Author: Chris Singh

With two restaurants now open across Melbourne – Kew hotspot Mister Bianco and fresh face Massi – Chef Joseph Vargetto and his teams have decided to embrace Australia’s truffle season by launching a new dinner series celebrating everyone’s favourite fungi this August. The exclusive truffle events will run over four nights, marrying the sought after…

Sydney’s Munich Brauhaus and Bavarian Bier Cafe venues across Sydney, Melbourne, and Queensland will make celebrating National Chicken Wing Day (it’s an American thing, but when has that ever stopped us?) this Friday a hell of a lot cheaper than usual as they prepare to dish out chicken wings for 10 cents each. With a…

Announced today, Uber’s popular crowd-sourced food delivery service, UberEATS, has finally made its way on over to Sydney after recently making its Australian debut in Melbourne. The on-demand meal delivery service from Uber has been a major player in the industry around the globe since making an impact in various U.S and European cities last…

Mark Best’s popular Pei Modern Sydney in the flashy Four Seasons will welcome the team from Young Henrys this week for a collaborative mid-winter feast. Part of their “Paddock to Plate” series, the restaurant are making use of several YH products – craft beer, cloudy cider, and gin – with an exclusively designed pairing menu…

Sydney’s batch of niche food festivals may just hit its peak this weekend as, just six days after the city saw its first dedicated fried chicken festival, we are getting a damn doughnut festival, and some of the best are on board. By best we’re talking the likes of: Doughnut Time, My Donut Box, Woah…

Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards, which are held each year in partnership with Gourmet Traveller WINE, have today been announced, a result of the heady task that is sorting through the country’s top restaurants to arrive at the very best being offered in 2016. Each year, the list of awards serves as an…

OzHarvest are bringing back their annual Think.Eat.Save event this week, aiming to feed members of the public for free in cities both major and regional across Australia. Set up on Monday 25th July from 11:30am to 2:30pm, the food rescue organisation and some of the best Chefs in Australia will dish up plates made from…

It’s World Tequila Day today, bringing cause to celebrate one of the best and most diverse spirits in the world, a spirit which has seen numerous expressions and inventive cocktails pop up across decades. While there are plenty of ways to go out and celebrate Tequila (that don’t involve cheap shots in a backpacker bar)…

The Walking Dead fans are either still reeling from the Season 6 finale’s vague cliffhanger, or are confident they know who was on the receiving end of Negan’s bloody barb-wired baseball bat/inanimate love interest. One things for sure though, we’re all holding out for a definitive answer, as soul-crushing as the reveal may be. Fan…

AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead has struggled to find a consistent point of quality one and a half seasons into it’s increasingly undead world. And while television trailers are traditionally manufactured to play on #hype, it is really looking like the spin-off will shake mediocrity in the back of half of season two. Debuted at…

British talk show host (and truly one of the only entertaining ones out there) Graham Norton has been dabbling in a completely different trade as of late, partnering with inventive New Zealand winemaker Invivo to produce his very own Sauvignon Blanc. This isn’t the first time a celebrity has gone hands-on with the wine business,…

As part of their worldwide 150th anniversary celebrations, iconic brand Jack Daniel’s are bringing a unique experience to Australian Whisky fans, planning free “A Journey through 150 Years of Craft & Cocktail Culture” masterclasses and tastings that are said to take guests back to 1920s prohibition era and beyond. JD’s Assistant Master Distiller Chris Fletcher…

From now up until 9th October Sydney’s artsy French style hotel Sofitel Sydney Wentworth will be offering their guests and visitors an art-inspired high tea that has been designed to celebrate the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Archibald Prize for this year. As an official partner for the portrait prize, the property has tasked…

Trained under prominent Brooklyn-based pitmaster Nestor Laracuente, Sydney based BBQ champ Dan the Man has decided that his hometown should never want for low-and-slow BBQ, making plans to introduce a new “Up In Smoke” series to kick off this August. Setting up shop the first Friday of every month for the rest of the year,…

For their monthly Burger Lords series, controversial Chippendale pub The Lord Gladstone have put together a fresh new creation they are triumphantly calling The Wu-Tang Baoger. Seemingly, the pub crew have reached found this recipe in the slums of Shaolin, crafting something not even Raekwon the Chef has cooked up before, mashing up a bao…

