Eveleigh Markets // Sydney
It’s the day before Christmas and creatures are a-stirring, busy buying last minute gifts and figuring out how to feed the hoards about to descend on their homes, myself included. It’s so distracting, in fact, that I abandoned my long-overdue Sepia post and decide instead to join them. My aunt is due in from Melbourne and,...
Sepia // Dine // Sydney
Rarely does a Sydney restaurant provoke so much excitement amongst the food industry and us common-folk alike. Sepia opened its doors in 2009 and within the first year had received its first chef’s hat in the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide Awards. In 2011 it received its second hat with Martin Benn, formerly of Tetsuya’s winning Chef of...
Black Star Pastry // Dine // Sydney
When investigating anything these days, I Google the “best …” and trawl through the first few search results. In this case, my search phrase was “best bakery Sydney” and the top article was a comprehensive Time Out review on Sydney’s best bakeries. The very first listing was Black Star Pastry, with the following description, “You can buy...
Beach Burrito Company // Dine // Sydney
This place is really called BBC. Well, it is to those who have been loyally returning year after year, stumbling up Campbell Parade, ugh boots scraping on the pavement, wishing they hadn’t drunk another of whatever it was they were indulging in the night before. I know I know, I hear you gasp, “ugh boots...
The Norfolk
The Norfolk took a little getting used to for me. Since it’s complete write-off on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, with a line out the door and around the corner, I couldn’t see where it sat on my list. It most certainly wasn’t a casual drinking, chatting, catching up venue, waiting for decades at the...
Baxter Inn // Drink // Sydney
The Baxter Inn is so much a bar I created a “Bars” section on the blog to host it. Seriously. I almost didn’t end up finding it, with half an hour to spare and a only a Google Map and a Time Out review to help locate it, I had trotted around in a giant...
The Hunter Valley – Elton Weekend
Elton John is my favourite. I should tell you that at mostly every event that my boyfriend and I attend we are usually the only ones even remotely under 30, without grey hair and often not in zimmer frames. It’s ok, we deal. Usually with a glass of red in hand, we bravely face the...
Margan
“Take a photo, it lasts longer”. A wise piece of advice if I ever heard one, even if it is more often found in the context of being shrieked at unsuspecting leerers peering down girls’ shirts. As you may have noticed, there was a lot to photograph at Margan. While in the Hunter Valley for...
Concrete Blonde // Dine // Sydney
Slow and steady wins the race. I guess that’s my excuse as to how it took me so long to get here. One of those places I had been meaning to visit forever, I finally found myself a suitable date and dragged myself to the Cross to sample the finest Concrete Blonde had to offer....
