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Restaurant Atelier – Glebe

16 January 2012 French
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Those that follow me on twitter may recall a question I put out there recently, asking for suggestions on an Inner West byo restaurant that was suitable for a 50th birthday dinner. Nothing too cheap, nothing over the top. I took all of the suggestions on board but the one that stood out from the [...]

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The Art of French Baking

21 December 2011 Cakes
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My first step through the front door was met with an instant feeling of warmth and desire. The aroma of freshly baked pastry hung in the air, dripping with sweetness from slightly caramelised apricots and sugar. No, I wasn’t stepping into a pâtisserie on a Parisian back-street, I was stepping into my own front door [...]

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SHO Shaun Hergatt – Financial District, NYC

25 November 2011 French
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The diversity of restaurants in New York City is just as you’d expect. You’ve got those street vendors with $1 slices of sloppy pizza or tiny hotdogs, classic diners, swanky dining rooms with pompous waitstaff, bistros and food halls … you name it. A trip to New York where there was no shoestring budget and an Australian dollar [...]

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BistroY…Les Papilles – Paris, France

22 July 2011 France
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For any visitor to Paris it doesn’t take long to figure out the average bistro in this town likes to pack in its clientelle. Very little personal space or elbow room and hearing somebody elses conversation is part and parcel of the experience. Some like it, some don’t, so when it came to eating at this little hot-spot just a [...]

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Bécasse – CBD

4 July 2011 French
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When I think about it, the last time I spent more than four hours in a commercial kitchen was wearing chefs whites, a well-used apron and had asbestos fingertips that could withstand extraordinarily high temperatures. Late nights, not much of a social life and coming home smelling of oil and food. Only a small part of me [...]

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Sur Bourke Espresso Bar – Darlinghurst

20 June 2011 Breakfast/Brunch
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Ever since making the move from apartment life in Pyrmont to buying a house in Erko five years ago, the choice of dining options changed from local cafs & Japanese on the peninsula to sticking around the traps of the Inner West. Heading over to Darlinghurst or Surry Hills doesn’t happen as often as I’d like [...]

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The tale of two bistros – Paris, France

13 June 2011 France
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The humble Parisian bistro is a place that is without doubt embraced and enjoyed by loyal residents that drop in for a weekly feed or a pair of tourists that have blown in yearning a genuine foodie experience that’s off the well-trodden path. While there are many types of bistros around this town ranging from the new [...]

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Just another day in Paris, France

29 April 2011 Coffee
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The last time we stayed in Paris was in a top-floor apartment on boulevard St-Germain overlooking the rooftops and the grandiose Notre Dame, a beautiful area saturated with chocolatiers, bakeries and bistro’s in its web of narrow cobbled alleys. This time it was on the other side of the Seine in the thick of the Marais/Pletzl district, an area [...]

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