Food & Drink Reviews

  • Takam

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Even for a regular consumer of Filipino food, Takam felt exciting. This Darlinghurst cafe-restaurant takes the all-important next step in widening the audience for Pinoy cuisine by condensing the wide, disparate array of dishes or…

  • Bread, Espresso & Gwynneville

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    The cafe menu at Bread, Espresso & Gwyneville reads simply enough. First sitting on the bench against the wall, and making our brunch choices - to be truthful there were no great expectations. Yet this bright, sparkling clean and …

  • White Rabbit Marrickville

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Sydney Scoop trusted cafe reviews continue with this 2024 appraisal by Jackie McMillan of White Rabbit Marrickville.

  • Review: Rosie’s Proper Fish & Chips

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    Jackie McMillan heads to Coledale for this review of 'proper fish 'n' chips' at Coledale an easy drive south of Sydney.

  • Bistro Nido

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    Regent Place Sydney is the latest location for restaurant reviewer Jackie McMillan. Here's her report on Bistro Nido.

  • Miss Arda

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Jackie McMillan visits NSW South Coast Kiama Cafe Miss Arda, and reports on her latest eating out discovery.

  • Toei

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Jackie McMillan continues the Sydney Scoop discovery tour of Asian fusion restaurants with her next destination, Toei Surry Hills.

  • Alma's Currarong Kombi Cafe

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Laying on the charm, Alma's Currarong Kombi Cafe is a family-run affair operated from the garage of the Borbilas family home. On weekends, between the hours of 8am and noon, you can partake of cakes and baked goods from a series o…

  • Barbicrew

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Jackie McMillan reports on her latest Sydney discovery: Brazilian Barbiecrew BBQ restaurant and catering.

  • Fusion Afro Caribbean Cafe & Restaurant

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    Sometimes the best things get relegated to the most liminal of spaces. You’ll find Fusion Afro Caribbean Cafe & Restaurant at the end of a dead end street in an industrial estate that backs onto the railway line. Fringing palms …

  • Beverly Hills 888

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    San nin faai lok! There is a bit of a 1990s Golden Century vibe to Beverly Hills 888 Classic Chinese Seafood Restaurant, which inclined me to like it right away. The interior is a clean, bright white with splashes of colour. Down one side, a serie…

  • Bottom of the Barrel BBQ

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    Jackie McMillan shares the unexpected location for the best Texan BBQ she has eaten in Sydney. And here's her review...

  • Kurumba

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    Making the jump from Sri Lankan cafe to restaurant, Kurumba takes up where The Fold in Dulwich Hill left off. The narrow, two-storey Surry Hills terrace squeezes in a pale green bar downstairs, and a dusky pink dining room above. …

  • Bob Hawke Leisure Centre

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    Born under Whitlam, it was actually Prime Minister Bob Hawke I most remember from being a kid. Hawke re-set the standard for Aussie masculinity: he loved his beer, thought strict bosses were bums; and cried on the telly when his family got in stri…

  • Longshore

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    The server gives the whole roasted John Dory on the bone ($70) a big rap, talking us down from the ledge where we were debating adding a grilled Margra lamb rib ($10/each) apiece just so we can do it justice. I’m salivating, picturing the impend…

  • The Naked Baker

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Next in the industrial space cafes, new The Naked Baked Mortdale provides house made pastries, to take home or eat in.

  • Superbear BBQ

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    Chinese barbeque (BBQ) or shaokao comes different forms, but the most famous type comes from the Xinjiang region where the Uyghur people make their famous cumin-dusted lamb. Many regions of China have adopted Xinjiang BBQ, including the Northeast …

  • Marci Lou's Burger Co.

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    There's something about pulling off a busy main road and picking up a take out at a food truck. Marci Lou's Burger Co. is a regular pitstop on my late night way home when I don't take the toll roads. As the name …

  • Walsh Bay Kitchen

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    As it turns out, you can order a la carte from the Walsh Bay Kitchen restaurant menu. Or at least I think so, though I'm still not sure. Sitting next to the Roslyn Packer Theatre, I arrive a good half an hour before my com…

  • Chubby Cheeks

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    Chubby Cheeks opened in Paddington with a bit of a splash in 2018 with a menu created by executive chef David Claesson (ex-Glass Brasserie). The tea smoked duck breast and banana blossom salad ($27) has stayed on the menu since inception. In the h…