Ho's Dim Sim Kitchen
If we’re being generous, this is a ‘humble’ place: a tiny shopfront on a nondescript block of Pitt Street. Less generously, it’s... read more...
The Battery
With the exception of your local takeaway, seafood tends to be caught up in various types of bullshit. Good seafood is expensive, so the elite claim it... read more...
Mr B's
On paper, who’s saying no to a place that squeezes the pub and bistro staple through the aesthetic sieve of late 90s Kowloon freakout? No one is.... read more...
Le Petit Cafe
Come the weekend, Coogee Bay Road is fierce, and not in a good way. Many of the locals are body builders, a lot of them are English, some of them drive... read more...
Solas
Update: Solas has closed. Mr Fox sits there now!Imagine a bear fighting a crocodile. That’s my social conscience versus my desire to make a pun on... read more...
Beach Haus
Beach Haus sits where Baron’s once proudly did. Those are some big shoes to fill, and it probably had two options: fill the shoes or change them.... read more...
Mulled wine recipe
When I was in the Czech Republic I was staying in this tiny town called Libcice. My friend was throwing a party in his garden and it was -10C outside.... read more...
Berta
If you haven’t read about Berta yet, you will. It’s a foregone conclusion. I know this for a number of reasons: it’s in a devastatingly... read more...
Boteco
Locally, Brazilian cuisine has mostly been pigeonholed as churrasco – a brutish, gluttonous affair that ends in a meat-sweat like all get out. Not... read more...
Frank's Pizza Bar
According to Wiki, 67% of the land adjacent to Parramatta Road is devoted to car dealerships. I was hoping for more stats about what percentage was home... read more...
The Passage
The aptly-named Passage is a discreet space stretching between Darlinghurst Road and Victoria Street, on the old L’otel site. A communal bench table... read more...
Stanley Street Station
Note: Stanley Street Station has now closed Worthy, heavy-handed conceit about anything can be instantly off-putting: this is my problem with performance... read more...
Remy & Lee's - CLOSED
NOTE: CLOSED ON 21 AUG 2011. What’s in a name, right? Who knows if Mr Olufsen still talks shop with Mr Bang. Or whether the sound of Simon would... read more...
Emma's on Liberty
There’s not a lot on this stretch of the map. Pigeon Ground, then Camperdown Cellars, and the third star in this Orion’s Belt is Emma’s... read more...
DIY Cheese
"I was free and clear. I was living the dream. I was stripped to the waist eating a block of cheese the size of a car battery." – George... read more...
The Flinders
A little while back, when news of the Flinders’ re-opening emerged, people expressed some, ahem, strong opinions. Certain cliques in a town like... read more...
Homemade Baileys
Regardless, Baileys is still the best thing for the coming winter months. Better still, it’s really easy to make at home and for only $42 you can... read more...
Eiger Swiss Restaurant
The Swiss (not The Swiss) aren’t exactly known for their culinary genius. As the old racist stereotype goes, in heaven you leave the cooking for... read more...
The Shortlist
Cafe description is difficult. Not like, digging-a-grave-tough, obviously, but challenging in its own way. Outside of uniquely good coffee, which transcends... read more...
Cooking with Kai
"Good duck, not bad duck, not Daffy Duck, not Donald Duck, Goooood Duck." – Kai (the cooking genius), on which brand of noodles you should... read more...
The Kick Inside
Note: Closed February 2012 Government bodies and estate agents love to talk about this town as a ‘city of villages’. And it is, in as much... read more...
Grasshopper
When we jumped down the stairs into this long-awaited bar, we got asked "did you have trouble finding the place?" Well, kinda, cause Temperance... read more...
Twin Peaks 20th anniversary Cherry Pie
Once, when interviewed, the guy who played the backwards-speaking dwarf in the ‘black lodge’ scene, which appeared at the end of Twin Peaks... read more...
Pho Gia Hoi
I know how exhausting it is to start reading something and seeing a reference to Twitter, but there it went so let’s just accept it and soldier on.... read more...