If you like seafood fresh from the catch, these days you really have to catch it yourself of go down to the market and make friends with a fishmonger. However, at the township of Strahan in the southwest corner of Tasmania there’s a fish and chip shop that sells the freshest and best value seafood […]
Just stumbled onto this cool vid of a restaurant in Japan.
Over lunch with Michael Hince we reminisced about dining in Melbourne in the 1980s. We really missed: Hermann Schneider’s Two Faces in Toorak and then at Delgany Glo Glos in Toorak Fannys in Lonsdale street, Melbourne CBD Rogalsky’s in South Melbourne Memories of the Mediterranean in Melbourne CBD Last Aussie Fish Caf in South Melbourne […]
These look like an interesting dinner conversation piece!
Had my last bottle of 2000 La Massa Giorgio Primo Toscana with a roast beef tonight. Just an awesome wine and drinking very well. Perfumed, sweet and awesome length…
We finally had to get our Our Smeg SA708X oven serviced. It hadn’t been working on fan-forced for a few months. So the broken bits included 2 door hinges which caused the microswitch on the door to short because it wasn’t holding the door closed firmly. The blown microswitch, and two light bulbs.
OK – I just found my old blogger account and thought I’d rejuvenate it after a 2 year hiatus. I’m going to write about my photography, food and wine stuff and travel thoughts right here! To get things started, here are some recent photos of the Australian and Victorian Barista championships: http://www.thelows.org/syd/austbarcomp/http://www.thelows.org/syd/austbarheats/http://www.thelows.org/syd/VicBarComp/
We went to Tojo’s tonight with Andrzej, Carolyn and Stefan. Here’s a pic of me and Hidekazu Tojo. Andrzej’s been going there since he opened so is a very long term regular! Had some very cool dishes including crab, blue-fin toro, sable fish and shitake mushrooms…
Tom Akama’s a private ski instructor by day and restaurateur by night. His restaurant is inside the Westin. Great suki yaki.
Sachi Sushi – chef Toshiyuki Kobayashi
We’ve settled into Whistler after an eventful week. We left Kew on 2 February and caught the Qantas flight 25 to Los Angeles via Auckland. We stayed two nights in Los Angeles for Greta to recover from the plane trip. Our hotel in LA was the Los Angeles Airport Marriott but after we checked in […]
