March 2nd, 2017 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
2016 Good Food Guide Chef of the Year (and one-time skilled marksman for the Finnish army) Pasi Petanen was done with pop-ups. He’d scored plenty of acclaim for his one-off Cafe Paci restaurant – which was only meant to stick around for a year, but got extended to two and a half years by popular […]
December 31st, 2015 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Favourites, Latest, Restaurants | Leave A Comment »
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 […]
July 22nd, 2014 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Podcasts | 1 Comment »
Hanz Gueco has discovered some pretty surprising things as a chef. Orange juice can be the best part of a $300 meal. You can get sent home for the most unusual reason when working in Japan. And there’s a sneaky way to get around America’s legal drinking age of 21 that does not involve a […]
August 26th, 2013 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Favourites, Restaurants | Leave A Comment »
If you look for Cafe Paci in Darlinghurst, you’ll find it at the old Cafe Pacifico site – the neon sign is still there, minus the last few letters. What’s been subtracted is no big deal, because what Pasi Petanen has added is phenomenal. It easily qualifies as one of the best new restaurants I’ve […]