November 30th, 2011 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
From the people who used to make your weekend breakfast great when they ran Baffi & Mo comes … weekend breakfast at Orto Trading Co (a new thing, even though the restaurant has been open since April). Zero surprise: these guys still know how to nail that first meal of the day. You can order good […]
October 25th, 2011 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Cafes | 3 Comments »
The name is a giveaway – coffee is the lifeblood of Wedge Espresso. This new Glebe cafe also does a fine sideline in other sip-worthy drinks: there’s the Ice Milo ($5), with its crunchy landmass of malt grains afloat milk and ice-cream. At the bottom is a genius ground-level layer of Milo – so there’s […]
August 29th, 2011 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Cafes | 6 Comments »
Just when you thought Surry Hills was at maximum cafe capacity, along comes another great new addition: Joe Black. With a mural showing the evolution of human caffeine dependency, this place takes its coffee ultra-seriously. The blackboard offers two Single Origin special brews a day and a house blend, there are take-home packs galore and […]
March 14th, 2011 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 9 Comments »
Surry Hills has long been the natural habitat of the upcoming cafe, but, according to last week’s Good Living, Redfern may be (slowly) taking over. I’m always a little dubious when a suburb is pronounced as ‘hot’ – maybe because it sounds like slimey real-estate speak – but there’s definitely case-supporting evidence for this claim. I […]
January 19th, 2011 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Sometimes deciding what you’d like to eat can lead to an endless loop of counter-arguments. How nice it’d be to just order everything on offer and sort it out according to whim and appetite. With the “Little Brekkies” menu at A Little On The Side in Darlington, with half-serve portions from $5.50 to $9 each, […]
October 10th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
My first introduction to Room 10 in Potts Point was via Twitpic. Last week, Good Living contributor Carli Ratcliff snapped an image, pitched it onto Twitter and talked up the new cafe’s “cracking brekky” and “sensational brews”. Only three weeks old, this XS-sized joint is a new venture for Daniel Jackson, who you may recognise […]
August 30th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
If you’re bored with toast, then head to Bruschetteria 102 in Surry Hills – it will flare up your enthusiasm for grilled bread. As the name suggests, this Italian cafe offers many oil-drizzled variations on bruschetta, with charming and likeable results. If you’re in a breakfast mood, you can get a serve of the Will-approved […]
July 4th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 10 Comments »
I enjoy watching the year change according to, not the calendar, but the blackboard menu at the Luxe Bakery in Newtown. In summer, you could order oxheart-tomatoes, basil and bocconcini, fanned out on sourdough; as the temperature dropped, that disappeared and was replaced with garlicky, roasted-through mushrooms served on a thick, crusty bread-slice, and later, […]
May 18th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 14 Comments »
If you want to max out on breakfast, this is the finest way to do it. Le Monde in Surry Hills has started serving a breakfast degustation. For $25*, you get three inventive courses, two coffees (swappable for tea, if you’re not into ground beans), and multiple amounts of early-morning fun. The fine print though […]
May 10th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »
We had breakfast at Clover this morning with one cool-looking chaperone: Will’s just-purchased Polaroid camera. It’s 30-something years old (but has no hang-ups about its age or career/marital/mortgage status) and managed to make our order look like it’d been served in the ’70s. After being talked out of my usual Baked Beans and Chilli Labne […]