Chris Singh is an Editor-At-Large at the AU review, loves writing about travel and hospitality, and is partial to a perfectly textured octopus. You can reach him on Instagram: @chrisdsingh.
Well, this is a sad surprise. Sam Miller’s Silvereye in Chippendale has announced today that they will be closing, less than a year after opening on the second floor of the refreshed Old Clare Hotel in September of last year. As businessinsider reports, staff were told of the closing this morning and Miller’s plans to…
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One of Sydney’s best known French Pâtisseries, La Renaissance, has been standing proud in The Rocks for over 40 years now, constantly delivering café food and classic arrays of cakes, pastries, shortbreads, and other treats to a very large, very hungry following. Now the brand has expanded their reach across the city, opening up a…
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Now that they’ve got The Dolphin Hotel up and running, restaurateur Maurice Terzini and Executive Chef Monty Koludrovic are planning a special collaborative dinner at Bondi institution Icebergs Dining Room and Bar that will welcome in David Moyle of awarded Hobart restaurant Franklin Dining Room and Bar. Set for Thursday 4th August, the one-night-only dinner…
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While Altona’s dining scene picks up the Melbourne suburb has welcomed a brand new double storey eatery and bar called Two Bros on Blyth, a permanent version of last year’s successful pop up of the same name by brothers Michael and Ehab Botros. The Botros brothers have set up just off Altona’s busy Pier Street,…
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After successful runs across the country throughout this month, the annual Good Food & Wine Show will return to Sydney for the first week of August (5-7), setting up at its usual spot in Sydney Olympic Park for three celebratory days of world-class chefs, TV personalities, demonstrations, master classes, food stalls, wine showcases, and more….
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Straight outta Portland, U.S based Gelato Fiasco is set to impact the Australian market now that they have launched a range of slightly ridiculous flavours around the country. To celebrate their arrival, they are bringing a special treat to Melbourne’s Fitzroy next month, opening a pop up Gelato Fiasco Log Cabin in the hip Melbourne…
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Tigerair Australia have announced a Christmas in July sale commencing today, offering up 15,00 fares across both their domestic and international network from $15 each way. Launching at 12pm (AEST) today, Wednesday 27th July, and running until 12pm (AEST) Saturday 30th July, the latest price reduction from the budget airline is but another showing of…
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Legendary The Smiths vocalist Morrissey will be making a return to Australia for five shows as part of a wider, recently announced world tour. Just last year, Moz came down as a headliner for Sydney’s Vivid LIVE, playing to a sold out crowd at the Sydney Opera House, but this time he’ll be skipping the…
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Executive Chef Zachary Tan has been kicking all types of goals at Darlinghurst’s Lazy Suzie which opened earlier this year in March, dishing up unique twists on Malaysian street food with some of the best cocktails in the area (and that’s saying a lot). However, somewhere along the way the owners faced a potential trademark…
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After the sell-out success of their first Messina Eats pop up in the car park near their Rosebery HQ, Gelato Messina have decided to quickly bring the series back, welcoming in more of their friends to stage another two day food bender that this time includes baos and hand-crafted soda. While the first one was…
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Unique boutique hotel Ovolo Woolloomooloo unveiled a series of new event spaces recently, finalising the $20 million renovation of one of the city’s most iconic, heritage-listed spaces which is located right on that iconic wharf that most people know the area for. The new event space takes full advantage of the previous hotel’s lobby and…
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With two restaurants now open across Melbourne – Kew hotspot Mister Bianco and fresh face Massi – Chef Joseph Vargetto and his teams have decided to embrace Australia’s truffle season by launching a new dinner series celebrating everyone’s favourite fungi this August. The exclusive truffle events will run over four nights, marrying the sought after…
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Sydney’s Munich Brauhaus and Bavarian Bier Cafe venues across Sydney, Melbourne, and Queensland will make celebrating National Chicken Wing Day (it’s an American thing, but when has that ever stopped us?) this Friday a hell of a lot cheaper than usual as they prepare to dish out chicken wings for 10 cents each. With a…
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Announced today, Uber’s popular crowd-sourced food delivery service, UberEATS, has finally made its way on over to Sydney after recently making its Australian debut in Melbourne. The on-demand meal delivery service from Uber has been a major player in the industry around the globe since making an impact in various U.S and European cities last…
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Mark Best’s popular Pei Modern Sydney in the flashy Four Seasons will welcome the team from Young Henrys this week for a collaborative mid-winter feast. Part of their “Paddock to Plate” series, the restaurant are making use of several YH products – craft beer, cloudy cider, and gin – with an exclusively designed pairing menu…
