Food, drink and fun | theduckinnpubandkitchen. When you are settling in after a beer or two, you may decide it’s time to grab something to eat. We have a great range of bar snacks or you can be tempted by our yummy menu. And to make sure you have the perfect meal, you can choose a glass or bottle of wine from our wine list. Bubbles and White Wine Red Wine Going to the Seymour Centre? For Seymour Centre patrons, we have a special offer – a main and dessert for $26! Like this: Like Loading... Jackie M Malaysian Cuisine, Concord, Sydney — The Food Pornographer. Morena, Surry Hills. There are certain challenges when trying to introduce a cuisine into a country especially one largely unsampled and unheard of. And for years native Peruvian chef Alejandro Saravia has toiled trying to introduce his country's cuisine to Australia through his Taste of Peru dinners and[ cooking classes]( chef-alejandro-saravia/).
There is the struggle against using ingredients like guinea pig which many people associate with Peruvian cuisine, lest it become a gimmicky cuisine. There is also the wider misconception that Peruvian food is just like Mexican food or Spanish food. Fast forward to a few years later and after working in kitchens across Sydney (Pier, Sails and El Bulli) and biding his time, Alejandro has finally stepped out into the spotlight with a restaurant of his own making the food that he wants to, with Morena serving modern Latin American cuisine.
Chef Alejandro Saravia What does Morena mean?
Bar H | Sydney Food Blog – I dream in chocolate. I don’t usually buy group buying coupons. I tend to be the person that thinks they are a waste of money. After seeing so many people with bad experiences with group buying coupons it has turned me off. After seeing quite a good and positive reviews about Bar H, I decided to purchased the coupon on spreets for $79. Bar H have changed their menu to more of a Asian-inspired dishes, previously it was modern Australia. We were only given two seatings 6pm & 8:30pm. I had to quickly dashed to the city from work and trying to arrive on time at 6pm, the perks of not working in the city.
Pickled cucumber salad. Steamed pork wontons with chilli oil dressing. Braised beef on sesame leaf. Calamari salad with fresh herbs. Deep fried tofu with caramelised tomato. Crispy Chilli chicken. Caramelised beef with fresh fennel and radish. Iceberg & Herb salad Overall it’s such a great deal for $79 dollars. 80 Campbell St Surry Hills, NSW. The Winery by Gazebo, Surry Hills | minibites – a Sydney food blog. The Winery has been around for quite some time now, and since my last visit it has been busy expanding its cheeky elegant glamour all over Sydney. All aside, it’s a gorgeous sunny day, and time to wind down with our annual company lunch banquet, so it’s back to Crown St! The interior is an amusing mix, much like walking into the vintage store of a hoarder; overmelted candles, animal prints, uncoordinated draped curtains, stuffed animals on the wall and mismatching photo frames and furniture.
Veal & chorizo sausage roll with tomato & chilli jam Rocket, parmesan, grapefruit & pinenut salad Stuffed roasted mushrooms with ricotta, pineuts & pesto To kick start our lunch feast, there’s fresh breads to share along with an amazing gourmet sausage roll, simple rocket salad and stuffed mushrooms. Sauteed pumpkin & ricotta ravioli, sage, pine nuts, burnt butter & confit cherry tomatoes Slow roasted sirloin, creamy mash, caramelised eschallots & a Pinot jus Like this: Like Loading...
When the world stops spinning. ♥ - The Winery, Surry Hills. Bodega revisit, Surry Hills. It’s been a year since my last visit, and it is still my favourite tapas place in Sydney! I was catching up with M1 and M2, they both have yet to come here, so thought I would suggest it. Both Elvis Abrahanowicz and Ben Milgate are permanently at Porteno, so Nic Wong and Joel Humpreys have taken over the reigns as head chefs of Bodega and I was keen to see what they had to offer. The menu is still quite similar to last year. We started with the chipotle pulled pork steamed buns with pickled carrots ($6 each) – these little babies were absolutely delightful!
Tender, succulent pulled pork with soft steamed buns, it was so easy to eat half a dozen of these. The poached ocean trout dolmades with green chilli yogurt ($6 each) were a hit amongst the diners. Couldn’t go past the fried spiced calamari with aioli ($18) – luscious calamari with spices and the aioli was just like icing on the cake.
