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Typical. Just as the world peaked Paul Levi, the man who had no small part in bringing us the slightly dubious word “Foodie”, launches the Gastrosexual, a man with more dazzling kitchen tools than penile length.
I’ve never had much truck for foodies (although a few of you are okay). I’ve met too many who know [...]
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Dissident Chef wrote:Where are you Tomato? Are you flying the flag yet?
DC
He means: I am running an underground restaurant?
Regulars will remember last winter and spring the hype over an alleged Melbourne underground restaurant. While a software updated meant the content of the post was lost, the short of it is that Zingara Cucina was somewhere [...]
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Wagyu really is wonderful. It is also expensive and one of the most mistreated meats in Australia.
Possibly the worst way to eat it is an a hunking great steak; possibly the best way is to prepare it with care in small quantities, even as sushi.
Charles Greenfield, the owner and chef at Jamon Sushi in South [...]
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To the left are five slices of the jamón ibérico de bellota. They weighed 88 grams and cost a shocking $41.80.To the right are five much larger slices of San Daniele ham from Italy weighing 142 grams and costing $17.04.One sunny afternoon, before I joined Febfast, we sat on the front veranda surveying the 4 [...]
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Acclaimed local chef George Biron has started a blog for his soon to be reopened Sunnybrae restaurant, vegetable gardens and cooking school. The best thing about the blog is the enticing content and pictures and I know I want to be there when he next presses his olives.
What George has understood is that [...]
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Lucky Jay Rayner from The Guardian has been there and some of the best restaurants aren’t even in the new Michelin restaurant guide which sort of rates it 4 times better than Paris.
Just click here and enjoy. It reminds me of the whole Jamon or Tempura Hajime experience.
Bloggers banquet round-up coming soon – just as [...]
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I mentioned in my column today that Jamon (3 Murphy St, South Yarra +61 9804 5710) was between Tuesday 8 and Saturday 12 may holding one of it’s Wagyu weeks with lunch at $120 and supper $250.
Last year I wrote about one of the lunches for the Australian’s Travel & indulgence section. You can find [...]
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Coming soon: Wagyu fillet…
Something has changed in the dynamics of food blogging in Melbourne. I started this blog in July 2005, began to find my feet the following September and now, on the day of my 400th entry, I have a better idea of why people visit.
There are two ways people find this blog, through [...]
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Leave, if you don’t worship fish, the squid overlord, other cephalopods, bivalves or
crustaceans.
Jamon (3 Murphy St, South Yarra, Vic 3141 +61 3 9804 5710) is an oasis in a gastronomic desert aka South Yarra. :–)
Welcome to the personal kitchen of masterchef Charles Greenfield, who spent 16 years in Japan. With only 14 seats, he is [...]
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