Under a fickle Sydney sky, The Spot Food and Film Festival took place on March 7, 2010. St Pauls Street and Perouse Road in Randwick were closed to traffic allowing pedestrians to roam freely around market stalls selling anything from jewellery to cakes, food and fresh produce.
An initiative of the Randwick City Council and now [...]

When you pass through the glass door frontage of South Sydney Junior Rugby League Club and take the escalator up one level, you become acquainted with a daytime world which revolves around the turns and tunes of poker machines; a domain with its own rhythm that is unfamiliar to the working crowd. Towards the far [...]

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 or [...]

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 be [...]

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 [...]

Dining at Petrossian has been on our list of decadent things to do but we are yet to make it to Restaurant Le 144 in Paris’ 7th arrondissement. Until we are able to realise that dream of ordering off la carte des caviars, we did the next best thing.
About Petrossian

Petrossian is a name synonymous with [...]

Take a moment to imagine…
The instant Beluga caviar makes contact with your tongue…
Sipping on a flute of your favourite Champagne then drinking a freshly chucked oyster…
Slowly peeling a just-ripe banana and taking that first taste…
The moment strawberries lusciously dipped in melted chocolate meet your mouth…
Indulging your visual senses in perfectly shaped figs before that first [...]

Unlike its more popular cousins, the northern Italian town of Mogliano Veneto does not attract many tourists. One quick stroll through its quiet streets confirms its status as a serene location for residents of the Veneto who prefer a more quiet way of life.
With our unfamiliar faces and a camera bag draping over one shoulder, [...]

A reader living abroad asked where he could find the best chicken in Australia. I explained that the best chicken in the land of Oz comes from the Barossa Valley in the state of South Australia. The region is also renowned for producing some great wines such as the coveted Penfolds  Grange Hermitage, Grant Burge [...]