Food & Drink Reviews

You might associate chewy fried turnip cakes more with Chinese cuisine than Thai, but borders are porous, and just like Sydney, Bangkok has its own Chinatown where locally-geared hybrid dishes are created. You can eat rice cake seafood ($24.90) at…

Now that I no longer travel as much as I used to, one of my pleasures in life is going to a restaurant I've never been to before that caters to the local community, and very much like if I were doing this abroad, trying to work out what to order i…

Lidcombe has a bewildering array of Korean restaurants located in a relatively small, double-sided shopping strip on the south side of the station. With convenient angle parking as well as a multi-storey car park, it’s easy to s…

Don’t let the big burst of lobster salad catch you unawares as you bite into a crisp zucchini flower ($12/2) at Ikura Canterbury. They were my meal highlight at this tiny new Japanese fusion restaurant in Canterbury, though spurting bright orang…

The suburbs can surprise you. Carlton isn’t particularly known for its eateries, but Self Raised Bread Shoppe is attracting people from far and wide. This bakery-cafe is the brainchild of Sal Sanan and siblings, Amani and Hussein Rachid. If youâ…

Three weeks after the late completion of their whole building renovation, Sto Lat, at the Polish Club/ Klub Polski Ashfield, is cooking at the top of its game. This complete rebuild, said to have cost something in the tune of $72 million, sees the…

Set on a sunny corner in Redfern, Calico puts the hospitality back into all-day venues. We were greeted and seated the second we walked in the door. Despite it being a busy Saturday lunch, staff emitted a relaxed vibe, taking time at the table to …

You often hear that Australia doesn't have a distinct cuisine. It's easy to take this at face value in a nation of immigrants since it's hard to pinpoint an actual national dish, and overseas visitors only hear about vegemite and meat pies. In Ame…

Clean bright white light has been injected into a Canterbury strip mall that I’d previously categorised as dying. Food Tour Hải Phòng is a Northern Vietnamese restaurant, and so new, they still have their congratulatory grand opening flowers …

Smoke plumes billowing from the Skyline Drive-In and the surrounding traffic chaos made the site look a bit like a war zone. As you slowly inched your way closer, the aroma of inihaw—Pinoy BBQ—clued you in that it was celebratory smoke rather …