It is early autumn and the Ovens River slides quietly over the rocks below the gardens of Ginger Baker. It is one of the long warm days that…
It’s time to wine and dine on the Apple Isle Why eat in a bland room when you can dine in an orchard, on a tiny island or…
A truly excellent new Japanese restaurant in Melbourne’s CBD is quite literally a hidden gem. Melbourne’s newest and most exclusive Japanese restaurant is genuinely hard to find. It’s…
The unique freeze-dried range of ingredients from Fresh As has finally launched in Australia. Keen to plate up desserts and savoury dishes like an uber-cool three-hat chef? Then…
These three brands of delicious fishes are a world away from the sharp little hairy strips found on top of suburban pizzas. These are packaged umami, meaty and…
The Dal Zotto family, known for pioneering Australia’s very first prosecco in Victoria’s King Valley, love nothing more than to share their love of food, wine, and friendship.…
North East Victoria has a new fine dining restaurant that cements Beechworth as one of the nation’s best food and wine destinations. The Empire Hotel, Beechworth, is a…
As tourism booms in Malta, international guests and their sophisticated palates have demanded finer dining. Drawing on the island’s rich past, Hammett’s Maċina Restaurant opened late in February…
The late afternoon sun floods Albury’s central park with golden light. Bounded by the city’s art musueum, court house, entertainment centre and the 19th-century St Matthew’s Church, the…
The Hyatt’s latest addition to the Australian hospitality landscape comes complete with a brilliant new destination restaurant. Since Mr McCracken opened at the base of Hyatt Place, Essendon…
A Tiny Place reminds me of a Lilliputian version of Stephanie’s, the eponymous Melbourne restaurant of Stephanie Alexander who championed local seasonal produce and French technique. A Tiny Place…
Rinaldo’s Casa Cucina new Wangaratta riverside location and gelato bar is the perfect group destination for summer. Chef Adam Pizzini is sitting pretty in the new Ovens River…
Melbourne’s MoVida crew launches their latest venture in true Spanish style – welcome to Bar Tini. The greatest bars in Spain are very simple affairs. There’s a bar,…
In the historic heart of Melbourne, among the high fashion and highly polished mosaic tiles of the 1892 Block Arcade, is a stylish slice of the Australian bush.…
Chorizo is the ruby-red Spanish sausage that has taken over the world with its heady fragrant punch of Spanish paprika or pimentón. The richness of pork and pork…
Now tell me,’ says The Henry Austin’s owner, Max Mason, ‘what was the worst part of your meal.’ Flummoxed by the question and thoroughly impressed by the quality…
As Melbourne and Sydney’s upmarket eateries tweak their offerings, jostling to maintain market share, one Sydney restaurant strikes a clever balance without stooping to the lows of burgers…
Andre Kogut is a gentle man with a generous smile and a burning passion for kefir. He has been producing one of the best-fermented yogurt products in the…
Smother it with sauce, serve it with shiraz, pass the salt: it’s a case of reheat and repeat down the back of the plane. A lifetime ago, I was…
Photography Diana Delucia Carved into the hickory and sycamores in New York’s Westchester County is the Winged Foot Golf Club. This exclusive club is just a few kilometres…
There is a saying in Spain that if produce is good, can it. Unlike Australia where the canning industry is, well, just an industry, in Spain it is…
This fiano from Victoria‘s Alpine Valleys region is hand-crafted by the energetically talented alternative-varietals ‘queen’, winemaker Jo Marsh, formerly of Seppelt Great Western. A few years back she…
Beetroot Cured Ocean Trout with fennel, orange and nigella seed salad, horseradish crème fraiche Beetroot Pickle (for curing) 6 small beetroot, cooked, peeled and grated 1 cup water…
It’s astonishing just how offensive people can be about vegetarians. That’s what Richard Cornish discovered when he flipped his daily meat habit on its head and went cold…
Chef Peter Gunn plays a risky game. In a dining world where restaurant menus are developed over several months he walks a precarious tightrope, sometimes creating dishes with…
Just 30 steps from the Summit Chairlift you’ll find this smart all-day casual diner fitted out with local native timber from the Mount Beauty mill. Soft banquettes, freestanding…
Rocco Esposito’s gnocchi alla romana is an exercise in simplicity and authenticity. Fat discs of polenta are smothered in crumbled blue cheese then heated under the grill until…
The annual Victorian cider pressing season is coming to an end and to celebrate Movida Aqui Melbourne is recreating the atmosphere of the Basque Country’s traditional ciders houses. On Saturday…
Chrismont Wines’s sleek new King Valley cellar door could be considered a sharpened-up new-world version of ‘Streamline Moderne’ – an architectural style of the late Art Deco era that emphasised long…
In the mountain village town of Myrtleford on Victoria’s Great Alpine Road, the fresh tang of basil fills the air, carried by the steam rising from the hot pasta.…