Comments on: Sydney food festival better than Melbourne?

By: groupo style

groupo style — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:49:51 +0000

Hi, I think Sydney wins more visitors in food festival due to its mouth watering dishes.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:50:33 +0000

Ben, Corrected.
Interestingly Sydney didn’t address wine so Melbourne wins there.

And outside the main weekend people felt it was a bit all over the place.

As with the reasons for that error, I need to find more time to post and shall but more about the individual events and dinners.

By: Burgundyben

Burgundyben — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:37:54 +0000

I was not aware Melbourne had an International Food Festival.

Seems to me it is known as the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, and it will be interesting to see where the rest of the posts take this discussion.

By: Friendly Savage

Friendly Savage — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:23:44 +0000

Hi Ed
Nice post.
I have just one question – when you said “I went to both on freebies, although sponsored by NSW Tourism this trip was $$$$$$$$$$.”
Did you mean that it was more expensive for you to go to the SIFF than to Melbourne?
Cheers FS

By: penny aka jeroxie

penny aka jeroxie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:45:31 +0000

It is amazing how the chinese only uses the cleaver for everything. He has fantastic knife skills. And you have reminded to get the book Fuchsia Dunlop.

By: Thermomixer

Thermomixer — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:11:22 +0000

She’s not only good with Sichuan, but the revolutionary Cookbook has lots of Hunan dishes amongst others. She is good. Did you score a seat at the Claude’s dinner? Had heard about the dinner back in February, but Mrs T had to celebrate her big birthday down in Melbourne that weekend! Also missed out on Sergi Arola with Brent Savage .

The Japanese have been a big influence on the Spaniards too.

The SIFF certainly did have a great line up for their inaugural festival – hope it continues.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:20:44 +0000

You can’t have Fuchsia, she’s mine.

(Her recipes work beautifully, too)

By: Matt C

Matt C — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:16:37 +0000

On a slightly-related note, I’m a bit disappointed with the Melbourne 2010 lineup. I got very excited after David Chang and the vauge ‘America’ theme was announced, hoping for a Thomas Keller or Grant Achatz. David Kinch would be fascinating, but not enough to get me over there from Perth I’m afraid.