Food & Drink Reviews
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Mangkon RD
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… -
Café Ronto
Food & Drink Reviews
You can see the Ottolenghi effect — the championing of vegetables — in the breakfast dishes at Cafe RONTO. True to his time in the UK working under the famous Yottam Ottolenghi, Hungarian-born owner and chef, Gary Ronto, draws from diverse inf… -
Cheng’s Xi’an Traditional Foods, Burwood
Food & Drink Reviews
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… -
Shahi Dining
Food & Drink Reviews
In Rouse Hill, people with Indian ancestry make up 8.2 per cent of the population: well above the NSW (3.2%) and Australian (3.1%) figures. All communities need places to celebrate, and for the Indian diaspora in Rouse Hill, Shahi Dining… -
Joh-Eun-Nal
Food & Drink Reviews
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… -
Salam Café + Restaurant
Food & Drink Reviews
At Salam Cafe & Restaurant in Auburn you can experience their bilateral relationship on a plate between neighbouring Ethiopian and Somali, writes Sydney Scoop restaurant reviewer Jackie McMillan. -
Ikura Canterbury
Food & Drink Reviews
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… -
Co Ba
Food & Drink Reviews
If you've spent as much time in Marrickville as I have, you'd know the 300 metre strip on Illawarra Road between Marrickville Road and Petersham Road serves some of the most accessible Vietnamese cuisine in Sydney. In such a small… -
Self Raised Bread Shoppe
Food & Drink Reviews
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… -
Dunes By Dish
Food & Drink Reviews
With the weather busting straight through early spring and directly into mid-summer, Dunes by Dish was the place to be last weekend. The long, white and plainly furnished dining room gives off a cafeteria vibe bar for the magnificent view. Sitting… -
Sto Lat (Polish Club - Klub Polski)
Food & Drink Reviews
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… -
Osaka Bar
Food & Drink Reviews
While the mini kaiseki menu ($80/head) at Osaka Bar might not fill you up, it’s a chance to get amongst Sydney’s Japanese omakase experiences without the $200+ price tag. Chef Kazu Nakatani also offers you the opportunity to supplement this fi… -
Calico
Food & Drink Reviews
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 … -
The Northeast Restaurant
Food & Drink Reviews
Dishes from north-east of China often use wheat and maize. It was the latter that drew me to The Northeast Restaurant in Kingsford in the form of corn cakes cooked along the edges of their hearty hotpots. Her… -
Kinx Cafe
Food & Drink Reviews
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… -
Whisky Dinner @ Eaton Chinese Restaurant
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Just Liquor Cellars gave me cause to return to Eaton Chinese Restaurant for another of their good value whisky dinners ($110/person). This price included a shared banquet of dishes starting off with giant, gently … -
Food Tour Hải Phòng
Food & Drink Reviews
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 … -
Envy Deli Cafe
Food & Drink Reviews
Envy Deli Cafe was a somewhat shocking return to Sydney prices after three and a half weeks on Pasifikan islands. Even without a mortgage, adding some m… -
Philippines Heroes Day Market
Food & Drink Reviews
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 … -
Sala Dining
Food & Drink Reviews
Amid the gloom and doom of interest rate rises and the cost of living crisis, there has been something of a dining renaissance taking place. Sala Dining represents a return to Sydney’s dining heyday, where fine dining was about a sense of…