Your Guide to Sydney's Best Cafes, Dining, Restaurants & Bars
January 2012 Foodie Feature
Summer's the Best Time for It
Sydney locals know that when you're looking to get away for a few days, Mudgee is a prime destination which has true foodie and wine-loving flair. We recently travelled with Aussie Farmstay and Bush Adventures on an adventure tour where passengers experience a variety of cuisines from the traditional to nouvelle thanks to a stay in Mudgee. Tours stop at cellar doors of local vineyards to sample wines and also visit any of the many outlets which serve locally-produced foods including honey, olive oils, sauces, pastes, dukah and even mead! Mudgee has many choices for eating and drinking in the evening ranging from friendly bustling pub bistros such as the Lawson Park's Red Heifer and the Oriental's Ori to fine dining restaurants such as Elton’s. You’ll find local wines in every hotel and restaurant but Mudgee also brews its own beer at the Mudgee Brewing Company.
Then later on tour passengers sample traditional food from Australia’s rural past around the campfire at a farmstay near Eugowra NSW. Cooked in camp ovens and on the BBQ a feast of lamb chop kangaroo meat kebabs, and sausages is complemented by roasted vegetables just like the early settlers enjoyed. Following the main meal Cocky’s Joy, traditional damper served with Golden Syrup, is served with a good cup of Billy Tea. In the morning passengers wake up to a hearty Australian bush breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausages, tomatoes, toast and pancakes ...
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The Tea that Goddesses Drink
Although Westerners assume that tea blossoms are an ancient tradition given the Chinese affection for both tea and flowers, tea blossoms appear to be a creation of the 1980s. We can be sure at least that they originated in China, and they became popularised in the West in the early 2000s, around the same time that the more elegant end of Asian-style foods and décor started to become de rigeur with the cogniscenti. A flowering tea, also known as blooming tea or tea blossom, is a small bundle of dried tea leaves and flowers bound together with cotton thread into a ball. When steeped, the bundle expands and unfurls in a process that emulates a blooming flower. We sampled fascinating tea blossoms with names like Chloe's Pink Carnation, Princess Malia, Little Prince Harvey and Hannah's Jasmine Wreath and were delighted with ...
Foodie Frolics
Country Living with City Trimmings
It's not just the preserve of foodies with the best cafes, restaurants and wineries in the district, it's also a haven for city girls who can trick their uglier half into thinking they're both off on a wine tour but then spend half the day in one of the best regional fashion shops in Australia - we're speaking about the delightful Cherry Red, whose creator Gina Fitzgerald is giving us a local's scoop on the best things to do in this uber-funky town. While Gina is now stepping out with a complete online fashion shopping solution for Australian women whether rural or city-bound, she also celebrates Mudgee's finest attractions including The Butcher Shop Cafe, Oatley's Cafe & Pavilion, the Oriental Hotel and fab wineries such as Blue Wren Wines, Logan Wines, Burnbrae Wines and Frog Rock. Plus there's two local markets which are ...
Blue Mountains
Head for them hills!
Leura is pretty ripe cafe territory, the 'cafe in the mountains' has become quite a popular theme in recent years with innumerable little places turning up, some are good, some are bad and some are great! Finding the differences between establishments is somewhat of an adventure for the beanophiles in the SydneyCafes team. So we checked into the Wayzgoose Cafe to see if they had anything to offer us. Famous for serving up scones in flowerpots, which is sort of cool. Go in for a pie and you'll feel pretty happy with the outcome. A little on the pricey side, but then that's Leura for you. It is sort of a shame that all the quaint little coffee shops up in the hills became trendy and now have trendy prices, I'm quite cheap like that though, so don't take it to heart. It's worth it what with the current economic climes of coffee shops ...
Celibate Coffee
Can Caffeine-free Coffee be Sexy?
