There are plenty of reviews about The Woods Restaurant that wax lyrical about summers spent swatting mosquitoes and cooking over camp fires. They draw tenuous links due to the raging fire that adds smoke and caramelized edges to most of the menu at The Woods but let's be perfectly clear -- a trip to consulting chef Hamish Ingham's restaurant is nothing like camping, roughing it, or cooking anything in the wilderness. This is by no means a bad thing. The Woods is nestled in The Four … [Read more...]
Booth St Bistro – Annandale, Sydney
We all have them sitting somewhere in the draft folder - or perhaps just floating around our heads - the favourite little cafe, the go-to easy dinner recipe, the brilliant new cookbook or appliance or spice mix. The things that we should share but somehow always push aside to do some other day. Enter Booth St Bistro in Annandale, a regular on our weekend brunch rotation. I take photos every time we go with the intention to share it here, yet for some reason it always gets pushed to the … [Read more...]
High Tea at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth Hotel
Afternoon Tea has evolved in modern times. A tradition started by the British to bridge the gap between lunch and a late dinner, it is now more synonymous with a special outing or occasion than an every day indulgence. Afternoon Tea is labeled as High Tea in many instances, a moniker that purists stamp their feet at due to, from what I can gather, the nature of the seating arrangement more than anything else. In the simplest of terms however there is tea, there are sandwiches, there … [Read more...]
WIN Tickets to Taste of Sydney 2013!
You know I love a good food festival and Taste of Sydney is a great one. Set in Sydney's Centennial Park there is an impressive roster of some of the best restaurants in Sydney each serving up two to three signature dishes. Demos, feature attractions and celebrity chefs every way you look, and even exhibition tents where you can discover products over 100 Australian producers. Taste of Sydney 2013 is this weekend, 14-17 March! Last year I not only ended up as the sole photographer for the … [Read more...]
Spiced Sultana (Raisin) & Onion Chutney
Food inspires me. I think about it all.the.time. perpetually jotting down ideas and notes for future recipes, testing flavours and combinations and techniques, making things up - mad scientist style - as I go along. Luckily RJ is a willing participant and occasional ring-leader, tasting my creations, discussing over breakfast what we will have or for lunch or dinner, detouring in foreign countries for specific dishes. All this leads us back [well for this post at least] to a dinner we had at … [Read more...]
Restaurant Atelier – Glebe, Sydney
Set back from the hustle and bustle of Glebe Point Road, protected just enough by a veranda and front garden to be private, you'll find a wide-frontage house slightly at odds with the surrounding late century commercial properties. The exterior - quaint and unassuming, and the interior - cozy and comfortable, give nothing away to the passerby regarding the food or the chef contained within. Until you sit down, and the dishes begin to march out of the kitchen, you have no idea about the … [Read more...]
2012 Trip’n: First up – Portland
We are a week and a half into our trip and I was once again far too ambitious in my 'I'll just do it on the road' planning. As such, there has been little other than one delicious soup round these parts lately. That said, the relative tranquility [neglect, sorry] is solely due to the fact that RJ and I have been traipsing around the Pacific Northwest, taking Portland by storm and eating as much as possible along the way. Here's a taste of what we've been up to once we landed in LA and hopped on … [Read more...]
