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Monkey Magic

November 23, 2010

If Sydney’s Japanese restaurants’ menus could be lined up in a row, we might be excused for thinking it is a case of the usual suspects. Salmon avocado rolls, crispy fried soft-shell crab rolls, beef teriyaki.. sigh. But a New York style Japanese fusion restaurant, Monkey Magic, is setting a new agenda. Suzuki jewfish with [...]

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Rice pudding macarons

October 24, 2010

Adriano Zumbo, of course. Theses oatmeal and ylang ylang macarons are soft and chewy on the inside, and crispy on the outside, again, of course. But even more amazing were the rice pudding and the coconut and pineapple macarons, the first with that creamy pudding flavour folded into to the not-too-sugary macarons. Pretty clever mister [...]

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Morning at Eveleigh

October 12, 2010

We love the packaging, we love the sweet roasted scented muesli with hints of orange, pecans and coconut, we love Farmer Jo, a stall at Eveleigh Markets. These smart little cartons hold five different flavours of cereal, using all natural ingredients. Farmer Jo roast all the nuts and dry the coconut and fruits themselves, and [...]

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Breakfast on the bridge

October 11, 2010

Good morning Sydney! Delays on postings can be explained away with trips to Kangaroo Valley and trips to Melbourne. I reignite the postings with a timelapse clip from Sydney’s Breakfast on the Bridge on the weekend. I missed out on the lottery tickets (again), so got all delight from this little film. Instead, I made [...]

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Freestyle Espresso

September 28, 2010

The laneways, little nooks and spots of urban funkyness that make Sydney totally jealous of Melbourne has been well reported on. So Sydney ups the ante, opening new bars and cafes in the few laneways it does have, and then Melbourne just blows all the effort away with some brand new, uber creative culinary post. [...]

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Bécasse producers’ forum

September 8, 2010

Sydney is getting all unearthed about where its food comes from. It wants to know what’s organic and how many bugs had to die by force of chemical to get that beetroot on the plate. It makes perfect sense to know your pinot gris came from the right area, and that the little box of [...]

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The midnight feast

August 30, 2010

The midnight feast. A childhood culinary romantic adventurism fuelled by fairytales and heros and Harry Potter. It’s children who dreamed up the idea of waking and sneaking and hushing and uncovering some extraordinary concoction of food and carbohydrate-laden treats in the middle of the night. And we adults should bring it back. Ideally the midnight [...]

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Donate a meal

August 25, 2010

This beautifully designed and heart-wrenching site, Donate-A-Meal, gets viewers to fill the plates of hungry children. Apparently 16,000 kids living in Dusseldorf, Germany, are hungry. They are growing up in welfare benefit households and their tummies are “rumbling and grumbling”. They wait in a queue as you fill their plates with schnitzel and potatoes. Click [...]

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Boatshed sneakers

August 24, 2010

Am absolutely crashy tired so no energy to give full worth to the discoveries I made over the weekend, but then wouldn’t sleep very well without offering a sneak, at least, of this little boutique hotel on Waiheke Island, on New Zealand’s North Island. The Boatshed, as crisp as a New Zealand sauvignon blanc and [...]

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The Boat House, Palm Beach

August 15, 2010

A Saturday morning at Palm Beach, where we dropped in to the decked and red-and-white stripe decked out The Boat House. Hands down, best fish and chips I’ve had in Sydney, all beer battered and crispy flathead. Sunny wintery Sydney on the Hawkesbury at this little cottage setting was refreshing and so happy making. Two [...]

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Cool Britannia

August 1, 2010

This rustic, sort-of English, sort-of French bistro cum industrial restaurant is as creative as Sydney restaurants get. Arras, in Walsh Bay just up from the Sydney Theatre, had our party reeling. I’ve posted already with some gushing about the desserts and petit four, so won’t harp on, but I promised something on the mains tout [...]

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Arras, Walsh Bay

July 29, 2010

Don’t be fooled when you hear chef Adam Humphrey’s thick Yorkshire accent. He may sound like he knows only stews and pork pies, but the man is a genius. Humphrey says Yorkshire pudding is too easy, so doesn’t bother putting it on his English-inspired menu at Arras. His creative menu includes fish and chips and [...]

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Sticky in The Rocks

July 20, 2010

Writing about Sticky, the confectioner in The Rocks, for The Foodies Guide to Sydney. It’s a toss up which is more entertaining – the whirling, churning thick threads of candy or the squeals and “ohh yeaaahs” coming from the kids standing next to me. Check it out… Sticky: Shop 10, The Rocks Centre, Kendall Lane, [...]

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Bird Cow Fish at Eveleigh Markets

June 24, 2010

Alex Herbert, of Bird Cow Fish in Surry Hills fame, cooked me an omelette while I was standing right there in front of her. She used heirloom tomatoes tossed with the cherry variety, finely sliced Spanish onion and lots of parsley, all marinated in their own juices. And using three eggs she pulled together a [...]

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