BYO makes a come back
BYO has returned to Sydney and Melbourne restaurants struggling with rising costs and reluctant diners.
Food and Wine
Tetsuya’s: end of an era
By the time you read this, Sydney culinary icon Tetsuya’s Restaurant will have closed permanently.
67 Pall Mall comes to Melbourne
The high-profile London wine and food venue, 67 Pall Mall, is currently establishing itself in Melbourne.
Resting on past glories
It was easy to be seduced by the spiel in a tourist brochure, puffing a seafood restaurant on the Connemara coast in Ireland recently.
A new bar at Sofitel
On occasion, opportunities appear that should be taken and so it was when Stuart Knox got the chance to visit the latest bar Lumière on Thirty Five at Sofitel Darling Harbour.
Dining and wine adventures at Cru Bar & Cellar
Huon Hooke dines at Cru Bar & Cellar in Brisbane and has a ‘rummage’ in their cellar to find a wine to drink.
It must have been something I sipped
Taking a break from judging at a wine competition, the wine-weary judges perked up when they spotted a tray of jam tarts by the coffee urn.
Lo-fi adventures in East Sussex
Touring in the East Sussex countryside recently, Huon Hooke and his partner chose a vineyard farmstay near Rye, named Tillingham.
Wine and food mismatching
Kingsley Wood toasted Christmas with the same vintage of Dom as the previous year but was disappointed. It was nothing like the wine they had tasted the previous year.
Fish and white wine perfection
Reading the recipe of this My Food Bag dish, Bob Campbell MW predicted it would make a great match. Chardonnay seemed the obvious choice, but finally, he chose three wines.