April 16th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Cafes | 3 Comments »
One of the neverending joys of having a food blog is the number of tip-offs you receive from friends, happy to give you joint-custody of one of their favourite cafes. The funny thing is, the exact day that Clare told me about her “must-try” local – Moose in Redfern – the place closed up for […]
February 12th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 8 Comments »
So, Will asked me to keep the weekend before my birthday free and to pack an overnight bag. A weather report was my only clue as to where we were going – “Sunny with a chance of shower”. On the same day we left Sydney, there’d be news reports of flash-floods later that evening. We […]
January 11th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 10 Comments »
Sometimes you can’t reduce why you like something down to one particular reason. Often, you end up overcrowding your explanation with lots of adjectives – the same way you do when justifying a crush to friends (where you talk someone up as “funny, smart, cute, talented, thoughtful” etc etc, piling on the praise until your […]
November 7th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Today I was on Anna Burns’ excellent Weekend Lunch show (on FBI 94.5FM) talking about my favourite Sydney breakfast places. I say ‘favourite’ and not ‘best’, because as soon as you use that word, you end up baiting people into disagreeing. Favourites are a personal thing. Mine are (in no order really):Clipper Cafe, GlebeRuby’s Diner, […]
October 25th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Cafes | 11 Comments »
A brilliant breakfast menu is like a knockout second album by a band you love: different and original enough to leave the critics a little dizzy, but familiar enough to ensure everything that drew you in the first place hasn’t been reprogrammed out of existence. So, you want eggs, sides, toast and the comfort of […]
September 21st, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
The good thing about being sick is getting to laze out with noodle soups for a week. The bad thing is wearing out your favourite ramen recipe. So I switched it up this morning and I made breakfast couscous instead. I took the basics from here – boil 1 cup fruit juice and one tbsp […]
August 31st, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Cafes | 8 Comments »
The folks behind the ever-popular Clipper in Glebe have opened a new cafe in Enmore. A few weeks back, Sally tipped me off about its impending arrival, and with it slated to open near Lisa’s house, all of us had been on new-Clipper-watch for a while. It was meant to open last Monday, but the […]
July 6th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 9 Comments »
Over the years, I’ve kept circling back to Satellite in Newtown. It was Tabitha who introduced me to this cafe, many menus ago. During my uni days, many sleepy weekends were jumpstarted by the mega pile-up that was Satellite’s vego breakfast option. (The mountain of toast and sides was impossible to scale, let alone finish […]
June 29th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
There are always weekends spent moping around the house, wondering how your epic hunger coincides with a Mother Hubbard state of cupboard affairs. And then there are the ones where everything lines up extremely nicely. Blake and Lex had given me a jar of their home-made tomato relish the week before and I had some […]
June 1st, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 16 Comments »
Sometimes you like a cafe from the very first millisecond. And then – several cleared plates, sipped-clean glasses and much cafe-lingering later – your initial instinct is proved right. So here it is, Clipper Cafe in Glebe, my latest big cafe crush. OK, so I didn’t quite stumble into this cute little terrace eatery by […]