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
Best new restaurants in San Francisco
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
Wine tasting in the Napa Valley and Sonoma
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
Melbourne’s hot new tables: August 2017
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
How to make a Frozen Elsa birthday cake
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
Best new restaurants in Seminyak 2017: Gourmet Chick in Bali
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
Resort life at Sofitel Nusa Dua: Gourmet Chick In Bali
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
Melbourne’s hot new tables: July 2017
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
Top tips for Mrs Sippy: Gourmet Chick in Bali
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
Getting healthy at Terror Twilight
I’ll admit to happily indulging in a fried chicken sandwich at Bedford Street. But I’ll also admit I only went there twice because I try to limit my fried chicken consumption. I mustn’t have been the only person with one eye on my likelihood of a future heart attack so the owners of Bedford Street