February 27th, 2013 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Shops | 1 Comment »
Good news – the Real Food Pop-Up has re-emerged, this time in Newtown. The store first appeared late last year in Darlinghurst, focusing on hand-crafted, locally made and sustainable goods – think honey collected from nearby suburbs (The Urban Beehive) or muesli made in Surry Hills (Farmer Jo). Real Food is now making a welcome […]
September 25th, 2012 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Restaurants | 4 Comments »
Who doesn’t love an all-purpose chocolate shop? At Josophan’s new city store, which opened last month, you can find spiced drinking chocolate, nut-encased blocks, colour-splattered slabs of cocoa and, importantly, The Best Ice Cream Topping In The World (made of wafer balls, multi-flavoured chocolate pebbles and other crunchy, scoop-enhancing ingredients). There are also chocolate lollipops […]
July 15th, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
The window display is full of multi-colour pasta strands spilling out like uncontrollable ribbons. The colour spectrum runs from chilli-red tagliolini to spinach-green fettucine. And, for the very first time I’ve walked past it, it’s actually open (a fact that says more about my anti-social weekend sleeping patterns than the shop’s hours). Of course, I […]