Food & Drink Reviews

  • 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…
  • Gou Sushi ~ BYO wine only

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Maybe Jackie McMillan should have kept this sushi omikase a secret, yet here it is - her Sydney Scoop best restaurants review.
  • Sonora

    Food & Drink Reviews
    The next Sydney Mexican restaurant adventure by Jackie McMillan is Sonora Kings Cross (Potts Point).
  • La Bottega

    Food & Drink Reviews
    La Bottega offers all-day breakfast and lunch in an attractive indoor-outdoor setting in Leichhardt. Their footprint includes some coveted and well-spaced tables in a raised courtyard set back from busy Norton Street. Relaxing on …
  • Maggie's

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Jackie McMillan revisits a Kings Cross institution, for Austrian German fare at Maggie's restaurant.