Is it un-Australian to not eat meat? Whilst the Aussie BBQ strikes fear into many a vegetarian relegated to a life of sad stares, mesculin and a bread roll; our fine dining restaurants are finally catching up to the fact that many of us want to be inspired beyond an arabiatta pasta or a mushroom...
Did your parents take you to the local bowlo for Chinese when you were a kid? It might have been a school holidays treat, a Sunday night ritual or a birthday special but one thing is for sure; Australian Cantonese cuisine is steeped in nostalgia. If you crave being a child again for one night (perhaps to dance...
Melbourne, meet Rosetta. Rosetta, meet Melbourne. Right, now that we have the pleasantries out of the way, let’s get down to business. Rosetta – Neil Perry’s new lady friend – is his first time with an Italian (after Rockpool and Spice Temple). And boy has he chosen well! She’s elegant, refined and has great taste...
If you believed yum cha was all about chicken feet and choosing sometimes slightly unidentifiable baskets of rations from a trolley, you need to make a hasty dash to Spice Temple. As if he doesn’t already have enough on his plate (see what we did there?), superchef Neil Perry has worked with his Melbourne team...
