High Street Memories

Julia Busuttil Nishimura discovered the joys of Lygon Street, Carlton while studying Italian at Melbourne University in 2007. The celebrated Melbourne-based cook and author would stroll the strip during her breaks, exploring its Italian cafes …

One of Australia’s leading bridal gown designers, Steven Khalil, has dressed red carpet VIPs including JLo and Kylie Jenner, but he has always had a soft-spot for the neighbourhood that gave him his start – …

When chef, restaurateur Guy Turland left his hometown of Bowral in the Southern Highlands of NSW to relocate to Sydney for an apprenticeship at Est aged 17, he moved to Hall Street, Bondi. It would …

From high school teacher to MasterChef Australia alumni, Alice Zaslavsky – also known as Alice in Frames – cultivated her culinary curiosity on North Road, Ormond in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs. “I spent a lot of …

When radio personality Jo Stanley left her northern home suburb of Yallambie for the southern suburbs as a university student, Glenhuntly Road Elsternwick became her regular shopping strip. It was the early ’90s, she was …

Alice Bennett, best known for her cake empire Miss Trixie Drinks Tea, spent her MLC high school years on Glenferrie Road Hawthorn; a strip many students in the leafy east would frequent once the bell …

Chyka Keebaugh began discovering the artisan delights of High Street, Armadale when she was in her early twenties in the ’90s. The Australian business woman, author and media personality carved a niche as a homemaker …

The Design Files founder and editor Lucy Feagins has been writing about home and interior design for 16 years, inspired by modern architecture, design and art. Now she brings the printed version of her digital …

Auburn Village holds a special place for interior designer and The Block judge Shaynna Blaze – first visiting the area as a child when traveling to Melbourne to see her paternal grandmother who lived in Hawthorn, …