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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Now I know how ignorant I was thanks to the apertivo that Mauro Marcucci sent us out at Bond Street Cafe and Wine Bar. Served in a champagne flute Aperol, prosecco, a slice of orange and a skewered olive, it was the delicacy and balance of the drink that impressed me. I know better [...]
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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 am writing to you from agricultural heartland (Gippsland, that is) and hoping you might be able to give a coupla tips for surviving a visit to Washington DC. Naturally, the idea of eating in America inspires a degree of terror in me and I thought just maybe you might have a few clues? [...]
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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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The best and best value food in Surfers Paradise has long been the tiny Korean and Japanese joints hidden in its low-rent 1970s shopping malls. But it is also worth escaping the main tourist drags for Chevron Island where soba Master Yoshinory Shibazaki & his wife Keiko are bringing Japanese food on the Gold Coast [...]
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The spanking clean new urinals at The Melbourne Wine Room.
It’s taken a long time and it is only now that I can account or my fascination for lavatories, WCs or bogs – anything but toilets. It goes back to junior school where the teacher punished me for using the word lavatory. Back home I was [...]
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I‘m spending two hours a day in the Apple lecture theatre accessing the fast broadband network as we are still wind-up internet at home.
It’s a stones throw from my old work stamping ground of Soho, the tiny streets bordered by Regent and Wardour Streets.
My big food find is Fernandez and Wells on Beak St with [...]
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Just note that the spelling is Midsummer and not Midsomer. And the only nettles were crisp fried on the plate rather than in the cast.
We are at Midsummer House on Midsummer Common in Cambridge, the single Michelin starred restaurant in East Anglia – or so I’m told.
Despite being on the cam, in that perverse English [...]
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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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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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Jeff Jarvis (via NYT) is twittering and blogging about an open source restaurant:
“I twittered that I was having fun writing the chapter in my book about what a restaurant run on Googlethink might look like (besides being decorated in gaudy primary colors)…
…I have lots of ideas about an open and transparent restaurant operation, experience, and [...]
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