Tourists get to experience the best of Sydney. When was the last time you escaped the hustle and bustle of Sydney’s CBD with a strole around the Chinese Garden of Friendship? Mmmm not lately. Well, sharpen your chopsticks, there is a new reason to go, as One Dining Opens, replacing Gardens by Lotus. We arrive...
Many a Carlton Football fan would have been heartbroken when Peter ‘Percy’ Jones closed the doors on Percy’s Bar and Bistro at The Astor Hotel. The four-time Carlton premiership player closed the venue after almost three decades of being the watering hole for local Carlton supporters. While we can’t bring back Percy, you can fill the void...
The ‘East’ is often looked upon as a mysterious land of culture and originality. But when it comes to inner east suburb of Zetland it’s been at the end of the proverbial cultural alphabet for some time. A trip wouldn’t have been on your radar let alone Google maps. East Village is the newest, hippest...
You know the drill; it’s a battle of wits, speed, agility and (let’s face it) will power. It takes a certain kind of personal strength to beat the yum cha women at their own game and not succumb to a table heaving with every kind of steamed, fried, wok tossed delights under the Golden Sun....
Larry the lobster is probably hoping that the good luck ceremonies bestowed on the restaurant by a Taoist monk and three eyelash batting Chinese dancing dragons is going to be enough to save him … something tells us he’s going to need more than a firecracker launch party to distract the horde at the Star’s...
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...
