Category: FOOD & DRINK

Newtown Good Food Fair is back on in Sydney this October

Newtown Food Fair

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Posted: 17/09/2018

The 2018 Newtown Good Food Fair is being held on Sunday 14th October. Time to get your Doc’s out. Bigger than ever before, they’re bringing back over 30 food and drink stallholders showcasing the diverse offering in the Newtown precinct. It’s been running for six years now and is fully about the community, allowing it to take over Newtown Square and Eliza Street to celebrate the suburb’s eclectic offering and community spirit. For one day only, you can sample your way through Newtown, relishing on fare by the likes of Queen Chow, Mary’s, Acre, Black Star Pastry and Gelato Messina, washed down with the best booze offerings by Young Henry’s, Solotel and P&V Wine and Liquor Merchants. Live music and an 8,000 strong guest list will ensure an authentic street party vibe. Here are the deets… When: Sunday 14 October 2018 Where: Food stalls – Newtown Square and Eliza Street, beverage stalls – Eliza Street only Time: Start 11.00 am, Finish 4.00 pm Newtown Square / 6.00 pm Eliza Street

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Salt meat cheese sydney: Italian food gods Salt Meats Cheese has opened in Cronulla

Salt meat cheese sydney

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Updated: 19/11/2022

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

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Four chefs will host a four course dinner for kids’ charity

Run for Kids celebrity chefs

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Updated: 18/09/2018

Celebrity chefs, James Metcalfe and Justin North together with Shariq Hassan and Jaci Koludrovic will host an interactive and decadent four course ‘Run For Kids’ charity dinner on Wednesday 19th September at the Sailmaker Restaurant, Hyatt Regency Sydney. And the best bit is, you can go, too. They’re trying to raise over $50,000 with all proceeds donated to Variety Australia to help disadvantaged children have a fair go in life. Complete with an auction on the night, you can win a spa package at Byron at Byron, beautiful 18ct white gold pendant from Diamond Traders, tailored sports and lifestyle packages and a bespoke champagne workshop at Mr Percy’s at Ovolo Hotel in Darling Harbour. Four chefs, four courses, each dish will be beautifully paired with premium local wines, featuring Mollydooker ‘The Boxer’ and Fox Creek Chardonnay: Shariq Hassan – Canapes Justin North – Entree James Metcalfe – Main Jaci Koludrovic – Dessert The ‘Run For Kids’ dinner marks the launch of the chefs’ fundraising efforts for Variety ahead of Justin’s additional challenge to conquer the world-renowned New York Marathon this November. WHAT: Run For Kids Dinner – presented by JRM and Concept Hospitality Four Chefs, Four Courses, for fun! WHEN: Wednesday 19 September, 2018 Arrivals from 6.30pm WHERE: Sailmaker Restaurant, Hyatt Regency Sydney 161 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000 WHO: Justin North: Concept Hospitality James Metcalfe: JRM Get tickets here.

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Lunch at Frogmore Creek outside Hobart’s the best you’ll do

Frogmore Creek winery door

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Updated: 16/11/2022

Frogmore Creek is nice. I’m fact, it’s better-than-nice; it’s an institution in Tasmania and only 20 minutes from town. It’s the privately owned and operated little producer of a veritable tonne of wines and varying wine labels to come out of our fair Southern state since it first came about. The Frogmore Creek name is synonymous a quality drop, but have you been to the winery? Just over the Tasman Bridge from Hobart and out of town by car for about 20 minutes, the winery sits on a little road, overlooking a helluva lot of vines and in the far distance, the largest space program in the country, the Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory. If you’re patient enough, so see the gargantuan satellite dish oscillate throughout the day. But it’s not the Frogmore location, or view that sets them a bottle above the rest, it’s what they do; their ‘bread ‘n’ butter’ as it were; their lifeblood – wine. Lauded as one of Tasmania’s host awarded wine makers, Frogmore is known for its 42 Degrees South, Single Block Series, Winemakers Reserve and Frogmore Creek label, of course, offering a wide and hugely varied set of premium varietals that can be found all over the country. All made, processed and shipped-out on-site they’re a huge operation, but where they really shine – if food’s your thing – is the restaurant at the cellar door. About the Frogmore Creek restaurant and cellar door They do tastings, of course, of the whole range and everyone behind the bar is… Read More

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Roku gin has launched a new range and it’s everything your collection needs

Roku kimono

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Posted: 06/09/2018

The House of Suntory (yes, the legendary whisky distiller) has launched a craft gin called ‘Roku’, meaning six in Japanese. The ‘six’ refers to the number of unique, local Japanese botanicals (yuzu, sencha tea, sakura leaf, sakura flower, sansho pepper and gyokuro tea) used to create this perfectly balanced gin which complement the eight traditional botanicals used in traditional gin (juniper berry, coriander seed, angelica root, cardamom seed, angelica seed, cinnamon, bitter orange peel and lemon peel). The gyokuro tea introduces the element of ‘umami’, or ‘deliciousness’ generally found in savoury foods. Distilled at Suntory’s distillery in Osaka, this gin is not your traditional gin as there is less emphasis on the juniper. Considered more of a ‘contemporary’ gin, hints of sakura (cherry blossom) and yuzu unfold when taking your first sip. You’d be forgiven for not knowing that Suntory has actually been creating gin since 1936, but with the latest gin-craze taking over the nation’s bars and liquor supermarkets, the launch of Suntory’s latest craft gin is well-timed. Priced at approximately $55 for a 700ml bottle, the bottle is labelled with traditional Japanese washi paper with beautiful bold calligraphy – very clean, simple and minimalist packaging. Roku was first released for the Japanese market in July 2017, and has progressively been released worldwide over the last year. It will be interesting to watch how the Australian market takes to this new style of craft gin. Those who prefer a tipple with floral and citrus tones will find Roku deliciously refreshing, especially in the warmer… Read More

