Food & Drink Reviews
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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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
Tathra Beach Kiosk
Food & Drink Reviews
Is there anything more Australian than a beach kiosk turning out bacon and egg rolls ($13) for the early risers? Tathra Beach Kiosk is pretty iconic: just a series of open hatches on a white weatherboard cottage that it shares with Pividori's Tath… -
Petermen
Food & Drink Reviews
To say that North Shore locals were eagerly anticipating the arrival of Petermen would be under-selling it. On night two the St Leonards-based offshoot of Saint Peter was rammed. Bigger than the flagship, Josh Niland’s new restaurant is all blon… -
Sergeant Lok
Food & Drink Reviews
Strong Japanese elements in this contemporary pan-Asian 5-course banquet menu ($98/head)—like an almost-too-pretty-to-eat chawan mushi topped with handpicked crab and caviar bound by ginger dashi—hint at what chef’s next move will be. -
Jinja Restaurant
Food & Drink Reviews
Jinja Restaurant is housed in a venue that expands what you expect from a contemporary pub. The Governor Hotel is located in Macquarie Park inside a fenced com… -
Hai Au Lang Nuong
Food & Drink Reviews
Sydney threw a curve ball at my open-air Saigon-style dining experience at Hai Au Lang Nuong. As we arrived in Canley Vale to music blaring and shuttered windows rolled open for diners to take in the busy streetscape, a storm of epic proportions r… -
Blaq at Kyah
Food & Drink Reviews
In her next adventure Jackie McMillan reviews a refurbished three-wing motel, now called Kyah after one of the Three Sisters, which is cohabiting with a destination dining spot called Blaq. -
Khao • Soi カオ•ソーイ
Food & Drink Reviews
“There is a restaurant in Chiang Mai which is exactly the same,” said Chef Darren Templeman (currently cooking at Sergeant Lok). Our conversation cam… -
Dolly’s Donuts Glenbrook
Food & Drink Reviews
Mark down Dolly’s Donuts as a refuelling stop to power you up and over the Blue Mountains on longer trips, writes Jackie McMillan. -
Kobo
Food & Drink Reviews
Chef Jacob Lee is the creator behind the Quay Quarter Lanes Sydney intimate “Bap Sang” an 8 seat omakase experience. -
Yummy Chilli / Yummy Sichuan
Food & Drink Reviews
Jackie McMillan seeks out the best of new or undiscovered restaurants in Sydney. At Yummy Chilli (Sichuan) she finds the best cumin beef she's eaten since Shanghai. -
Flotilla ~ Newcastle
Food & Drink Reviews
Dusky pink clouds make Wickham a surprisingly inviting place to dine. The pale blue of The Flotilla disappears into the sky. The building’s light indus…