The view from the plane as you approach Hamilton Island has to be one of the more spectacular flight descents in the world. Over the wing of the aeroplane you can spot dazzling turquoise sea dotted with the lush green islands which make up the Whitsundays. From the tiny airport it’s a short five minute
A cult Israeli street food restaurant from a celebrity chef? Smoky wood fired pizzas at a family friendly place on Brunswick street? A dessert parlour and ice-cream shop from Melbourne’s pastry queen? Tick. Tick. Tick. For the food and drink obsessed like me there’s lots to love about Melbourne’s newest openings this September. Miznon Lunches
I’m in the lucky position of being a semi regular visitor to San Francisco thanks to work trips and so given this was my fourth trip to the city I focused on checking out what was new since my last visit two years ago. As one of the best eating cities in the world (and
An easy travel rule of thumb is that wine regions are always great places to travel to. There’s good wine (of course) but generally good food as well along with stunning scenery. So on my work trip last month to San Francisco I decided I absolutely had to fit in a quick visit to the
Hello fellow food fanatics. There are so many new openings this month that it’s hard to know where to begin. Big names including Guy Grossi and Andrew McConnell have new places and there is also a bit of a charcoal chicken revival going on. All good news for this time of year where we need
My four year old daughter is absolutely obsessed with Frozen and so for her birthday last week she requested an Elsa cake. For some reason all the little Frozen fans out there seem to prefer Elsa to the other star of the movie Anna. I decided to adapt one of the ‘Dolly Varden’ cakes from
One of the major pleasures of a trip to Bali is the fabulous food. For your eating pleasure I’ve pulled together my hot list of Seminyak’s best new restaurants. I couldn’t resist eating at a few old favourites on this trip but I also managed to fit in some serious eating at a host of
There are hundreds of different resorts in Bali and I’ve been lucky enough to stay at some amazing places there but it took A LOT of research* to settle on the Sofitel Nusa Dua as the base for our trip last month. The criteria was somewhere luxurious where I could laze around and drink cocktails
Friends are always asking me what the best new restaurants and cafes are to go to. I generally have my own personal list of new places I’ve heard have opened and eateries I’ve checked out myself so I thought it might be helpful to collate them here as a useful guide to what’s hot and
The biggest new restaurant opening in Bali this year is actually a pool club. Mrs Sippy has been built around a huge 800 square metre swimming pool complete with 5 metre diving tower. The water is aquamarine blue and surrounded by day beds and loungers to fit in up to 2,000 people for swimming, sun
