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New podcast – Patrick Friesen, Papi Chulo, Queen Chow

Patrick Friesen originally thought he was going to be a doctor. He also planned to be in Sydney for a short spell – but luckily for Australians (and their appetites), he did a U-turn on both points and we’re now fans of the talented chef and his menu-ruling work at Merivale’s many venues: Ms Gs, […]

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The best non-alcoholic drinks in Sydney

You no longer have to cosy up to a bottle of lemonade or keep re-ordering Coke if you’re after a booze-free night out. Many top restaurants are now offering inventive drinks for people who are skipping the alcohol for health, religious, philosophical and I-don’t-want-to-lose-my-provisional-licence reasons. I wrote about this recently for Good Food, covering the […]

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New podcast – Stuart Krelle, Luchetti Krelle

From producing macaron wallpaper for Adriano Zumbo to making dynamite-stick lights for ACME – and creating the “zombie-proof” exteriors for Momofuku Seiobo – Luchetti Krelle has been behind the attention-hooking designs for Sydney’s noteworthy restaurants, bars and eateries. Co-director Stuart Krelle has worked on hospitality projects of all budgets and styles – from the mega-pop […]


2016 restaurant openings to look forward to

2016 is more than just working out how much wriggle room you have with your New Year’s resolutions (all our good intentions will totally kick in tomorrow, right?), but a box-fresh January also means a year of new openings to look forward to. Here are some places to get excited about. –Toby Wilson’s “not shit” […]


The Rabbit Hole Organic Tea Bar, Redfern

The Rabbit Hole Organic Tea Bar reopened in Redfern last week, so it’s a good time to respark interest in this great one-of-a-kind venue. It’s gotten a lot of worthwhile attention for proving that there’s more to tea than a bag thoughtlessly dunked into a mug – and even though steeped leaves are a headline […]


New podcast – Mike Eggert, Pinbone

Mike Eggert studied environmental science – a career path he returned to, in a way, when he cooked feral animals for a Pinbone/Young Henrys event for 2015’s Good Food Month (an occasion that lead to a truly spectacular, poncho-staining food fight). After detouring from his studies and becoming a chef, he went on to work […]


The Paddington and other 2015 highlights

So I’m writing this literally hours before 2015 is about to wind up, so I hope you don’t mind if I do a little time-tripping via memory lane and drop some of my culinary highlights of 2015. One of the most-amped-up openings of the year was The Paddington in (non-spoiler alert) Paddington. Given that it […]


New podcast – Magnus Nilsson, Faviken, The Nordic Cookbook

I chat to Magnus Nilsson about his epic new publication (The Nordic Cookbook, which has 700+ recipes that he collated from the region – including 400 recipes that he personally tested at home and features some of the 8000 photographs he took of the area), whether he believes as many World’s 50 Best judges actually […]


Happy (almost) holidays and an update

So it may seem like I’ve abandoned mission control for a bit, but that’s not entirely true! I recently started a new job and things have been ultra-busy. So my clearance rate on working through the posting backlog has not been amazing, I admit. But the reason for the dust-collecting and blog weed growth is […]

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New podcast – Annabel Crabb, Kitchen Cabinet, Special Delivery

Annabel Crabb once put a laptop in the oven and it wasn’t even the worst thing she’s ever cooked. Rare culinary slip-ups aside, the host of Kitchen Cabinet is brilliant at mastering recipes (she’s just released an excellent cookbook, after all). And her food-transporting game is pretty strong, too – for her ABC TV show, […]


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Hi, I'm Lee Tran Lam. When not blogging with my mouth full, I'm usually writing, presenting Local Fidelity on FBi radio, making zines, producing podcasts or continually breaking promises about how I really am gonna get through my book pile one day.

All the good pictures on this blog are by photography ace (and patient boyfriend), Will Reichelt, (all the dodgy ones can be credited to me)!

The lovely banner is by friend and ultra-talented illustrator Grace Lee.

This site redesign was made possible by the next-level generosity and expertise of Daniel Boud, whose code-tinkering ways are only outranked by his seriously inspired way with a camera.

You can read more about my co-conspirators here.

This is a blog I do for pure fun and zero influence – there's no sponsorship, sneaky advertorial or advertising. I pay for all the food mentioned, 'cos it seems the ethical thing to do.


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