Food & Drink Reviews
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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
Food & Drink Reviews
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… -
Smokin' Al's BBQ
Food & Drink Reviews
Smokin' Al's BBQ faces Rockdale Station. At the front of the shop is a generous wooden table and benches, with napkins in a dispenser, so the punters can eat in. Smokin' Al's BBQ however is ostensibly a take out jo… -
Great Food
Food & Drink Reviews
There's been a rise in Hong Kong style cafes, also known as cha chaan teng's in Sydney the past few years. They usually follow the same formula: a bold and bright aesthetic bordering on kitschy simulating the streets of Hong Kong and a box ticking… -
Beirut Restaurant + Grillz
Food & Drink Reviews
When you think of great Lebanese cuisine in Sydney, what comes to mind? I'd wager you think of "The Area" or Western Sydney. But let me ask if Kogarah has ever crossed your mind? Sitting across from Kogarah station is Beirut Restaurant and Gril… -
Pistou
Food & Drink Reviews
Pistou wine bar and eat in deli sits snuggly on the St Peters end of King Street Newtown. With a distinctively French Provencial feel we were totally enarmour… -
Konger
Food & Drink Reviews
New Asian restaurant Konger, in Victoria Street Potts Point, dishes up premium tasty Asian bites to make any punter happy. Defying the modest outdoor table seating and indoor bar seating, the owner chef creates nibbles of flavour magic to … -
Cafe Freda's
Food & Drink Reviews
Cafe Freda's is the almost grown up evolution of late night underground bar Freda's. And now that it's out in the open at prominent Darlinghurst position Taylor Square, Cafe Freda's has not only brought 'too hip to be square' into… -
Grandeez
Food & Drink Reviews
I have an affinity for novelty and searching for things off the beaten path; this applies to travel and food experiences. It doesn't always turn out to be a good experience, but nevertheless it's usually memorable in one way or another. When I fou… -
Mr Stonebowl
Food & Drink Reviews
You need a strategy to dine at Mr Stonebowl. Their Burwood restaurant is ridiculously popular, so it’s best to arrive close to when it opens at 5pm. What the people queue for are well-priced, well-presented, contemporary Chinese dishes, often em… -
JC & Co Dining
Food & Drink Reviews
Taking over Strathfield’s JC & Co espresso and patisserie by night, JC & Co Dining is a pop-up Korean fine diner. Launching this weekend, my meal was preceded by a fun month watching them develop their first degustation menu ($85/head) on Instag…