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We've got it assorted

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST

Variety is the norm on these inner-city streets â€” and menus â€” writes Lucy Barbour. The pedestrians on Darlinghurst's streets are a mixed crowd. There are men in suits, ladies (and lads) in stilettos, mums with prams, grey-haired couples, empty-nesters, film stars, sports nuts, wannabe actors and more.This eclectic nature is also what makes Darlinghurst's dining scene tick, says chef Mitch Orr of Duke Bistro, which opened above the Flinders Hotel late last year. "It's ...

Global appeal

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST

Stephanie Bunbury takes a trip to some of Melbourne's ethnic precincts, finding everything from pomegranate syrup to injera bread.SYDNEY ROAD, BRUNSWICKThe striking thing about Melbourne is that every time I come back from London, where I live, it's changed again. Take Sydney Road in Brunswick, around the corner from where I'm staying with my friend Lyn. Sydney Road is like a geological cross-section, layered with generations of immigrants. The Mediterranean Wholesalers, with its giant cans of t ...

From the other side of the table

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST

In Cafe 101, waiter Caroline Tuohy serves up a guide to being a customer in the 21st century. 1. When I ask if you are ready to order and you say "Yes", that is not your cue to begin reading the menu, discussing what you'd like with your friends or pointing at each other so someone else goes first. Just order.2. With coffee, there is no such thing as strongish, weakish, a little bit hotter than normal, quarter-strength, half-strength or any other bollocks. It's one, two or three shots, ...

Getting beta all the time

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST

Does Internet Explorer 9 measure up to other web browsers? Anthony Caruana investigates. IN THE late 1990s, Microsoft blew away all comers to completely dominate the web-browser market. Sure, it was a market in which software was being given away and the victory wasn't without controversy â€” Microsoft is still dealing with the consequences of anti-trust lawsuits â€” but several great alternatives mean that Microsoft no longer has things all its own way.The latest iteration o ...

Picasso with a plate

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

An innovative Mumbai chef has thrown away the rule book when it comes to the dining experience, writes Leisa Tyler. It's the age-old story. Boy crackles with new ideas but society values tradition. Boy feels thwarted by obstinate society, so runs off to refine his talent in a foreign land. Foreign land loves boy and makes him a star.Or so Vineet Bhatia's life story goes.Born in Mumbai, Bhatia trained as a chef with hotel group Oberoi before taking the helm of its classical north-western frontier ...

Ben there, done that

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST

A noted chef shares family favourites, writes Karen Hardy. BEN O'Donoghue says it's a fallacy that chefs' children are all little gourmands. "It's just not true," he says. "I've got three kids, and Herb, the middle one, wouldn't touch half the stuff in this latest book."The restaurateur can see the humour in it â€” much more so when it's not dinner time, perhaps â€” and is glad that his eldest, Ruby, 7, and youngest, Cash, 3, are more adventurous."The ...

Great Salad Secrets

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Family first ensures a fresh taste at summer meals, writes Kylie Davis.ON SUMMER days, or whenever our extended family gets together, my job is to be on Salad Patrol.It's the result of two things - a childhood being forced to eat iceberg lettuce topped by soggy and tasteless tomatoes, followed by teenage years when I realised that the girl who cooked the meal decided the menu. With this revelation, our family's eating habits changed instantly, as my overworked mum cheerfully handed ...

Mincing Words

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Beautiful menus can leave diners salivating, writes Kath Dolan. FOOD blogger Claire Davie of Melbourne Gastronome can spot a bad menu a mile off: typos and spelling mistakes; flowery prose; repetition; token use of trendy ingredients; pretentious overuse of foreign terms that aren't explained; and an overwhelming number of choices. She believes chefs are wise to opt for simple menus and let their food do the talking. Diners can't hope to replicate their dishes at home so "there's no poin ...

Lean And Mean's The New Cuisine

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

One week, 14 meals, just $50. Is it possible to eat well on such a tight budget?WITH recession playing on everyone's mind, the dining table is about to become the newest battleground in fighting the credit crunch. As we think more about what we spend and where, the shopping trolley is coming under the microscope.As a nation, we shell out about $16.53 billion each year on take-away food. We're a wasteful lot too. On average, Victorians throw away the equivalent of one bag of sho ...

The Lone Star Plate

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

Guy Wilkinson packs his appetite to boldly venture where the meals are bigger than, well, Texas.It doesn't take long to realise I'm in Texas. Just minutes after touching down I find myself in a Tex-Mex restaurant staring open-mouthed at a beef burrito the size of a small child. It wouldn't be so intimidating if I wasn't still reeling from the jetlag. Or if this beast wasn't slathered in enough cheese to satisfy your average fondue fiend for a lifetime. Never mind, if I have trouble ...

