With a bubbly personality and a keen eye for luxurious design, interior designer Rosie Morley is the perfect person to share her favourite hot spots as part of the Habitus Tastemaker’s Guide.
A principal at leading Australian architecture and design firm Fender Katsalidis, Morley works across a range of projects, bringing her extensive experience to everything she touches.
Once calling London home, Morley now lives in Trentham, a few hours out of Melbourne – a thriving regional community with plenty of great things to see and do.
THE LOCAL LIST
Coffee shop
Trentham General – the coffee is consistently excellent, high-quality food farmed from the region, and the team are always up for a chat. Set in a relaxed and unpretentious interior which works well with such an unconventional layout (repurposed from the old Bank of Australia).
Trentham General
trenthamgeneral.com.au
37A High St, Trentham VIC 3458
Restaurant
Split between Midnight Starling (Kyneton) and Kuzu Izakaya (Woodend). Midnight Starling always serves up rich, high-calibre dishes and the environment is straight out of a classic French bistrotheque. Kuzu is inconspicuously tucked away, the food is clean and uncomplicated and modern.
Midnight Starling
midnightstarling.com.au
60 Piper Street, Kyneton
Kuzu Izakaya
kuzu.com.au
42D Anslow St, Woodend, VIC 3442
Spot for a drink
Botanik (Kyneton)
Botanik
botanik.com.au
24 Piper St, Kyneton VIC 3444
Places to shop
Woodend General, Think Alike, Stockroom, Love Spell, Squishy Minnie plus the monthly farmers markets in each of the towns.
Woodend General
woodendgeneral.com.au
84/88 High St, Woodend VIC 3442
Where to stay
Daylesford, Hepburn Springs, Castlemaine, Kyneton, Mt Macedon.
Favourite cultural outing
Drinking and shopping at Botanik followed by art perusal at the Stockroom.
Stockroom
stockroomspace.com
98 Piper St, Kyneton VIC 3444
THE GLOBAL LIST
Best coffee
Climpson and Sons, Allpress Espresso, Bar Italia (all London)
Bar Italia
baritaliasoho.co.uk
22 Frith St, London W1D 4RF, United Kingdom
Most memorable bar
Ceresio7 (Milan) and Nightjar in Shoreditch (London)
Ceresio7 Milano
ceresio7.com/en/milano
Via Ceresio, 7, 20154 Milano MI, Italy
The restaurant everyone must try
Bistrotheque, Café Cecilia, The NoMad (all London)
Bistrotheque
bistrotheque.com
23-27 Wadeson St, London E2 9DR
Favourite shops
Merci (Paris), Joyce (Hong Kong), Rossana Orlandi (Milan), Dover St Market (London)
Merci
merci-merci.com
111 Bd Beaumarchais, 75003 Paris, France
The best hotel
Edition (London), Hotel Amour (Paris), Rosewood (London), Town Hall Hotel (London), The PuLi (Shanghai)
Hotel Amour
hotelamourparis.fr/en
8 Rue de Navarin, 75009 Paris, France
Must-see gallery
Tate Modern (London) and Guggenheim (New York)
Guggenheim
guggenheim.org
1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128, United States
Favourite city in the world…
London
Where’s next on your bucket list and what do you plan to do there…
Tokyo, to immerse in the cherry blossom season!
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