Reviews
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The Savoury Dining
Food & Drink Reviews
The Savour Dining North Strathfield is the next restaurant review by Jackie McMillan on Sydney Scoop. -
Hà Nội Quán
Food & Drink Reviews
Jackie McMillan takes us on her next Sydney culinary adventure, this time to Beamish Street Campsie -
Vernon's Bar Summer Hill
Food & Drink Reviews
Vernon's Bar sits above One Penny Red in Summer Hill’s former post office. Written across mirrors and chalkboards, the drinks list is extensive. -
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Toast
Food & Drink Reviews
Toast Pambula is a popular cafe and food store on the main street of Pambula. The central table creates intimacy with low hanging bamboo lamp shades encouraging local women to share confidences over lunch. From a chalkboard special, the strawberry… -
TELEPORT : Enlightenment
Arts & Entertainment Reviews
Step into a fictional alien world called Eden-6 that’s been created at Central Railway Station as visitors are taken on a journey that blends sound, projection and sensory kinetics. Now in it’s second month continuing through… -
Wild Orchid
Food & Drink Reviews
Wild Orchid is Tathra’s it-cafe. Across the road from the town’s beautiful white sand beach, it employs sandy blonde wood and fishing basket lights to create a natural yet minimalist space. It’s well-patronised during daylight hours, with co… -
The Oyster Farmer’s Daughter
Food & Drink Reviews
Set on the banks of the aquamarine Wagonga Inlet, the outdoor, shipping container bar of The Oyster Farmer's Daughter is the perfect place to partake in the bounty of the local waters with libation to ease its passage. -
Candelo General Store + Cafe
Food & Drink Reviews
Big on charm, Candelo General Store and Cafe delivered everything I want from a cafe. Housed in a striking setting dating back to 1904, it could easily have relied upon “ye olde” charm rather than well-made coffees, and an interesting breakfa… -
Gundog
Arts & Entertainment Reviews
REVIEW: Playwright Simon Longman is not letting anyone off with an easy resolution. Michelle East gives us the low down on this Sydney Secret House production at Kings Cross Theatre. -
AURORA @ Liberty Hall
Arts & Entertainment Reviews
Being a child prodigy is never easy. The third album can be a curse. AURORA signals a progression from art-folk-pop to synth-pop on The Gods We Can Touch. At Liberty Hall this week, they show they can pull this off with Cure for me w… -
Valentina Merimbula
Food & Drink Reviews
With another excellent oyster lease view of Merimbula, the (now-hatted) Valentina Merimbula is exactly what a regional fine diner should be. Set upstairs in a tiny brick arcade the dining room is surprisingly well kitted out. There is a white Pueb… -
Nordic Moods and Baroque Echoes
Arts & Entertainment Reviews
Nordic Moods and Baroque Echoes is a celebration of all things Swedish by The Marais Project and Duo Langborn/Wendel. -
Kara's Vanguard Pride Soiree
Arts & Entertainment Reviews
Headlining is live singing drag queen, Kara Zmatiq - as seen on Australia’s Got Talent - in an interactive and incredibly erotic drag circus cabaret, bringing the best of Australian circus, dance and drag to The Vanguard in Newtown! -
Tidal Restaurant & Wine Bar
Food & Drink Reviews
Tidal Restaurant & Wine Bar in Merimbula attracts nearly all five star Google reviews, many from faceless reviewers who haven’t included a photo or reviewed anything else. Many “recommend” the place, comment on the “table service” rather… -
Meet Me In The Bathroom
Arts & Entertainment Reviews
Meet Me In The Bathroom "shines as a cultural history of a particular liminal moment in American history" writes Michelle East. -
Queen Chow Narooma
Food & Drink Reviews
Queen Chow replaced the standout restaurant at The Whale Inn after Justin Hemmes (Merivale group) bought out the retro 17-room motel in June 2021. After purchasing a house in the area, Hemmes bought up big, also taking over the wharfside bar, Quar… -
Broadwater Oysters
Food & Drink Reviews
After a swim in the pristine waters of the Pambula River mouth take a journey up river to Pambula Lake. Broadwater Oysters sits on its western banks facing a row of bobbing oyster punts and the oyster leases behind them. Tacked onto the end of the… -
Twelfth Night or What You Will
Arts & Entertainment Reviews
Launching myself in full swing like some sort of “man-spider” between the fractilian spires which jut into the Annandale skyline and look down over the inner west, a pattern emerges from above. That of comedies and errors, that of ado caused o… -
Ensemble Offspring Avante Garde House Concert
Arts & Entertainment Reviews
Sydney contemporary music fans were enraptured with the intimate offering provided by Ensemble Offspring in the February house concert Avante Gardens 1 in Redfern. Now an annual Sydney musical experience, Sydney Scoop hurried to buy our tic…