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Redfern Surf Club opens and locals are as into it as they are confused

Redfern Surf Club 1

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Updated: 16/11/2022

Because Redfern is so known for it’s pristine white sand, crystal blue oceans, exponential horizons and endless supply of beach-goers, it only made sense for the place to open right in the thick of it all, the corner of Henderson and Botany Road. The new Redfern Surf Club is all the bits of Redern you love in one, complete with classic, fun bevvies with free popcorn and an inclusive, unpretentious approach to service. It’s the baby of Yannick Maslard, who used to be the manager of The Cliff Dive and Oxford Art Factory, so it’s got something good going on. Yannick and his pals wanted a place that stayed true to the ‘local’ that everyone has in their own community, right in the heart of the suburb, accessible all the time. That’s the spirit of the surf club. “We built the bar we all wanted to hang out in,” says Maslard, speaking for an extended family of Sydney hospitality regulars and friends who have chipped in to overhaul the sun-drenched, heritage-listed space – once a bank, and most recently a chook shop. Wielding paint brushes and power tools, a team of good mates have donated their time and creativity to help transform the former Grill King site into a lush indoor courtyard with a collection of curiosities and an enviable supply of plants. The walls have photos and paintings combined with surfing paraphernalia and a pool table. It’s about lazy summer holidays down the coast, right in the middle of town. It’s casual, easy and welcoming. They… Read More

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These are the culinary women in food you need to know this Sydney Good Food Month 2018

Salopian Inn lamb

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Posted: 02/09/2018

Sydney Good Food Month is almost upon us again – and if previous years are anything to go by, it’s going to be good. As usual, the spread is put on by Citi and will celebrate 20 years of unforgettable food events this October 2018. The flavour-packed, talent-filled program is all about influential chefs and restaurants that have helped shape Australia’s culinary landscape and the talent that will define its bright and exciting future. You can get tickets here. There’s a whole bunch of stuff happening this year all over the city, like the 20th Birthday with Sydney Greats at 6:30pm on Thursday 4 October. With the influential chefs who hold a very special place in Sydney’s heart like Australian dining legends Christine Manfield (Paramount, Universal); Neil Perry (Rockpool, Spice Temple) and Ross Lusted (The Bridge Room), it’s going to be good. And when it comes to the ladies, the Culinary Women of Influence event 6:30pm, Thursday 18 October. You can celebrate some of Australia’s incredible culinary women of influence with a three-course dinner created by Alia Glorie, head chef of hatted Perth institution Billie H, Alanna Sapwell from Saint Peter in Sydney, and Karena Armstrong from The Salopian Inn in McLaren Vale. Hosted by Momofuku Seiobo’s talented General Manager, Kylie Javier-Ashton. “I love the fact that we’re beginning to build our own Australian culinary identity,” says Kylie Javier-Ashton from Momofuku Seibo. “In a world where information is instant and limitless, and cultures everywhere are being blended and blurred, it’s ironic to feel like we… Read More

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Beyond Cinema and Tanqueray unite to party like Gatsby

Beyond Cinema Curzon Gatsby Tanqueray 1

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Posted: 30/08/2018

While F. Scott Fitzgerald may have written that you can’t repeat the past, for one night, Beyond Cinema did a pretty good job of it. Their latest in interactive, immersive cinema offerings was a screening of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby at Marsfield’s elegant and sprawling Curzon House, positively drenched with Tanqueray gin. Offering guests the chance to watch the film, dine on a three-course meal in Gatsby’s Great Hall, and be entertained by performers of all kinds – from acrobats to Charleston dancers – while sipping on Tanqueray cocktails and partying like Gatsby himself; The Great Gatsby joins Beyond Cinema’s other productions of Titanic and Alice In Wonderland as a night to truly remember. Tanqueray peppered Curzon House with four seperate bars, serving signature Gin Fresh Apple Martinis upstairs and classic gin and tonics on the lawn, while also offering guests the chance to mix moonshine with actors recreating the New Jersey underworld downstairs in the speakeasy bar. If your appetite for adventure wasn’t sated by viewing the film and then watching key scenes recreated live over dinner, you could join one of many swing and blues bands – or a DJ – for a spot of the Charleston yourself. Amongst all of this were contortionists, firebreathers, and even a lady in a martini glass – along with a whole crew of performers whose New Jersey accidents and on-key costumes were enough to make you think that you really had stepped back in time for a minute. If this all sounds like your cup… Read More

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