September 1st, 2017 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Favourites, Latest, Restaurants | 4 Comments »
Madre in Marrickville opened last week and already qualifies as my new favourite pizza place. Maybe I’m a fast mover or maybe I was always pre-destined to be in its fan club, as this new eatery is from the excellent team behind Two Chaps – a venue I’m always happy to cheerlead for. Like its […]
May 30th, 2016 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Cafes, Latest | 3 Comments »
“Everything dies on Enmore Road!” That’s what Piero Pignatti Morano was (cheerily) told when he set up his latest cafe, El Chapel. A local helpfully pointed out the high mortality rate of all the businesses that had optimistically tried to set up on this unforgiving stretch of Marrickville. I’m gunning for El Chapel to get […]
December 1st, 2015 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Favourites, Latest, Restaurants | Leave A Comment »
Two Chaps in Marrickville is one of my favourite places for dinner right now. You’re given such an insanely generous amount of food that you wonder if the waiter might secretly be your grandmother – you know, the kind that sees empty plates as their arch-enemy. The set menu here is rustic, Italian and such […]
May 8th, 2013 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Cafes | 1 Comment »
Just to prove that the inner west is currently overachieving on the “great new eatery” front, West Juliett has been an excellent addition to Marrickville since it opened in March. It was on my “to check out” list after Kate Walsh from Real Food Projects mentioned it as a place worth taking notice of; and […]
December 28th, 2011 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Cafes | 10 Comments »
The first day that Cornersmith opened, the cafe managed to smoke out everyone I know from their nearby homes. Most new places are slow to be discovered, but this joint was full-blaze packed from the start. Maybe it says something about the pent-up hunger for a good new place to get coffee and breakfast in […]
September 22nd, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
Even though the warmer spring weather we’re hoping for seems to be running behind schedule (like a band going through a spectacularly long sound-check), there’s one consolation – the Passionfruit Meringues ($5) at Bourke Street Bakery. These started to appear, about a month or so ago, in the counter displays of the Marrickville branch. The […]
September 20th, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
So I haven’t been doing the Burger Dance (like these Lego dudes hopped up on patties-and-buns obviously are) but today I kick-started a food segment on Weekend Lunch, the FBI radio show presented by the amazing Anna Burns. Today we had our first go (or “first course”) and it was a lot of fun. Running […]