Food & Drink Reviews

  • Kurumba

    Food & Drink Reviews
    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

    Food & Drink Reviews
    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

    Food & Drink Reviews
    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

    Food & Drink Reviews
    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.

    Food & Drink Reviews
    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

    Food & Drink Reviews
    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

    Food & Drink Reviews
    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…

  • Zaap by Chang

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Zaap by Chang wasn’t my first foray into Lao or Isan cuisine, so I knew to order Lao sausage ($15) and to avoid asking for extra heat. Dishes from Laos and Thailand’s northeastern corner tend toward being both fiery and sour. The Lao sausage p…

  • Vung Tau Street Food

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Jackie McMillan takes us on her next taste adventure in a street truck journey to Cabramatta for bánh khot.

  • Porkfat

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Choo chee curry comes alive in the hands of the talented kitchen team at Porkfat. The red curry made of long red chillies, fish sauce, makrut leaves and palm sugar is poured over a well-presented deep fried golden pomfret ($49) an…

  • Star Capital Seafood Restaurant

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Being first through the door at Star Capital Seafood Restaurant saw my table for twelve quickly surrounded by trolleys. Steamer baskets of ha gow ($12.80/4), sui mai ($12.80/4) and steamed spinach ($11.80/3) and garlic and chive d…

  • Miss ary

    Food & Drink Reviews
    There’s no need to make the trek to Mount Druitt for Korean street food anymore: Miss ary has opened a bricks’n’mortar store in Strathfield. It’s a second go at a restaurant for owner and chef Giwan Kim and pastry chef Sun …

  • White Rabbit Teahouse

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Simplicity can be refreshing in more than one. Here Jackie McMillan enjoys gallery art with dumplings + tea.

  • Jamaica Vibes Food Hut

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Sometimes the best tingz are found in the weirdest places. Jamaica Vibes Food Hut makes a magnificent curry goat ($19.99). At lunch time you can pick up a small plate of it with rice and beans and salad for twelve bucks. It’s fu…

  • Mira Ve Cafe

    Food & Drink Reviews
    More on Sydney Scoop in the exciting St George food evolution by Jackie McMillan, this time she reviews Colombian in Carlton.

  • 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…