Food & Drink Reviews

  • Miss Lee's

    Food & Drink Reviews
    For a quick’n’dirty Chinese feed in Wollongong, Miss Lee’s certainly looked like the place to be. Plus, it happened to be open on a public holiday... We made two selections from a reasonably extensive but terribly photograph…
  • Pickled Octopus

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Overlooking the Tuross River the elevated open-air dining room of the Pickled Octopus is just the sort of place you want to dine on a holiday. Settle in for sunset and table service upstairs with a bottle of BYO ($12) or buy a buc…
  • Le Salle Dining by Bar Chaplin

    Food & Drink Reviews
    After spending time cooking in Taiwan, chef Patrick Dang has popped up on a back street in Surry Hills. Le Salle by Bar Chaplin is a darkly sophisticated small space for serious diners. It’s neither well signposted nor designed …
  • Ogni

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Indian supermarkets in Harris Park sometimes dispense free pani puri that explode in your mouth with bursts of salty, sweet, sour and hot. Former MasterChef Australia contestant, Sarah Tiong, makes a more muted variation, fuchka ($14) of Bengali o…
  • Octopii

    Food & Drink Reviews
    As the regional NSW summer holiday continues, Jackie McMillan shares her next Sapphire Coast cafe review, Octopii Bermagui.
  • Mossy On Gardens Cafe

    Food & Drink Reviews
    When you don’t eat breakfast out very often, venues need to have something special to lure you in. Mossy on Gardens Cafè derives that it-factor from its location inside the Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Garden. From the o…
  • Q Dining

    Food & Drink Reviews
    "Life can be full of unfilled potential." With expansive windows looking out onto Circular Quay and across Sydney Harbour to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, I can't help but think that Q Dining at the Pullman Hotel is one such example.…
  • Pinky Ji

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Pinky Ji is a riot of colour. Bright red neon lights the way down into a basement dining space swathed in floral garlands. The walls are turmeric; the curved booths are hot pink velour. Even the enamel plate settings and cutlery a…
  • Koshari Korner

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Koshari Korner has also started serving Egyptian street food from its Marrickville food truck at night, on Friday nights and Saturday nights, not just days. It ticks all the right boxes for an affordable cheap and tasty Sydney eat…
  • Omela Cafe

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Omela Cafe brings home-style Malay cooking from Kelantan (a state in the northeast of Malaysia) to the busy corner of Victoria Street and Marrickville Road. While the exterior signage is bright pink, the interior is pretty basic. …
  • Nichi Getsu Do

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Nichi Getsu Do literally translates to sun moon place and it's based off of an old idiom nisshin-geppo: It's meant to reference the sun and moons unrelenting cycles, where progress is achieved through unrelenting passion and commitment. The owners…
  • Baby Dragon Bar

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Another bar adventure from Jackie McMillan, this time her cocktails by Baby Dragon Bar in Enmore.
  • Shaahi Tandoor

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Somehow Shaahi Tandoori has always escaped my attention on Enmore Road. My mistake. Their chicken 65 ($12.90) is like KFC just with actual flavour. I think it was them changing their outdoor signage from red to emerald green that finally drew me i…
  • Tutto Vero

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Legend has it that Pizza Margherita was invented in June 1889 when Raffaele Esposito, the premier pizza maker in Naples at the time created a pizza to honour the visiting Queen Margherita of Savoy. While pizza was known in Naples, it was not a pop…
  • The Spice Route

    Food & Drink Reviews
    The Spice Route is a weekend pop-up at The Stable cafe at Dulwich Hill. Branching out from their daytime offering - that runs from smashed avo. to burgers - on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings they invite guests to journey wit…
  • The Bennelong Bar

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Shocked it had been six years between drinks, Jackie McMillan starts her holiday season 2023 at one of the best spots in town to enjoy a beverage: the Sydney Opera House.
  • Salty's

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Movement in Marrickville has seen Salty’s drop into the former Gong Cha. Before you worry about where you’ll get your interesting beverages from now, Salty’s drink list is pretty impressive. Their salty coffee ($7) - cà phê muối - is a r…
  • Kame House

    Food & Drink Reviews
    You can certainly feel the weight of restaurant reviews at Kame House: Gordon locals are flocking in to try the suburb’s newly hatted spot. They are weighing up options from the succinct 6 item menu based upon what Callan Boys ate. I know this b…
  • Kosta's Takeaway

    Food & Drink Reviews
    To understand the expansion juggernaut of Kosta's Takeaway - which recently opened two stores in Circular Quay and Rosebery less than six mon…