Easter is such a wonderful time of the year. That’s what we think over here at Daily Addict anyway. Chocolate is in constant abundance – which isn’t that much of an unusual occurrence in our world, but we’re encouraged to eat copious amounts of it at this time of year. Oh the joy. We could...
Month: March 2015
The Easter Sweet Treats Guide
So the eggs have been in the supermarket aisles since Boxing Day but is it just us or does Easter still seem to creep up on you? If you haven’t started using Easter puns in your emails yet (come one, they’re eggscellent), you might need a little help getting into the Easter spirit. Not to...
Swan Street is Getting All Kinds of Sweet With Noir Bar
Do you ever feel like a super fancy dessert at 1am in the morning? Don’t worry, us too. And now Noir, the One Chef Hatted Swan Street restaurant in Richmond, is giving us a space to do just that. The owners of Noir, Peter Roddy and Ebony Vagg, saw a gap in the Swan Street...
Etsy Enters the Real World & Sets Up Shop at The Cullen
As far as online relationships go, you’re basically BFFs. You kill time together on your lunch hour, and when anything’s out of your own DIY dexterity, Etsy’s got your back . Now it’s time for an IRL encounter. And what more perfect location than Prahran’s equally idiosyncratic Art Series Hotel? This April Etsy.com is checking...
The New Cult Brand Landing at Mecca Maxima This Week
Certain beauty products inspire a rabid following. But how did experimental brand Urban Decay enter the infamous Cult Classic Hall of Fame alongside Diorshow and YSL Touche Éclat? Perhaps the words “Naked Palette” ring a bell. (Word on the street is that one of Urban Decay’s Naked products are sold every three seconds.) And it’s not just the...
8 Cool Companies With Big Hearts
Don’t you just feel better about yourself when you’re drinking a beer that you know is also funding a worthy cause? Or when you find out that bottle of water that rehydrated you also helped give a third world country access to clean water? It’s karma eating made possible by some truly special companies. Whether it’s a small charity...
Two Times the American Fun on Elgin Street
When two good things come together, it makes double the fun, right? That is exactly how we feel about 5 Points Deli and Longhorn Saloon. Opened on Elgin Street in Carlton by American brothers Will and Mick Balleau (known for Le Bon Ton and Chingon) it’s bringing together a lot of American goodness in the...
Longrains Dives Into Indian Cuisine with Subcontinental
Longrain can do no wrong; we fell in love with Shortgrain and the Bunker Bar, where we relished the camouflage style darkness and enjoyed random music fuelled evenings on those oh so comfy banquets which made it really difficult not to say “Oh go on, I’ll stay for another one”. Sam Christie’s basement bar has...
Fries and Shakes But No Burgers at Boy & Co.
Burgers are a much-loved Melbourne staple. We get that. But, if you take a look around any suburb, you’ll realise that the stuff has been done and is being done again and again. So the team behind Boy & Co thought it was time to give the ‘sides’ a time to shine. And by sides...
Pana Chocolate Hits Sydney
Bounty. Lamington. Vespa wheel. Choc mint. Gluten free. Dairy free. Organic. This is not a drill. That’s right. Pana Chocolate has come to Sydney. Tucked into the back of The Fountain in Alexandria (the same converted warehouse as Bread and Circus), Melbourne’s master raw chocolatier Pana Barbounis and his healthy dessert store is now happily...