If you happen to follow me on Facebook and/or Instagram you may be aware that on Saturday May 7th I finally fulfilled my long term quest and dined at my 100th and final Gourmet Traveller Top 100 restaurant on the 2016 list. So, I thought it was timely to pull together a list of my own favourites based on the ones I’ve dined at over the last two to three years Read more
And then there was one… and this is it! My 100th and final Top 100 to complete the 2016 list! Once again, it’s one of those places that has been on the list for a number of years but I just hadn’t made it as it was a little harder to get to being in Bowral, around 1.5 hours south of Sydney – the town Read more
Ok, now here’s a restaurant I’ve been meaning to get to for literally years! It’s been on the Top 100 list for so long now but it’s always been one of those ones I haven’t quite made it to simply because it’s so far away! Nu Nu is in Palm Cove, Far North Queensland, about 30 minutes drive north of Read more
Well, what can I say about GOMA Restaurant? I’d flown all the way to Brisbane for it, so I wanted it to be good. It was also an opportunity to catch up with my Brissie friends Sally and Rick who I met on our Luke Nguyen Vietnam tour a couple of years ago. They’re always up for a good Read more
Oh my goodness. Before I went, I had no idea that the food at LuMi was going to be so sensational. This day I was catching up with a fellow-blogger for the first time. Always risky, particularly if it’s going to be a long lunch. Well, this lunch lasted FIVE hours, and I’m pleased to say, this blogger Read more
When I was growing up my dad used to cook stir-fried spaghetti – Chinese ingredients, substituting spaghetti for Asian noodles. It made perfect sense to me. I think this is where I grew to love the texture and slipperiness of spaghetti and for me, it’s still a big comfort food – I could literally eat a bucketful. Speaking with people over the years, I came to learn Read more
Minamishima is located in a side street off Bridge Road in Richmond. On the ground floor of an apartment block, it’s not easy to find – in fact I walked straight past it twice. But once you’ve hunted it down and stepped inside, you find yourself in a whole new world. A world that’s refined and serene. Minamishima opened Read more
When Shaun Quade, JP Fiechtner and Sally Humble opened Lume last year they’re on record as saying they wanted it to be amongst the best restaurants in the world. Feichtner and Humble may have since left, but Quade is certainly doing a damn fine job of making that dream a reality. My meal at Lume was certainly one of the Read more
O.MY makes for a great story. Why? Because it’s the story of three young brothers – Blayne, Tyson and Chayse who bought an old butcher shop and, in a relatively short time, have successfully created a Top 100-worthy dining experience in Beaconsfield, regional Victoria. Yes, it’s the Read more
Strange name, I hear you say. Lalla Rookh is actually an early 1800s Oriental romance by Thomas Moore. Lalla is the heroine, and I assume this is the inspiration for the name Lalla Rookh Bar and Eating House. I had it on extremely good Read more