The Serve - This Week: Take-home Meals

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST

Take-home meals are booming and it's not just because "take-home" sounds more wholesome than "takeaway". Some people relish the idea of friends for dinner, but can't see how it tallies with getting home at 7pm. And, sometimes, you want restaurant food, but you need to eat in your pyjamas: take-home dinner to the rescue. I've eaten seven of Melbourne's better options, not all of them, I swear, in my pyjamas.Big Harvest, 151 Elgin Street, Carlton, 9348 0066. Monday to Friday, 7.30am-5pm; S ...

Picking Up The Pizzas

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST

Sometimes you just have those weeks when everything seems to be muddled up. Ours included sick kids, work deadlines and real estate nightmares and neither Fabio nor I were happy about finishing off the working week by heading into the kitchen to cook.Thank goodness there is plenty of takeaway to be had in Newcastle and we were both keen to find out how APK on Beaumont Street, Hamilton, had changed.APK was renowned for its pizzas but the past few years have been relatively quiet ...

Core Promises Don't Deliver

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST

RESTAURANT REVIEW: B.coz, East HawthornTake away the fancy wording and this is an expensive restaurant with unimaginative food, out of step with what's going on in the better restaurants of Australia.11 /20HERE'S an exercise. Write this down on a piece of paper and ask someone who eats out a bit what the wording means to them. I tried it. I emailed my editors and simply asked: "Please tell me what you'd expect of a dish described on a menu thus: 'Organic roasted duck & warm spiced o ...

Sweaty Palms

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

Blazing dishes team with lurid decor in a place that's not shy with coconuts.Yai restaurant and take-away628 CROWN STREET, SURRY HILLS.TEL: 9698 2097.Open Lunch Tue-Fri noon-3pm; dinner daily 6-11pm. Licensed/BYO wine only.Tried Chicken tom kha ($8.50), chor muang ($15), goong nang far ($21), kar moo ($18.50), hor mok talay ($19.90), three rice ($7.50).Bottom line for three $90.30Yai is a large cavern of a place with many-coloured walls, bright scarlet ...

Gourmet Dining's Domestic Bliss

Wed, 26 May 2004 00:00:00 EST

CONCERNED about the growing trend of time-poor Australians missing out on meals with the family and increasingly resorting to take-away foods, Kate Hanks decided to take action. The award-winning executive chef, formerly with the Accor Hotel Group and Hunter Region resorts, has joined a new venture, the Gourmet Saint catering service. In-home gourmet meals are prepared for clients for a period of 10 to 14 days, or as a one-off for special occasions like dinner parties. M ...

Sun-soaked Eats At Revamped Grind

Wed, 05 Dec 2001 00:00:00 EST

DARBY St, Cooks Hill, has a new eatery. Grind is a cafe, coffee house, juice bar and al a carte restaurant rolled into one. Owned by Alastair Evans, from the successful Hunter St cafe The Last Drop, with Lane Withers, Jessie Gerner and Vanessa Mervin, the cafe has been an overwhelming success since it opened in the old Emilio's building. But gone is the dark interior of the old Italian eatery. The owners have opened up the interior, knocked out the front wall and p ...

Pide Of Place

Sat, 28 Oct 2000 00:00:00 EST

Take it anywhere, put it with anything, but it must be very, very fresh, writes Joanna Savill. Turkish bread or pide is at its best fresh from the oven: spongy, warm and fluffy inside, lightly crusty on the outside, the taste zapped by the occasional sesame or black cumin seed. It's wonderful with salads and dips, divine as a sandwich and yummy as toast with unsalted butter and thick fruit jam. Or dip it into oil and a spice mix such as Lebanese za'atar or Egyptian dukkah. < ...

Buy A Pizza The Action For $4.95

Sun, 05 Mar 2000 00:00:00 EST

SYDNEYSIDERS have become the big winners in the battle for the hearts and stomachs of pizza lovers. Pizza makers are engaging in a battle for supremacy in the $800 million-a-year market with take-aways being sold for $4.95 and home deliveries for $12.95. Every February the four big operators Eagle Boys, Domino's, Pizza Haven and Pizza Hut try to stake out their market territory by slashing prices. Domino's corporate operations manager Fred Roberts said the companies had ...

Great Scott!

Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:00:00 EST

THE Scott Street Cafe Restaurant in Newcastle East has extended its dinner hours and will now open six nights a week, from Monday to Saturday. The intimate cafe restaurant also offers breakfast and lunch on weekends from 10am until 3pm with menus that change monthly. At the moment the brunch menu features delights like bowls of fresh fruit salad with yogurt and honey, $6.50, toasted Turkish bread sandwich with bacon and eggs, $7, and butter mushrooms with fried polenta, $9.

Meals On Wheels Come Up A Treat

Wed, 29 Jul 1998 00:00:00 EST

A NEW catering business called Le Treat is set to take the panic out of dinner parties. The young trio of Kate Ross, chef James Heads and Alana Partridge bring along all the ingredients for the meal and use the client's kitchen equipment and tableware for the dinner party. Ms Ross said the service meant less stress for those hosting the dinner party and that the presentation of the meal was better as the meals were served direct to the host's plates, rather than being transpor ...