Let me start by saying that this is not a review of Bells at Killcare. A review is something you do when you visit a restaurant unannounced, pay the bill with your own money (even better when it’s absconded from an employer), order a cross-section of dishes that you believe will demonstrate the true power [...]
Archive for November, 2010
26 Nov
For Aussie Thanksgiving, The Ultimate Cornbread
While Christmas is the main holiday draw here in Australia, in the US it takes a back seat to Thanksgiving. It kinda makes sense. It’s non-denominational, so even the Jews, Muslims, Hari Krishnas, atheists, animists, Jedis, Satanists, druids and witches can participate, along with the Catholics, Protestants, Anglicans, Quakers and Mormons. And while people sometimes [...]
20 Nov
Finally, a Fab Australian Butter
How can I put this in a politically sensitive way, so that I don’t offend anyone’s patriotic zeal? How’s this – Australian butter is crap. Honestly, it is. In fact, the only thing worse than our crap, bland, brainless butter is the crappier, lobotomy-white, lazy-ass-whipped, flavourless butter that they serve in US supermarkets. If you [...]
19 Nov
Silly Season is Go – Freelancer’s Lunch at The Burlington, Crows Nest
There are times as a food writer that you feel that you spend all of your time scoping out the latest and greatest eateries, and sometimes you forget to check out other fantastic eateries that you miss along the way. That’s definitely the case with Lela Radojkovic’s The Burlington Bar & Dining. I never got [...]
17 Nov
Something to Chaat About – Coffee Garam in Surry HIlls
It all started innocently enough. After blogging about another Sydney café last week, I was contacted on Twitter by a Surry Hills cafe I hadn’t heard of called Coffee Garam and asked if I could stop by for a visit. I’m a bit wary of places I haven’t heard about, since I generally know about [...]
16 Nov
Cup Fever – Campos Coffee Cupping Room, Newtown
For all of Sydney’s talk about serious coffee, the city has never had a cupping room before. We’re talking the same kind of smelling, sucking, spitting and other ill-mannered gestures that have previously accompanied wine snobbery… and party pashes. Heck, even all of those Americans that Aussie like to take the piss out of for [...]
2 Nov
The Robots Are Coming! – Robo Cog cafe
It’s been a disastrous month for breakfast in Sydney, with two of my favourite new cafes closing their brekkie business. First there was Redfern’s Moose General Store, which got rolled by Sydney City Council over its sidewalk seating, then Chalmers Street’s Eat House decided serving breakfast and lunch was too much and started focusing on [...]
