November 21st, 2015 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Favourites, Latest | Leave A Comment »
FBi Radio announced its nominees for its SMAC (Sydney Music Arts and Culture) Awards this week. I’m really thrilled with the shortlist for Best Eats, which was (with much difficulty, given all the amazing contenders!) narrowed down to this line-up of local greats. With some co-conspirators at FBi, we’ve nominated the following talents. Here are […]
May 18th, 2013 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Cafes | Leave A Comment »
We’ve all spent time in Gelato Messina, overexamining the flavours on display, wondering how the staff comes up with such inventive ideas. Thanks to FBi radio, you have the chance to create your own scoop-worthy concept for that ultra-popular ice-cream cabinet – and if you win, your flavour will be in store from June 7-14 […]
August 9th, 2011 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Zines | 4 Comments »
Hey, here’s a shameless mention of a few things I’m part of. If you turn up to Feast Your Eyes, you’ll find a bar recipe booklet with contributions by Levins (The Dip), Spod, We Buy Your Kids, Jake Stone, Elmo Keep and many more; some of the accompanying illustrations will be available as artwork; there’ll […]
December 5th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
Black Star Pastry Seeing as everyone has gone list-mad, I thought I’d join in on the craziness. For the year’s last segment on Anna Burns’ Weekend Lunch show (on FBI 94.5FM), I gathered a few favourite picks from some food-savvy people to read on-air. The idea was to spotlight the best places that had opened […]
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 3rd, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
This afternoon I was on Anna Burns’ great Weekend Lunch show on FBI 94.5FM talking about the unplating of Sydney International Food Festival. It’s easy to look at what’s on and get program overwhelm, so I singled out a few of the many, many things that are on. If you scooped your hand through the […]
September 5th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Just been on Anna Burns’ great Weekend Lunch show on FBI 94.5FM talking about sweet treats for Spring. We talked about Sweetness, the patisserie that is best-known for its shelves of artisan marshmallows, located on Oxford Street in Epping. And Bacco in Chifley Plaza. And Pocket Bar in Darlinghurst. And the new Bourke Street Bakery […]
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 13th, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Not The Last Supper: the Save FBI cookbook zine is done and ready for you to download! If you’re printing it out, you can download a high-quality cover for it too. It was beautifully designed by Grace Lee. It was quickly put together in a week and features some very great recipes (Sweetie’s Delicious Dumplings, […]
May 22nd, 2009 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »
I know I’ve been a bit of a blog truant, wagging blog posts & missing upload roll call – it’s all because I’m in the middle of finishing zines and fundraising CDRs to sell at the MCA Zine Fair, on this Sunday. I’ll also be selling the awesome food-related art and craft of Grace Lee. […]