It’s a steamy summer’s night in Sydney and four friends converge at Cellini’s Ristorante and Pizzeria in Randwick. Two couples, two bottles of vino, an evening that easily translate to countless conversations on what has become a habitual  pizza on a Friday night. Cellini’s is one of those places that grabs your attention when walking [...]

Photo opportunities in Paris abound at every corner. One only needs to glance up at a Haussman-style building or notice the pattern of chairs and tables outside a café to feel the urge to trip the shutter. But sometimes a little foray into a relatively unknown location goes a long way into providing an opportunity [...]

Until airline passengers can be beamed from A to B like Star Trek, or knocked out in coffin-like capsules as in The Fifth Element, you can be assured that somewhere along your airborne journey you will experience at least one of the following flight annoyances. 1. The older woman swaying in the air conditioning breeze [...]

At Jamie’s Italian in London, it feels like we’ve stepped into another world. Outside, the streets of Canary Wharf are almost deserted. Their surface is covered with a sheen of rain falling consistently on a cool and wet October weeknight. Inside the restaurant, the place is buzzing, much like London during our brief visit. “It’ll [...]

You could watch the muted colours darken or the moored boats nod gently over rippled waters… – Photograph taken in the town of Lenno.

Unlike the previous visit to Adriano Zumbo, the queue wasn’t spilling out onto the footpath. It might have had something to do with Sydney’s incessant rain or the impending Valentine’s Day celebrations. Inside the pâtisserie, people waited in an Indian file for their turn, their eyes feasting on the colourful display of gourmandises behind the [...]

On an overly humid and wet Saturday morning, two foodies ventured over Sydney’s Anzac Bridge for a day of gourmet shopping. They visited the recently opened Essential Ingredient store at Rozelle. They remembered the heady days when they used to shop regularly at the Camperdown store. They examined the selection of condiments and cooking supplies on [...]