Food & Drink Reviews

  • Mr Buffalo BBQ

    Food & Drink Reviews
    It’s hard not to smile in the neon-drenched surrounds of Mr. Buffalo BBQ 牛鲜生中式烤肉 in Burwood. This futuristic barbeque joint also has an interesting point of difference: it’s Chinese barbeque rather than Korean or Japanese. What t…

  • Indominute

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    Time and energy has clearly been invested into the branding of Indominute. This small Indonesian cafe is a recent addition to the St Peters end of King Street, Newtown. The walls are decorated with framed posters depicting key dishes, like nasi go…

  • The Bund

    Food & Drink Reviews
    The Bund is well placed for Walsh Bay’s theatres, and clearly aimed at folks who frequent them. Staff fly across the floor to get you in and out within an hour without even being asked. The restaurant is named after Shanghai’s famous waterfron…

  • The Sanderson

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    Extravagant, ostentatious, and glitzy are some words I would use to describe the experience at The Sanderson by the Speakeasy Group. If you can find the entrance (just look for the rug) you'll find yourself transported back in time to La Be…

  • Edomae Sushi

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    Japanese restaurant, Edomae Sushi set off the main drag in Burwood, often attracts a queue. Read the full Sydney Scoop review by Jackie McMillan.

  • Sushi Train Newtown

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    With time to kill in Newtown, I reacquainted myself with the ever-popular Sushi Train, thankfully before a queue started forming just outside the door. A simple counter affair, this small restaurant offers multiple ways to order. You can scan the …

  • Pho Vien

    Food & Drink Reviews
    By now, most people are familiar with pho, the Vietnamese soup dish consisting of broth, rice noodles, herbs, and meat. The version we know of today developed in the early 20th century just southeast of Hanoi. Beef was not a popular meat back then…

  • K.malu Kitchen & Bar

    Food & Drink Reviews
    You’ll find the K.Malu Kitchen & Bar in the site previously occupied by Caveau, continuing the tradition of upmarket dining in the space. The restaurant’s name is a mashup of the owners names: Keana Lufe and Maria Luciani. The menu(s) are equa…

  • Cô Ba

    Food & Drink Reviews
    The young male floor team at Cô Ba in Cabramatta have perfected the art of travelling through the dining room with their eyes lowered to avoid being flagged by diners. However whatever time you waste trying to place an order is quickly made up by…

  • Dom Panino

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Queues abound at Leichhardt’s newest paninoteca—sandwich shop—Dom Panino. The corner shop, with its candy pink awnings and sun drenched footpath tables, is the logical next step for owner Dom Ruggeri who started this business as a popular Br…

  • Duroowa Pocha

    Food & Drink Reviews
    When you think of Korean food, what immediately comes to mind? Most likely it'll be something along the lines of Korean BBQ, Kimchi, Korean Fried Chicken, and maybe some stews. There's another category called Pocha, also known as street/market com…

  • Kosuke Ramen Honten : North Strathfield

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Howard Chen explains tsukemen and takes us on a taste test to Kosuke Ramen Honten North Strathfield.

  • St. Blaise

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Howard Chen bites into Croation food at St. Blaise in Matraville in his first review on Sydney Scoop.

  • Bridge St Pizzeria BSP.ERIA

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    Pizza is always at its best when eaten straight from the pizza oven. So, new hole-in-the wall pizza kiosk …

  • Bella Brutta

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Despite the minimalist decor, Bella Brutta is warm and convivial, particularly if you find yourself at one of the tables in front of the Italian wood-fire oven. The bearded pizziaolo performs a hypnotising dance, expertly swinging his paddle from …

  • Bouillon l’Entrecote

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    A crisp white apron is tightly wrapped around the slim hips of a scurrying waiter. Perhaps it is the watchful eyes of the legendary French chef, Paul Bocuse, depicted on a painting hanging on Bouillon l’Entrecote’s back wall that sees the all-…

  • Steamers Bar & Grill

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    Steamers Bar & Grill was hard to get a handle on. On the one hand, its placement where Wollongong Lighthouse meets City Beach suggests overpriced tourist trap — an impression no doubt enhanced by nautical theming from shelves of mounted globes a…

  • Hearthe

    Food & Drink Reviews
    By now you probably know that Black Star founder and creator of their famous strawberry watermelon cake, Christopher Thé, has opened a cake shop and bakery in Stanmore. However Hearthe is more than just somewhere to eat cakes infused with a range…

  • The Reverie Cat

    Food & Drink Reviews
    The oddly named Reverie Cat eats like half-remembered Vietnamese crafted with white people at the centre. Pâté, for example, has been judged too weird and consigned to daytime banh mi, in favour of skewers, spring rolls and fishcakes at night. …

  • Lil Franky

    Food & Drink Reviews
    Lil Franky oozes hospitality, with brothers Franky and Mattia a big part of the attraction at this new Tempe pizzeria. The first thing I noticed while driving down the Princes Highway was the sign’s clever font work. Intrigued enough to look the…