I have a theory that it only takes one dish to make you want to visit a new place. Menu-bait, to be precise. At Bonsai in Bronte, the must-try temptation that reeled me in was their Mandarin Creme Brulee ($12). I didn’t really have to see what else they had to offer, that was enough […]
If you had to graph our reaction to Sparkle Cupcakery in Surry Hills, our initial response was all off-the-chart spikes. On a less mathematical note, I might even admit to some jumping and down and perhaps the odd (totally undignified) yelp. After all, the display was crammed with colour-coded cupcakes and vivid ingredients listings to […]
“Can you write on your blog about ‘bressert’?” asked Chris. “You know, ‘breakfast dessert’?” Sure. I admit, the phrase sounds eerily similar to a form of ladies underwear often seen in frat-boy comedies, but I am pro-bressert. I like the idea of the breakfast food pyramid being dismantled, gutted and rebuilt with a few secret […]
Caketown in Newtown is probably a little wrongly named – Cakecloset might be more accurate in conveying how much measuring tape you’d use in sizing it up. Despite its XS dimensions and industrial feel, this bakery is packed with such a high eye-candy-to-space ratio that the lack of roominess isn’t such a downfall. Just make […]
Eating out near home is always double-edged. Your cooking conscience guilts you about how you should’ve saved money by making something in your own kitchen. The lazy-ass part of you, meanwhile, is happy not to be scrubbing plates and de-clogging the sink strainer (ew). I live behind a “dumpling belt” of restaurants – great if […]
The other day I received a mysterious package in the mail (much better than those non-mysterious bills with their clear windows of horror). It was a hen handcrafted out of felt. There was no message in the envelope and no return address either. Just a cute hen. The next day, I looked at it a […]
After spending many back-to-back days as a work-imprisoned hermit, Will said, “Let’s get dressed up and go somewhere nice for dinner.” My response to that was always going to be flag-wavingly obvious. There’s nothing I like more than an emergency fancy dinner! So we went to Glass brasserie at the Hilton Hotel. Glass lives up […]
Dad grabbed the sugar bowl and turned on the stove. It was electric and fired up immediately. “See this here?” He took a pinch of sugar and held it high above the heat. A flurry fell from his fingers onto the coil, orange now and scalding. The crystals popped into tight little fireballs. Henry’s eyes […]
When Mark from China Heights gallery claimed Cafe Ish as one of his favourites on my list blog, that’s when the place first tripped off my worth-registering-in-brain mechanism. I did a bit more online sleuthing and discovered it was a cafe that specialised in Australian food with a Japanese twist (!) and it flaunted an […]
The window display is full of multi-colour pasta strands spilling out like uncontrollable ribbons. The colour spectrum runs from chilli-red tagliolini to spinach-green fettucine. And, for the very first time I’ve walked past it, it’s actually open (a fact that says more about my anti-social weekend sleeping patterns than the shop’s hours). Of course, I […]