Melbourne burger don Dani Zeini (Dandenong Pavilion, Easy’s, Truck Stop Deluxe, and more) is planning on bringing his popular Royal Stacks up the east coast to Sydney’s Chatswood in a little over a month from now. Confirmed recently, the popular burger joint will be opening up its first ever NSW store in Westfield Chatswood, sharpening…

Down in the depths of glamorous basement haunt Crystal Bar, part of the GPO Grand precinct, Sydneysiders will now a find a gourmet “cheeseburger collection” which has been worked up in collaboration between GPO Cheese & Wine Room and Prime Steak Restaurant. With a range of artisan farmhouse cheeses and Prime’s daily made tartare-inspired beef…

After eight years standing tall as a Surry Hills favourite, Sugarcane has finally seen a second location. Chef and owner Milan Strbac is set for a little seachange with this one, this week launching the new iteration of the South-East Asian eatery as a 100-seated, seafood-focused restaurant located on the southern end of Coogee’s beautiful…

The full program for the sixth annual Sydney Craft Beer Week – the city’s largest and most comprehensive celebration of craft beer – has been revealed, promising a huge range of events from Friday 21st to Sunday 20th October. International brewery guests, hair of the dog brekkies, beer matched chocolate desserts, sausage making classes, history…

Surry Hills institution The Norfolk is, for the third year in a row, bringing back its popular Tinnie Festival this August, staging another epic showdown of Man Versus Can as they bring in tinnies from around the world. For Tinnie Fest, the Norfolk crew are planning a series of fun tinnie-themed events on Sunday 7th…

Brisbane’s James St will be closing the street for the very first time at the end of this month to welcome back the 5th annual James Street Food & Wine Trail, which has now grown to include a packed program with some of the best local food and drink. Across the weekend, on Saturday 30th…

Now in it’s fifth year, Margaret River Gourmet Escape has proved to be one of the most unique and celebrated food and wine festivals in Australia, a three day extravaganza curated by some of the leading chefs and personalities in the world. For the event’s fifth year, the organisers have managed to pull together a…

Following another successful Good Food Month, the Good Food Guide Awards presented by Vittoria and Citi have swept through Brisbane to celebrate the best of the best across numerous categories, including “Vittoria Coffee Restaurant of the Year” and “Bar of the Year”. Hats have also been given (or taken away) as the authoritative body has…

Highlighting some of the best in the country, Melbourne’s 8th annual Sommeliers Australia Long Lunch will be returning to Albert Park early August with wines and dishes from three of the city’s best establishments – Embla, Rockpool Bar and Grill, and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal. A three-way battle of sommelier supremacy will be pitting Christan…

Awarded chef Jason Atherton and his exciting Sydney establishment Kensington Street Social have been pulling their weight at The Old Clare Hotel for months, and now that they have a growing following the team have decided to kick up their offerings to include an Express Lunch menu. From Monday through to Wednesday, KSS will be…

With International IPA Day (Sunday 7th August) coming up, the best teams in Australia’s craft beer scene are no doubt going to be coming out with special brews to celebrate. To get the ball rolling, the legendary 4 Pines Brewing Company have jumped into the brewery with Sydney’s Grain Bar to create an exclusive India…

Being that it’s truffle season, and pretty much everyone with a palate can’t get enough of the rich ingredient, renowned providore-cafe-bar Salt Meats Cheese have unsurprisingly gotten involved with the delicacy in a big way, bringing a dedicated truffle menu exclusively to their Drummoyne and Broadway locations. The very mention of truffles is enough to…

Sydneysiders are gearing up for the epic return of the Italian Wine and Food Festival which takes place at Sydney Town Hall on Sunday 21st August for 10 hours of the best the city has to offer, from chefs and restaurants, to providores and wine distributors. Rows of stalls and cooking demonstrations are set up…

Cuckoo Callay may be best known for their annual Bacon Festival Menu, but this chirpy Newtown café deserves a closer look at their ever-changing all day menu, which has recently been overhauled for the winter season. We’re not talking about one or two additional dishes either; the owners regularly experiment with massive, inventive combinations that…

Apex burger joint Pub Life Kitchen have ventured on down to the former digs of Darlinghurst’s notorious Club 77 (where Starfuckers regularly had night-crawlers in a frenzy), which was recently overturned and transformed into a stylish subterranean diner simply called 77. In the underground diner, PLK have set up a residency called PLK Express, offering…