I believe we all have our favorites – I know I do – and this shows in the list of the top restaurants in Victoria from Gourmet Traveller. You can check out the full list here
A big congratulations to Dan Hunter and team at The Royal Mail Hotel who were awarded best regional restaurant.
Otherwise there [...]
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Creamy porridge
1 measure of cheap rolled oats
1 measure milk
1 measure and a bit more water
A substantial pinch of salt
Cook slowly, for an hour or so. Serve with drizzled honey and milk
There is one secret I want to share with you. It’s the reason I’m not the size of Falstaff – or if [...]
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Packed into the new recital centre in Melbourne were a star-studded audience to hear Neil Perry, Heston Blumenthal and Thomas Keller discuss “A new approach to cooking”. Sydney chef Tony Bilson was taking notes sitting next to the legendary Cheong Liew. I think I spotted Karen Martini and Martin Boetz. The audience was also packed [...]
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Q I booked Tempura Hajime for dinner in April.
My husband and I enjoy Japanese. However, we went to Yu-u a few weeks ago and were completely and utterly underwhelmed. I think I read somewhere on your site about it having the same owners or something ? Nice dining setting but very uninspiring food.
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The dessert that made me a plate licker.
I’m not the only one worrying about the recession. But I’m probably the only one in Cutler & Co thinking about it. The reincarnation of chef Andrew McConnell’s Three, One, Two at the top end of Gertrude St is packed. So packed, McConnell later tells me that it [...]
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I instantly like it: Ichi Ni (03 9534 1212), the Izakaya, a Japanese style tavern/pub with food, which opened last night next to The Espy by the owners of The Espy Vince Sofo and Paul Adamo. It rocks. Yes, there were some blips in service on the first night. But we weren’t even aware that our [...]
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Ferran Adria arrives in Australia on Thursday next week for his sold-out audience on the 19th at Hamer Hall (put on by the good folk at Melbourne Food and Wine). He’s here with his translator to spruik his book “A day at El Bulli” and I’m lucky enough to have 30 minutes with him on [...]
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inally we have a winner for the food blog survey sponsored by Kitchenware Direct, picked from the 165 entries. In social media tradition I asked on twitter for a random number. I got three, added them up and divided coming up with Andrew Dean from Windsor who was chuffed to have won the Shun knife [...]
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If you’ve been missing the food of feisty Scottish chef Ray Capaldi since Fenix closed you should visit the NGV for lunch. He’s not actually in the kitchens which are run by Peter Rowland Catering. But the menu is his design and he’s consulting to the company and helping them deliver great tasting good looking [...]
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Slow-cooked black lip abalone, a Coffin Bay oyster in a Peking Duck consommé
The staff, a 25-strong brigade of chefs alone in the summer, at The Point may well ask ‘what the point is’. Snubbed by the Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide and starved of a chef’s hat for two years in the Good Food Guide, it [...]
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The real unsung dish of the year: Attica’s terroir, somewhere between sweet and savoury. Freeze dried raspberries, blackberries and blueberries, traditionally dried raspberries, blueberries and cranberries,
dehydrated grated beetroot (semi-cooked), cake crumbs made from organic
local almonds and beetroot, a sorbet of fromage frais, pieces of golden
kiwifruit dressed with lime, a jelly made from avocado oil, a [...]
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First off I was late, dawdling this rainy morning. I missed the briefing and my lab coat was too small even for a ten year old child. On a bright note though, the hairnet was just perfect and I was wearing the correct all-terrain underwear and cashmere socks. I’m at the 2008 judging for the [...]
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Have you heard the one about the waitress stuck in the dumb waiter at Nobu? A few calls to the fire brigade and Crown Security later, and several thousand dollars, and she was out. The staff I’m told didn’t realise that if anything moves in the dumb waiter it stops and must be overridden [...]
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Where is he? The Gobbler and his previous blog The Garrulous Gourmet have been taken down. All that content gone. It’s funny how bloggers come and go. Some people fade away and The Gobbler has gone out with a bang simply because he has other priorities in life. It’s a brave thing to give up [...]
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