He’s your closet’s best friend and your credit card’s worst enemy. And those relationships are about to get a lot more intense. Yes, Sydney’s spirit animal Dion Lee finally has his own house of worship – a stand-alone boutique in the Strand Arcade. If the clothes are a fusion of art and science, this is...
Shanghai Chic by Day and Evening Looks Double the fun if you celebrate the Chinese New Lunar Year, when it’s customary to visit family homes, dress in red (a symbol of joy, good luck and fortune) and give children money in beautiful red envelopes. Of course, it’s all the better to ring in the New...
Hellenic Republic has been feeding us for a while now. If you’re anything like us, you’ve had dreams about that grain salad. And now, there is more of a good thing to go around. Hellenic Republic has opened it’s second venue in Kew, where St Katherine’s once stood. While there was a fire in the...
Remember those times when you’d sit eagerly on the phone, waiting to see if Jacques Reymond had a table available? Whether you do or don’t remember this feeling, it will never happen again. After years of sitting at the top of the Melbourne restaurant food chain and after almost three decades running the loved restaurant,...
Following in the footsteps of retail giants before it Uniqlo the Japanese clothing retailer is coming to Melbourne. Yep that’s right. Zara, Topshop, at some point H&M and now Uniqlo. While it won’t hit our shores properly until later in the year, Uniglo has decided to open a pop up shop in Swanston Street so...
Australia Day is one of those days where you can celebrate it just about any way you want. As Aussies we often favour things like sport, a tipple or two, and good music. Can you blame us? Here are some of our picks for Australia Day. Have a brew or two at Joe’s Bar and...
When we heard that Jason Jones (Porgie & Mr Jones, Friends of Mine, Snow Pony, The Stables of Como) and Philippa Sibley (Albert St Food & Wine) were joining forces, our hungry little ears pricked up. When we heard it was going to be Australia’s first ticketed dining experience, we were officially intrigued. Prix Fixe...
The weather is soaring. It’s a New Year. Everyone is looking for that ‘thing’ to help jump-start their health kick. What appears to go well with all three of these things? A juice cleanse. Yep, we are talking three to five days of just vegetables and fruit. Juiced. But, truth be told, they’re not the...
Back to work and already reaching for the bottle? There’s nothing like a chilled glass of wine at the end of a long day. And some meat straight from the spit. Ok maybe that’s just the die-hard carnivores, but at Bottle and Beast you get the best of both. Jared Ingersoll (Danks St Depot) couldn’t...
We know we should be polite and say that size doesn’t matter but let’s face it, six inch heels are sexier, so too the 6” burger at Good Time Burgers. You can keep your sliders (and other imposters), these burgers are such structural masterpieces of design and hedonistic pleasure Marc Newson should take note. Bondi...
