Did you know it was actually illegal to enter the ocean during daylight hours in Australia during the early 1900s? This law was challenged and the law was repealed but as more and more people entered the waters, more people drowned due to the inability to handle the surf conditions. Volunteers came to the rescue…
Taste
The Wintergarden Bloggers’ Lunch
I love working in Sydney CBD. Being passionate about food and dining venues ensures you are very connected with Sydney, not only with what’s happening, what’s coming up, the new venues but the people you meet who you do not ordinarily encounter every day in my day job. A lunch break on a weekday is…
Food Photography from the Bowery Lane Menu
I was having lunch with a work colleague the other day at one of the establishments in the new Wintergarden complex, Bowery Lane on 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney and I introduced her to the people there and somewhat surprised she asked “How come you know the restaurant people so well?” Then it struck me, wouldn’t…
Bowery Lane Launch Party | Sydney
Sydney locals were out in full force on 1 O’Connell Street in Sydney CBD last Thursday evening as Bowery Lane hosted its official launch party rolling out the red carpet in style. With a yellow New York cab pulled out in front and guests mobbed by paparazzi, Bowery Lane smoothly provided an evening of New York…
Burnt Orange | Mosman
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…
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…