It’s the first Saturday of winter and I’m sitting in the Art Gallery of NSW cafe eating a sausage roll. It’s not just any sausage roll, it’s a smoked jalapeño beef sausage roll with bush tomato relish ($14). It’s boujie, easily one of the most delicious sausage rolls I’ve had, and my go to favourite…
The Grounds of Alexandria
The decision to go to The Grounds at peak brunch hour on Saturday is a … choice. It’s not just The Grounds cafe specifically, it’s the whole experience. It is trying to find a park in a parking station where almost every spot says you aren’t allowed to park (and some have scary cartoons of…
Shuk Chatswood
Sometimes you just have to give things a go. Unfamiliar place? go there. Unknown people, meet them. Untried food? Order it. And so I find myself on a Saturday, brunch-time, rolling up to Shuk in Chatswood, low key, relaxed, and the perfect casual and low pressure place to meet a rando bloke from the internet….
Bistro Kai
You know the age old stories in romcoms and life? You meet the perfect guy when you’re both in rebound mode, might have worked out but the timing was wrong. Maybe you circle back a year later and the timing is right, or not, maybe he’s married with a kid on the way, or in…
Avner’s Bakery
It’s been a while since I posted here or wrote anything for my blog. Truth is, I sort of lost my way. I wrote the blog every single week for three years, and then Covid hit, and I moved countries, and I was trying to find my feet, and then Oct 7 happened and the…
Hardware Société
I have one morning alone in Melbourne to eat a delicious breakfast and a friend has recommended Hardware Société. If it has her stamp of approval then it is bound to be good, so I don’t need to be told twice. The Hardware St location is down a side street and up a few stairs….
Brunch at The Allotment Kitchen
Sometimes its fun to have brunch with a side of pig, and not the bacon kind. I speak of my brunchtime visit to The Allotment Kitchen at Stepney City Farm, so perhaps it’s not ‘on the side’, adjacent maybe? Either way, what a lovely Saturday morning activity. I guarantee you that looking at chickens happily…
A tale of two (dairy free) soft serves
I love ice cream. Unfortunately, probably in part to my Ashkenazi Jewish roots’ propensity for lactose intolerance, ice cream really doesn’t like me. And while that’s disappointing (who doesn’t like to be liked!) it does make finding a delicious alternative that doesn’t send me running for the bathroom something of a fun challenge. TMI? It’s…
Stopping time at Xi’an Biang Biang Noodles
On a sunny jubilee weekend, I went to Cambridge for the day. It’s a lovely university town, full of history. Old college buildings, the punting tradition – pushing yourself on a boat around the river with big, long stick. There are picturesque meadows with cows that appear to belong to no one ambling past and…
Home cooking, quarantine style
Isolation – It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Weeks on end stuck at home, unable to delight in my favourite marmite, schlossenberg and spring onion pastry from Pophams, accompanied by a posh coffee. No ramen from Tonkotsu, or hunting down new places to find fresh pasta. No languid Sunday…
Casse-Croûte
I suppose if the bare minimum skills of a food blogger is that they are able to tell you exactly what they ate and how much it cost then I have failed in this post before I have even begun. The truth of the matter is that I simply have no idea. I don’t know…
Bellanger 2.0
I was so sad when Bellanger closed. I may have even cried. The crying jig might have coincided with being dumped so it’s possible I was being overly dramatic, but still, I was very sad regardless. A while ago I wrote about Bellanger and my love for their super-food salad, link here – Déjà Food…
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