If you have a couple of leisurely hours to spare on a weekend or weekday with a few close friends and a big appetite, then dine at Burnt Orange in Sydney’s lucrative and beautiful suburb of Mosman. I say ‘a few hours’ as you will need time to appreciate their delicious homemade style food, which…
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Cuckoo Callay: Don’t Go Bacon My Heart
When you hear Bacon Festival at Cuckoo Callay, you’d be foolish to think it’s anything like the traditional ‘bacon and eggs’. Dining at Cuckoo Callay is like a dream, a kookie one where chocolate coated bourbon bacon on waffles with ice cream is served. You heard me right. Ya Bacon My Crazy! With a kookie…
BahBQ Brazilian Grill | Crows Nest
I went to BahBQ Brazilian Grill for dinner last night. So I found out about BahBQ – Brazilian Grill located in Crows Nest, in Sydney’s Lower North Shore from a young lady who is Brazilian and knows Latin American cuisine well. The food, Cristiane told me, reminds her of how it was back home in…
The Grace Hotel Chinese Lunch Menu
One of my favourite hotels and one of Sydney’s most prominent hotels with Neo-Gothic architecture with contrasting Art-Deco interiors The Grace Hotel on York Street, Sydney is hosting a new menu for a limited time only in celebration of Chinese New Year. From now to the 27 February, you can feast on their Chinese Lunch Menu. What…
Where to go to get the freshest Yum Cha food: Crown Dragon Kogarah
With Chinese New Year around the corner, and the time of year when I check my Chinese horoscope for the year ahead for a bit of fun, where is the best place in Sydney to have Yum Cha? The Crown Dragon in Kogarah has the name sake of my Chinese horoscope… apparently an auspicious animal…
Chinese Horoscopes for 2015
For a bit of year fun, I like to look up my Chinese Horoscope every Lunar Year to see what lies ahead. What does 2015 have in store for you? #1 Yearly 2015 Rat Horoscope The 2015 Rat horoscope predicts that overall this will be a good year. Do not expect immediate success. But with…
Intercontinental Sydney Double Bay Stockroom
A noticeable trend is happening in Sydney. No longer are hotel restaurants mere afterthoughts and as places for guests to dine because they prefer the proximity of a hotel bar or restaurant to their beds. New fine quality establishments contained within a hotel are capable of standing on their own. These establishments have their own…
Creating Connections: Food Photography with Sydney Chefs
“Dario meet Kumar from Aki’s Restaurant.” “Kumar meet Dario from Milano Torino.” I spent the half day with Kumar and Dario in a private food photography session run by Chef, Owner and keen Food Photographer, Dario Milano at his restaurant, Milano Torino in Rosebery. Before today’s meeting Dario and Kumar had not met before and I was only too…
Penguins of Madagascar | Film Review
I went to see Penguins of Madagascar 3D at the IMAX today and you will leave the film with a smile. This animated film is the spinoff of the ‘Madagascar’ trilogy centred around four wisecracking penguins and delivers a fast paced humour to delight not only children but also adults…yes there were a group of…
Chuck Close: Print, Process and Collaboration Exhibition
The Chuck Close ‘Print, Process and Collaboration’ exhibition now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is incredible and a real treat for Sydneysiders. Chuck Close is an artist based in New York who is noted for his highly inventive techniques used to depict the human face, best known for his large scale photo…