Wasabi in Noosa is serving authentic Japanese food primarily using produce sourced from the local area. This is so for many restaurants in Japan where their cuisines are based on only locally sourced ingredients. Wasabi has its own Read more
Paper Daisy is the restaurant at Halycon House, a 21-room boutique hotel at Cabarita Beach. I hadn’t heard of Cabarita Beach before this restaurant appeared on the Top 100 list so Read more
Now here’s a place that fits in perfectly with its surrounds. Three Blue Ducks at the Farm is super-relaxed and informal, just like the whole NSW Northern River area. There’s no fancy schmansy or finery here, but that in no way means the food isn’t up to scratch, or the service. I have Read more
Well, what a superb ending to 2015 – dining at four regional Top 100 restaurants in a row from Byron Bay to Noosa between Christmas and New Year. One of these restaurants was Fleet in Brunswick Heads and I have to say, it was a most enjoyable experience. We simply couldn’t Read more
I was on a late flight back from Sydney to Adelaide and to my delight, Bennelong (located at the Sydney Opera House) does early Pre-Theatre Dining at 5:30pm meaning Read more
Monster is the second of two Top 100 restaurants in Canberra that I went to. It’s located in the enormous lobby space of the ‘Hotel Hotel’. It’s a fab looking hotel – contemporary and edgy and I would have loved to have Read more
What’s that I hear you ask? Top 100 restaurants in Canberra? Yes – not only one, but TWO on the current list, meaning this little gourmet traveller had to pack a bag and head to Australia’s capital city. Aubergine in Griffith was my first stop. Chef Ben Willis and wife Andrea Read more
“I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walkin’ through the streets of Soho in the rain
He was lookin’ for the place called Lee Ho Fooks
Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein”
Recognise those lyrics from the Warren Zevon song, ‘Werewolves of London’? Well these days Read more
Ezard opened at the Adelphi hotel in Flinders Lane in 1999. People fell in love with Teage Ezard’s Asian-influenced contemporary food. The first time I ate here was around twelve years ago and I had mixed feelings about it – I found some of the flavours in some of the dishes a little Read more
Kappo is a relative newcomer to Melbourne. It’s at 1 Flinders Lane – I’d been a couple of times before when it was Verge. Kappo is by the same team as Izakaya Den, former Melbourne Top 100. When you finally work out where the front door is, you walk down a dark hallway to a sleek, stylish Read more
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