French

le petit deux, Newcastle

March 10, 2013

le petit deux is relatively new to the Newcastle scene but its head chef and owner, Lesley Taylor, is not. le petit deux is the more casual bistro reincarnation of Restaurant Deux, a restaurant that received rave reviews in its two year life. The new restaurant is a French bistro to a tee with a [...]

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Bacchus Restaurant, Newcastle

March 9, 2013

Heading to Newcastle for a sneaky weekend getaway, we were keen to check out a restaurant where a Sydney chef and Bacchus’ ex-restaurant manager were working. However as our trip approached everything changed when we heard both the chef and manager had resigned. Hmm where to now? It was only too easy to lock in [...]

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Restaurant Atelier, Pig-On-A-Spit, Glebe

December 30, 2012

We first dined at Restaurant Atelier on Friday 13th July 2012 thanks to Miss Piggy’s food blogger dinner. Not only did we meet some great people but we also tasted some gorgeous food which has kept us coming back time and again. Looking back over the last 6 months it occurred to me we’ve now [...]

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Crown Street Assembly, Surry Hills

August 23, 2012

Quite fresh into the Surry Hills scene is Crown Street Assembly. Erez Gordon of Bistro Bruno in Balmain has teamed up with Paul Cooper formerly of O’Connell’s Centenary Hotel in Melbourne [both formerly of The Botanical in Melbourne] to bring us a new restaurant/bar with a French influence. Melbourne’s loss is Sydney’s gain it seems. [...]

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Restaurant Atelier, Pork Masterclass – #porkfest, Glebe

July 29, 2012

Pork is the ‘it’ thing at the moment. Everyone is talking about it, eating it and cooking it… or attempting to cook it. There are many who just have no idea how to cook pork, especially pork crackling. We don’t eat pork at home very often, but when we do we generally pan-fry a pork [...]

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Restaurant Atelier, Blogger Dinner, Glebe

July 13, 2012

I had never been to a blogger dinner before, or a blogger picnic, or a blogger meet-up of any description. I’m kinda shy and tend to get embarrassed by the ‘blogger’ title. Yes I like to take photos of my food. And write about it. But I’m a useless cook, an amateur writer and a [...]

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Tetsuya’s, Sydney

May 1, 2012

I love birthdays and as Dylan was turning 30 this year I knew I had to take him somewhere special. And I knew it had to be Tetsuya’s. We celebrated Dylan’s 29th with a group of friends at Tetsuya’s last year and it immediately became one of his favourite restaurants. I made the booking and [...]

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Bacchus Restaurant, Newcastle

April 20, 2012

Newcastle sounds like a long way to go for dinner, but not when some of your best friends live up that way. Dylan grew up in the Lake Macquarie area, north of the Central Coast and south of Newcastle. Most of his friends have moved to Sydney or New York, but a couple still live [...]

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Gourmet Traveller Reader’s Dinner: Bilson’s, Sydney

September 19, 2011

We always seem to be talking about ‘The List’ and I guess it is for a good reason. There are sooooo many restaurants we want to go to and only limited time and money to eat at them all. But if there was a place we needed to bump up ‘The List’ it would have [...]

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The Montpellier Public House, Randwick

September 15, 2011

‘The List’ of restaurants seems to be never ending and it takes quite some time for us to actually get to restaurants on the list. We finally got to Restaurant Balzac in June and wished we’d got there so much earlier as it wasn’t long after our first visit that chef/owner Matthew Kemp announced he [...]

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