Help me buy a gift in Melbourne over the internet
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Melbourne MeFites â help me find a gift I can buy online for a Melbourne-dwelling friend. A friend of mine is going to give me a pretty good computer she no longer uses, and wonât take any money for it. Itâs a very generous gift, and Iâd like to get her something to say thanks. She lives in Australia, I live in Scotland, so I want to buy something online (weâll meet for a few hours on Saturday as sheâs passing through the UK, hence the laptop handover). Iâm looking for something, probably value up to about AUD200, though thatâs pretty flexible. i.e. itâs not going to be near the value of the computer, but generous enough to be a real treat for her, not just a small token. Sheâs just moved to Melbourne (from New Zealand, though sheâs originally a Falkland Islander) to be with her fiance, so top candidate at the moment is restaurant vouchers for the two of them to have a nice meal with wine. (I wondered about http://www.bluestonerestaurantbar.com.au, not least because itâs in a converted woolshed, which is a kind of nice Falklands link â thatâs a place with a lot of woolsheds). Other activities, spa-type suggestions would also be great. Useful info: she's: mid-30s, pretty stylish, loves shopping for clothes and jewellery, still getting to know and explore Melbourne.
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Answer:
http://www.longrain.com/shop_melbourne.htm - fabulous Thai restaurant with amazing cocktails and more expensive than most people (I know) will tolerate for a regular night out (especially with the cocktails!). Having said that, $200 would buy a very fine meal with a good number of cocktails for two people and any change left over could be used to just visit the bar sometime. The food at this place is absolutely delicious.
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Other answers
do you whereabouts in melbourne your friend is living? it's a big place
compound eye
You could get her a Visa gift card - then she can have fun shopping for whatever it is that she's after. Some options are available http://www.visa-asia.com/ap/au/cardholders/cardsservices/visa_prepaid.shtml.
msbutah
You could treat her to a http://www.armadalemassage.com.au/index.php/armadalemassage/treat_friend. From our very own goshling.
special-k
How about a http://www.melbournecentral.com.au/content.aspx?urlkey=gift_cardsshe can soend in http://www.melbournecentral.com.au/storelist.aspx?urlkey=store_directory at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Central_Shopping_Centre? Or a http://www.cinemanova.com.au/gift.html for ten cinema tickets at http://www.cinemanova.com.au/ (one of Melbourne's best arthouse cinemas) on Lygon Street?
hot soup girl
I don't have any particular suggestion, but if you need legs on the ground to go and do something ror you, l;et me know. I'm in the city 3-4 times a week.
tim_in_oz
I second hot soup girl's recommendation that you buy her a Melbourne Central gift card. If your friend can't spend a couple of hundred bucks there and come away quite pleased and thankful, then she'll never be happy!
turgid dahlia
you could combine dinner at http://wabisabi.net.au/ with a present she could pick up a bit further down the same street from http://www.incube8r.com.au/: which is a little shop in fitzroy where local artists and designers rent a shelf to sell their stuff.
compound eye
Bluestone is quite nice but longrain, as suggested, is definitively a cut above- excellent reputation for good food. Perhaps you could narrow down a cuisine, if restaurants are the way to go? Also, Aesop is a lovely brand of cosmetics/body care products that operates locally and, I'm fairly confident, online. And it's down the road from wabi sabi!
jojobobo
yes jojobobo's suggestion of aesop products is a good one, and very melbourne. also i should have specified wabi sabi salon is on the same street, and around the corner from aesop. wabi sabi garden is in another part of the city.
compound eye
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