July 6th, 2012 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Restaurants | 4 Comments »
This is just a quick, bento-sized update to say how much Will and I like Ume in Surry Hills. It’s a new Japanese place run by Kerby Craig (The Bridge Room, Tetsuya, Koi) and Hiroko Muranishi (who, like her chef husband, also worked at Koi). It’s eternally hanami-watching time, thanks to the cherry-blossom mural and […]
June 11th, 2012 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Favourites, Restaurants | 7 Comments »
The old Gourmet Viking site in Newtown has been regenerated into Hartsyard, a brilliant new restaurant run by Gregory Llewellyn and Naomi Hart. The couple score “A for effort” on many fronts: for making their own cocktail syrups, coaxing heirloom vegetables and intriguing herbs from their own greenhouse/garden and ingeniously constructing bar shelves from plumbing […]
March 26th, 2012 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Favourites, Restaurants | 3 Comments »
Sixpenny in Stanmore may be named after faded currency, but this new restaurant has plenty of sparkle and worth. It’s the long-awaited venture for Daniel Puskas and James Parry, the brilliant prize-winning chefs who last created course-by-course magic together at Oscillate Wildly. They’ve been wanting to open their own establishment since they left that fine […]
February 23rd, 2012 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Restaurants | 15 Comments »
What a strange week it’s been. It started off really great, I had a lovely birthday (birthdays are kinda rigged to be fun and awesome – even in that mopey film Sixteen Candles, she got that priceless kiss in the end) and that was a handy excuse to have a good dinner. My first great […]
November 22nd, 2011 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Favourites, Restaurants | 16 Comments »
There was megawatt hype surrounding Momofuku Seiobo before it even opened a few weeks ago, and the restaurant didn’t so much quietly launch as blast off. With supercharged interest in David Chang’s new Sydney venture – his first outside his New York empire – every minor move and detail was reported on before diners even […]
December 31st, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Restaurants | 7 Comments »
Just when the scorecard was already looking good for 2010, Ms G’s comes along and bumps the average up even higher. This year, Sydney’s been lucky to welcome so many brilliant newcomers (Berta, Duke Bistro, Bloodwood, Porteno, to name some of the fresh blood) and this place ends 2010 on a pretty dizzy note. Ms […]
November 30th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Restaurants | 3 Comments »
This is a quick post to explain the semi-silence on the blog … I’ve been away in Japan and have only returned (with many samples of confectionery and green tea as return-flight companions). It’s a country that is greatly rewarding to appetites. Hopefully I’ll be able to post a few visual mementoes of the meals […]
November 1st, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Restaurants | 11 Comments »
When Bloodwood opened earlier this year, and everyone rushed to declare “casual dining” as the hot new thing in Sydney, I felt a tad skeptical. Bloodwood is great, but can a trend really exist when Exhibit A only holds one example? Well, since March, we’ve seen the opening of Berta, Eathouse Diner, District Dining and […]
March 7th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Restaurants | 11 Comments »
Sometimes things seem to happen in hyperspeed. You go from never having heard of a place and within a day, countless highly food-savvy people are happily talking it up. The place is Bloodwood in Newtown and though it’s only been open a week, it’s already gotten online endorsement from Gourmet Traveller’s Pat Nourse, TwoThousand’s Alex […]
October 8th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Restaurants | 7 Comments »
If there are songs that you play over and over again, there are also recipes that can possess you like an unstoppably catchy number. This year, my high-rotation favourite has to be a certain noodle dish, courtesy of cookbook writer Kanou Kumiko (also, known as Yumiko Kano/Yumiko Kanoh), but I never would’ve discovered it if […]