June 20th, 2020 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
Natalie Paull once pointed a brûlée torch flame in the wrong direction – and accidentally set a whole docket rail of dessert orders on fire. She’s endured brownie explosions and baking disasters, too. But people rightly associate Natalie with oven-baked triumphs – like the brilliant sweets from her popular Beatrix bakery in Melbourne. Think passionfruit […]
July 23rd, 2019 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
Eating near a nuclear submarine base on a Chinese island and dining with Tamil tea pickers in Sri Lanka – these are some of the memorable meals that Ardyn Bernoth and Roslyn Grundy have experienced over the years. Given their many years covering food (Ardyn is currently the national editor of Good Food, Ros is […]
June 19th, 2019 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
You don’t need a roof or floor to run a great restaurant – that’s what Hugh Allen learnt while working at Noma’s Mexico pop-up. And yes, there were issues. “If it rained, the guests had to come sit in the kitchen,” he says. Simple things, like boiling water, became a mission that could take hours. […]
March 7th, 2019 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
Would you line up at two AM in zero-degree weather, just for a croissant? People would regularly do that all the time, purely for the chance to try Kate Reid’s pastries. The New York Times, after all, said her croissants are “the finest you will find anywhere in the world, and alone worth a trip […]
December 17th, 2018 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
People actively smuggle Smith & Deli‘s food onto planes – that’s how addictive the dishes are. Interstate regulars even bring their own Tupperware containers and cooler bags, so they can enjoy the food at home. That’s the power of what Shannon Martinez, Mo Wyse and El Rosa are doing at the popular Melbourne vegan deli […]
December 22nd, 2017 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
Morgan McGlone’s fried chicken has scored a standing ovation. At an event run Noma’s René Redzepi, no less. Feeding the top chefs at MAD, the famous Copenhagen food symposium, is just one of many memorable instances of Morgan’s eventful career. Long before he launched Belles Hot Chicken, Morgy started out cooking for huge volumes of Japanese […]
October 22nd, 2017 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
“The chef said he was going to the bank and never came back.” Shannon Martinez was working as a bartender at The East Brunswick hotel in Melbourne when she was asked to take over the kitchen. She happened to put a vegan parma on the menu and it blew up – the pub sold close […]
September 6th, 2015 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Travel | 3 Comments »
There’s no shortage of proof that Attica in Melbourne is an astounding, standard-setting restaurant. It’s still Australia’s highest-ranked entry in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list; bookings for two for the entirety of December disappeared in 43 seconds flat when reservations recently opened for that month; and the most respected international chefs endlessly act as […]
December 31st, 2014 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Restaurants, Travel | 2 Comments »
If you’re gonna compile a 2014 highlight reel of Sydney dining, Mary’s CBD outlet has to score a top-ranking spot. Broadsheet was dropping intel about the new takeaway branch way back in July, and anticipation was as supersized as the mega Breakfast Burger ($12) that made it onto the eventual menu. Mary’s city branch opened […]
January 24th, 2014 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Podcasts, Travel | Leave A Comment »
This post is brought to you by a lack of sleep! And some semi-news … I recently unleashed some new podcasts. If you’d like the audio company, you can listen to me chat to: Andrew Levins, who accidentally became a one-man media-storm over the last day or so, thanks to Barry O’Farrell’s ill-advised lockout laws. […]