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3 minute noodles and kung fu tea

October 21, 2008

The latest addition to the Crown Casino food theme park is Sho, a Chinese restaurant on the casino floor. It’s $8 million fitout includes giant abacus screens. Plus there is plenty of Disney-style Chinese entertainement.
There is the authentic tea ceremony (which I missed videoing) followed by Kung Fu tea in which a giant [...]

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First night at Bistro Guillaume, a restaurant by any other name

April 1, 2008

The Gordon Ramsay deal is still in it’s early days. At least that’s the Crown Casino corporate line. For the moment Bistro Guillaume is the final jewel in the crown up with (in reverse order of opening) Giuseppe, Arnaldo & Sons, Nobu and Rockpool Bar and Grill.
Inevitably Ramsay stomping into Melbourne means that somebody, probably [...]

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It’s Giuseppe, Arnaldo & Sons and not Damien Hirst

March 25, 2008

There are no sharks in bondage kit. But there is something very Damien Hirst about the salumi (that’s Italian for cured meat) counter. It’s about chopped-up (and cured) bits of animal in a display case. Perhaps it is the backdrop of the curtain drawn across one of the five tiled dining areas in Giuseppe, Arnaldo [...]

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