August 5th, 2013 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Favourites, Restaurants | 1 Comment »
Here’s the quick version: Ester is a new restaurant in Chippendale, backed by the guys behind Vini, Berta and 121BC. It’s run by Mat Lindsay, and before you go in, you suspect it’ll end up with a high scorecard. After all, this chef used to be at 121BC (Kristen Allan raved about his food at […]
July 9th, 2013 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
What’s it like to stage a dinner in the back lot of Opera Australia? Or throw a random soup party in a park and hope you don’t get busted? Kristen Allan would know, as these are some of the guerilla culinary events she’s organised with Full Circle (the team that also ran The Eat In […]
June 14th, 2010 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »
If you’re a fan of Vini, the wonderful (and squeezy) Italian wine bar in Surry Hills, then you should be excited about Berta. This new joint is also run by Andrew Cibej (who, aside from starting Vini and masterminding Berta, also has a bar-plus-wine-shop scribbled down on his 2010 to-do list). Berta is located on […]
January 1st, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
For a lot of people, the best thing about work is the lunch hour. And you can tell a lot by how someone spends it – whether they’re eating heated-up leftovers “al desko”, mentally finetuning the perfect sandwich combination to order at the local cafe, or really splashing out and going beyond their allocated $8 […]