It's scientifically proven that coffee and sex go hand-in, er hand? The mental stimulation that our morning caffeine hit provides, if given the chance, can transmute, via a downwards energetic concentration, to the pelvic area, or "base chakra" for those who prefer their long black conversations to be splashed with somewhat more milky new age alliterations. Of course, for those whose morning coffee is automatically accompanied by a visit to their workplace, the energy charge is sublimated (Freud got this bit right) into urges channelled towards corporate conquest ... but for those who enjoy coffee at home, should the situation permit and the object of one's desire be complicit, then yes, coffee is very sexy! But what of coffee's distant cousin, the caffeine-free herbal coffee? Is this the celibate's beverage du jour? For the caffeine-sensitive ...
Sydney's Late-Night Cafe Legend
A Bondi Institution 48 Years Old
With Sydney's summer in the air, no more keenly is the party season celebrated than around Australia's most famous beach, Bondi, which locals and many visitors like to think of as the Saint Tropez of the southern hemisphere ... For The 3 Steps Cafe, another summer of heady Bondi love will always be a case of "same as it ever was". Their team of seven chefs knows what it is to see off the wildest of Bondi nights - and they equally know what it takes to unflinchingly fire up a new day of Bondi adventures as they open their doors and churn out the biggest of breakfasts from 4.30am. There's no messing with this place's legend, as it's been doing this since 1962, long before most of its patrons were born ...
Local Cafe Feature
The Coffee's Good in Hurlstone Park!
Things about Sydney You May Not Know ...
We loved the recent survey by Cannings & Wallace which showed Sydneysiders spend 92% of their lives inhabiting just six suburbs of Sydney. First there's the suburb they live, then the suburb they work, the next 2-3 are suburbs of family members or friends and finally there's the suburb (should it not already be included in the first "home suburb") of their favourite cafe or restaurant. That's why we've started a new series talking to people about foodie options in their neck of the woods - to lift people's eyebrows just a little ... First we speak to Poppy Arvanis, who owns a small boutique furniture store, Habitat Furniture, in Hurlstone Park. "Where?" about half of Sydney born-and-bred people mutter over their first latte of the morning, and that's what we love about Sydney! Our village mentality sure keeps things cosy ...
Cafe Society
Sydney Exhibition Centre
One thing that makes Sydney winters so adorable, apart from all the glorious climate-change sunshine, is the abundance of food expos and festivals that not only brighten the horizon, but make it warm and yummy. We popped into the recent Sydney Good Food & Wine Show at Darling Harbour and it was a vibey mass gathering of gourmet luxury. We tried everything in sight and managed to snap an array of shots of the very welcoming people who occupied each booth. Here's a selection of social snaps - we have 1000 other pics of the event - wish we could publish them all ...
Bar Up!
Manly, Cocktail Bar & Tapas Bar
Sydney's burgeoning small bar scene has now reached Manly with the emergence of the very welcoming Miss Marley's - another place that's so discreetly signposted you'll walk up and down all night unless I tell you that it's at Number 32 Belgrave St, opposite the tennis ...
Funkiest Cafes in Melbourne
A Melbourne foodie writer reveals the finest
Sydney and Melbourne are profoundly different cities, inhabited by considerably different people. A typical Sydneysider is brash, a little overconfident and loud. Whereas Melbourne people like to think of themselves as more demure, intellectual and culture-conscious. Then there's their love of food, cafe and bars. Based on the quality of the cafes reviewed by Lara McPherson, in this instance they have a just a tiny right to feel superior ...
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Artistic catering to Gold Licence standards, Gourmet Palette Caterers is a partnership between executive chef Sion Harwood and fashion stylist Fiona Harper Harwood, two of the loveliest people you could ever meet in the Sydney hospitality industry...
Anti-ageing in a Cup
The Health Benefits of Herbal Tea ...
Heal your liver, heal your soul ...
Herbal teas are growing in popularity as people are combining socialising with friends in a cafe with an opportunity to also improve their health. The soothing effects of sipping a hot cup of tea can provide some respite from our frantic work environments. Popular herbal teas available in cafes include chamomile, peppermint and green tea. Historically chamomile was used by Anglo-Saxons as one of their nine sacred herbs. It was also used to embalm the body of the Egyptian Pharaoh Rhamses II. Chamomile is an excellent tea to relieve digestive disturbances related to stress, as it is an anti-spasmodic and is soothing to the stomach and the nerves. It also has a mild anti-inflammatory effect and anti-allergy effect ...
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