd is down the road making pasta cool and young again.

But MELT is different. Clean, fresh, authentic in it's earnesty. Charming Dan and his beautiful wife Elise head this joint built on the idea of a healthy pizza. Not in a cardboard kind of way, like the way that your perfect friend who does yoga every day, has an amazing job and cooks all of her own meal would do. In other words, you want it.

The bases are seriously scrummy (chewy, made with no oil, fat or sugar) and you can customize to your heart's content. You can also have gluten-free bases for an extra $4.The ingredients are all local and free range, which makes the prices ($12-17 per pizza) really quite competitive. 

Dan plays old school hip hop and genuinely cares about his customers and his food. Elise brought us bird's eye chillies in olive oil, amazing!

And the PIZZAAAAAA. 

Top: salami, red onion, mozzarella and pesto.
Bottom: Prawn, fresh chilli, garlic, capers, rocket.

If we lived in the area we would come here again and again.

Dan, I look forward to deliveries to Hawthorn and thanks for a great night!

MELT Pizza
171 Chapel Street
Windsor
1300 116 358