Chef Cuong Nguyen created the cult brand and eatery Hello Auntie many years ago. First kicking off in Marrickville, the home to the best Banh Mi in Sydney, then it expanded into Haymarket with a more glamorous look. It’s famed for its street food favourites, and how it pushes the edges of Vietnamese cuisine into...
How many times have you been to a restaurant and seen the same things? Mweh! From Thai, Chinese, Italian to Middle Eastern. Each menu might have the odd twist but largely we are not challenged or pushed outside our boundaries. Not so at ESCA Group’s Aalia (from the team who brought us Nour), in fact...
There is a dining revival happening in Sydney. We can’t spend our hard earned dollars on travel, so other than saving for a house (aka shoebox) what is there to do? Many of us are upscale dining. Using our $$$ for better wine, a market price fish or going to a destination restaurant which has...
We live in one of the most photogenic cities in the world, so why do we leave some of the best restaurants with a view to people visiting Sydney? Are we too cool to be a voyeur? Chef Michael Moore is a well-respected stalwart of our dining scene. Not many know he is a diabetic;...
When we got word that macaron maestros MakMak and Bakedown Cakery were teaming up, our mouths started watering immediately. And a sneak peak at this brand new boutique store has us down right drooling. MakMak mastermind Carlos Heng and Bakedown leading lady Jen Ho first met at a MakMak’s macaron class – it was ‘a meeting...
With restaurants popping up then disappearing more times than Rebel Wilson on a space hopper it’s great to see one team get the combo of coffee, food and people right. Anyone familiar with the Italian scene will know the Bertoni brothers, Bert and Tony. Their cafes have expanded across Sydney faster than you can say...
For those of us who have been to Hu Tong before, we know the dumplings are worth their weight in gold, if that makes any sense in reference to dumplings. You get the point though. Those who haven’t been need to take a long serious look in the mirror and ask themselves why. But, the...
You know you’re not staying in no ordinary hotel … When you’re greeted by a red head vixen, kitted out in black burlesque uniform – her working title: Director of Chaos. When you enter the psychadelic lift and exit into a lobby replete with bespoke furniture, LED digital art and a wall of leather suitcases....
If Asia has Longrain and France has Bennelong, Mexican now has Mejico! Sydney’s newest fine diner is achingly cool, thanks to the efforts of its design dream team Project 82 and Koskela. Let’s face it, we’re all suckers for a bit of unadulterated visual pleasure a.k.a window porn (in this case, sweetcorn porn). Mejico chefs...
Can you hear that? It’s the sound of stilettos chattering up George Street en route to find Miss Chu’s new underground outpost. City workers all over Sydney are doing the happy dance as they say goodbye to food court style rice paper rolls and hello to misschu’s fresh tiger prawn, duck, chicken and tuna rolls....
