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The maddest beer I’ve ever tasted. The De Molen brewery’s Hel & Verdoemenis (Hell & Damnation) beer is a stout that’s got a taste all to itself. Not my cup of tea. I like their other stout Tsarina Esra better.

If you’re after some interesting beer give Hopfix from Denmark a try. Brewed by Christian Skovdal Andersen the beer is described as “copper coloured India Pale Ale with plenty of fruity hop flavor and aroma. It features a dry finish and a firm bitterness balanced by chewy caramel malt. The ale is brewed with rye […]

I love a good piece of fried fish. So from The Age: Best all-rounder Red Mullet Best grilled fish Hunky Dory Best battered fish Clamms Fast Fish Best chips Ol’ School Fish ’n’ Chips Best selection Fish Tank Best healthy fish and chips Hooked Best milkshake Red Mullet Clamms Fast Fish 141 Acland Street, St […]

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 […]

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 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 […]