FOOD & DRINK, ARTS & CULTURE, LIFE & TRAVEL
Sydney’s latest inner-city dining oasis opened this week. From the group that brought you Butler and The Botanist, Applejack’s latest venue, the sophisticated Bopp & Tone, doesn’t disappoint.
Campari Red Nights are back in Sydney this September right in the heart of Sydney at the food and drinks hub that is the ivy by Merivale. Starting tonight, for four weeks, Campari Red Nights will turn ivy’s Pool Club into a red Italian Riviera where you’ll enjoy live music, street art, dancers and smash Campari cocktails and drinks like it’s your last night on earth. From 5pm every Friday, Pool Club and Ash Street Cellar will be providing guests with classic Campari-based drinks like the timeless Campari Soda ($10), a Pineapple Americano ($15), the bold Negroni ($15) and the sweet Milano Sbagliato ($15). Check out the Pool Club’s aperitivo and pizza menus if you get peckish. The official launch party is on September 21, from 5pm ’til late. Mon 17th September, 2018 – Fri 12th October, 2018 Ivy Precinct 330 George Street, Sydney
If you love carbs, then prepare to panic – Salt Meats Cheese is opening another restaurant in Sydney. But this time, Cronulla. Think all the pastas, all the cheese wheels, and all of the Italian food goodness that has quickly and conveniently made the family-owned name one of the Sydney canon when it comes to simple deliciousness in the city’s hot spots. The new digs is an 87-seater restaurant serving their signature pizzas, pastas, antipasti, desserts and cocktails. Inside the heritage-listed Commonwealth Bank building on Ocean Grove, the restaurant is a welcome addition to the group’s growing portfolio of six restaurants and cooking classes, with more venues set to open in Sydney and Brisbane in the coming months. Cousins Edoardo Perlo and Stefano De Blasi, who founded Salt Meats Cheese in 2012, four years after moving to Sydney from Northern Italy, are passionate about opening new restaurants in neighbourhoods with a strong sense of community. Cronulla proved the ideal backdrop for their next venture; the coastal town reminiscent of their childhood in Liguria. Complete with big open windows, you’re able to see the large open fire kitchen and a six seater bar, complete with arched cabinets housing the vast array of bottles that make up their uncomplicated and delicious cocktail, spritz and wine menus. Couple that with their famous pizza and pasta menu which combines locally sourced and imported authentic Italian ingredients with a passion for honest homestyle cooking and you’re worted in the southern burbs. The seasonal changing menu will feature a number of Salt Meats Cheese classics, including the Tagliolini… Read More
When it comes to Italian treats in Sydney, there’s really only one name to know. Cremeria De Luca is the family owned and operated – in true Italian style – Italian gelato place over in Five Dock, NSW that does so much more than gelato. They’ve quickly moved from the favourite Sicilian treat to a whole lot of everything else, making a quick name and loyal following for themselves with their now renowned gelato brioche burger, which, yes, is every bit as devilishly good as it reads. This Sunday at the City of Canada Bay’s annual Italian street fair, Ferragosto, Cremeria De Luca will be serving-up its gelato from an age old recipe, gelato brioche burgers, It’s the national Italian holiday that celebrates the middle of summer, so it only makes sense for you to head along armed with nothing but cash, an empty stomach and an open mind as you eat, drink, spend and enjoy yourself silly around the six-hour-long festival. What’s happening at the Five Dock Ferragosto this year From 10am to 4pm, performances, cooking demonstrations, vintage Italian cars like Ferraris, Fiats and Alfas, kids’ activities and food stalls will line the streets. Sagra della Granita: Canada Bay Council will be working together with Cremeria De Luca to bring the first Sagra della Granita, a stand dedicated to celebrate the wonderful Sicilian Granita in all its glory. There will be a degustation of granitas available at stand 23-24 served all day. Arancini everywhere: They’ll be serving savoury traditional Sicilian arancini, fried iris sweet buns filled with Nutella,… Read More