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Sydney’s batch of niche food festivals may just hit its peak this weekend as, just six days after the city saw its first dedicated fried chicken festival, we are getting a damn doughnut festival, and some of the best are on board. By best we’re talking the likes of: Doughnut Time, My Donut Box, Woah…
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Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards, which are held each year in partnership with Gourmet Traveller WINE, have today been announced, a result of the heady task that is sorting through the country’s top restaurants to arrive at the very best being offered in 2016. Each year, the list of awards serves as an…
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OzHarvest are bringing back their annual Think.Eat.Save event this week, aiming to feed members of the public for free in cities both major and regional across Australia. Set up on Monday 25th July from 11:30am to 2:30pm, the food rescue organisation and some of the best Chefs in Australia will dish up plates made from…
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It’s World Tequila Day today, bringing cause to celebrate one of the best and most diverse spirits in the world, a spirit which has seen numerous expressions and inventive cocktails pop up across decades. While there are plenty of ways to go out and celebrate Tequila (that don’t involve cheap shots in a backpacker bar)…
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The Walking Dead fans are either still reeling from the Season 6 finale’s vague cliffhanger, or are confident they know who was on the receiving end of Negan’s bloody barb-wired baseball bat/inanimate love interest. One things for sure though, we’re all holding out for a definitive answer, as soul-crushing as the reveal may be. Fan…
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AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead has struggled to find a consistent point of quality one and a half seasons into it’s increasingly undead world. And while television trailers are traditionally manufactured to play on #hype, it is really looking like the spin-off will shake mediocrity in the back of half of season two. Debuted at…
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British talk show host (and truly one of the only entertaining ones out there) Graham Norton has been dabbling in a completely different trade as of late, partnering with inventive New Zealand winemaker Invivo to produce his very own Sauvignon Blanc. This isn’t the first time a celebrity has gone hands-on with the wine business,…
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As part of their worldwide 150th anniversary celebrations, iconic brand Jack Daniel’s are bringing a unique experience to Australian Whisky fans, planning free “A Journey through 150 Years of Craft & Cocktail Culture” masterclasses and tastings that are said to take guests back to 1920s prohibition era and beyond. JD’s Assistant Master Distiller Chris Fletcher…
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From now up until 9th October Sydney’s artsy French style hotel Sofitel Sydney Wentworth will be offering their guests and visitors an art-inspired high tea that has been designed to celebrate the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Archibald Prize for this year. As an official partner for the portrait prize, the property has tasked…
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Trained under prominent Brooklyn-based pitmaster Nestor Laracuente, Sydney based BBQ champ Dan the Man has decided that his hometown should never want for low-and-slow BBQ, making plans to introduce a new “Up In Smoke” series to kick off this August. Setting up shop the first Friday of every month for the rest of the year,…
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For their monthly Burger Lords series, controversial Chippendale pub The Lord Gladstone have put together a fresh new creation they are triumphantly calling The Wu-Tang Baoger. Seemingly, the pub crew have reached found this recipe in the slums of Shaolin, crafting something not even Raekwon the Chef has cooked up before, mashing up a bao…
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Melbourne burger don Dani Zeini (Dandenong Pavilion, Easy’s, Truck Stop Deluxe, and more) is planning on bringing his popular Royal Stacks up the east coast to Sydney’s Chatswood in a little over a month from now. Confirmed recently, the popular burger joint will be opening up its first ever NSW store in Westfield Chatswood, sharpening…
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Down in the depths of glamorous basement haunt Crystal Bar, part of the GPO Grand precinct, Sydneysiders will now a find a gourmet “cheeseburger collection” which has been worked up in collaboration between GPO Cheese & Wine Room and Prime Steak Restaurant. With a range of artisan farmhouse cheeses and Prime’s daily made tartare-inspired beef…
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After eight years standing tall as a Surry Hills favourite, Sugarcane has finally seen a second location. Chef and owner Milan Strbac is set for a little seachange with this one, this week launching the new iteration of the South-East Asian eatery as a 100-seated, seafood-focused restaurant located on the southern end of Coogee’s beautiful…
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The full program for the sixth annual Sydney Craft Beer Week – the city’s largest and most comprehensive celebration of craft beer – has been revealed, promising a huge range of events from Friday 21st to Sunday 20th October. International brewery guests, hair of the dog brekkies, beer matched chocolate desserts, sausage making classes, history…
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