The mushroom and garlic ($12) was lovely, strong garlicky flavour. GA’s ratings: 8.5 / 10. Neild Avenue, Rushcutters Bay. This restaurant has now closed "So anyway, I was wearing what I call my adventure pants" my friend Ute leans over and tells me. "Adventure pants? " I ask. "They're cream linen pants. I'm sitting at the bar of Neild Avenue at 6:15pm one Friday night. The menu is shown to us (a stapled sheaf of pages) and a lovely young waitress from New Zealand takes our order. Complimentary bread I look around. The kitchen with kebabs and breads in the window Baked eggplant $17 Our starter is the baked eggplant covered with 12 hour cooked pork mince ragu and then topped with a white sauce of kasseri (Greek cheese) and pecorino cheese.
Fake Tabouli salad $12 There's a large break between the eggplant and mains. Coal grilled leather jackets on the bone $35 We were choosing between the calamari, leather jacket or john dory and although I always love john dory we went with the waitress's recommendation of leather jackets. Half free range crispy duck $42 "How about we get the Sweet pie? " "What? Sweet Pie $14. Pendolino, Sydney | Penguin says Feed Me! Penguin says Feed Me A Sydney food blog Skip to content ← El Karim, Roseville Ribs and Burgers, Neutral Bay → Pendolino, Sydney Posted on December 8, 2011 by Jacq Hidden away in a corner of the top level of the Strand Arcade is Pendolino.
Burrata pugliese con pomodori di vareita primaria - $26 When I spot burrata on the menu I’m sold. Spaghetti chitarra con pesce d'acquadolce - $26/$39 Pendolino hand make their pastas so I was keen to try them out. Pappardelle con ragu di vitella e maggiorana - $24/$37 Be warned: this pappardelle with White Rocks veal ragu, marjoram and bone marrow is super rich! Risotto di anatra, funghi di bosco e piselli - $26/$39 I’ve always been apprehensive about ordering risotto at restaurants for fear that it will come out gluggy and dense, and Sir D just doesn’t like risotto at all.
Tonno alle erbe con maccu, cicoria e cozze nere - $39 I choose the seared herb and garlic crusted yellow fin tuna which is served with steamed mussels and a dried broad bean puree. Jamie’s Italian, Sydney | J.B. José. UPDATED: New post on Jamie’s Italian located here. Unsatisfied with multiple hit TV shows, books, restaurants and membership in the Order of the British Empire, Jamie Oliver continues the next phase of his plan for Culinary World Dominance. His first Sydney restaurant, Jamie’s Italian, officially opened its doors today.
At BC’s behest, R and myself were ready to try out this new place; we even left for lunch earlier than usual to beat the queue. No bookings are taken for groups less than 6. Jamie’s Italian is housed in the premises that used to house the flailing Industrie, a Southern French restaurant. The downstairs area when Industrie occupied it felt particularly foreboding – it was a narrow moodily-lit hall with immaculately placed settings. Downstairs Upstairs, the interior’s marked contrast from its past continues. Upstairs The bar has been converted to a deli station, where one can sit and watch all things cured be prepared. Upstairs delicatessen Monachelle Puttanesca $12.00/$17.50. Restaurant Arras, Sydney. Restaurant Arras has relocated to Clarence Street, where the former Becasse used to be. I like what they have done to the place – the decorators has truly done an excellent job!
The mural on one side, the spacious area, it’s truly very different to the old Arras. I was catching up with the lovely M, she hasn’t been to Arras before, so suggested it. Diners can choose either a four course a la carte for $120 or degustation for $140, accompanying wine $80. The menu is slightly different, concept is still quite similar. We were informed that the chef ‘wanted to create something that’s different to everything else in Sydney, and trying to move away from that British fare’. We started with complimentary canapes – smoked salmon croquette with egg, and some sort of blue cheese dip on crackers. Amuse bouche, tuna tartare which was served with some sort of puree (which I can’t remember for the life of me!) Like the old Arras, they offered a selection of in-house baked bread. GA’s ratings: 7.5 / 10. Quay, Sydney - grabyourfork. Restaurant review: Arras.
Rating: 15/20 Grown up ... the sparkling white Arras shuns Sydney's dining trends. Photo: Domino Postiglione Reviewer rating: Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Reader rating: Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars (20 votes) Clearly, chefs Adam and Lovaine Humphrey haven't read the manual. Well, no. It's an unusual Sydney dining experience. The one dish you must try ... meuniere of groper, cabbage and mussels. In keeping with their vision of a ''grown-up'' restaurant, the Humphreys have moved beyond tongue-in-cheek reinventions of British food to a more detailed, manipulated, modern-European cooking style, with references to France's Michel Bras, among others. Advertisement The four-course menu lists little more than brief titles such as ''reconditioned whiting'', ''Saturday lunch salad'' and ''migrating pigeon'', so every dish comes to the table as a surprise.
It is, perhaps, a more appropriate first course than the real one, a contrived ''tomato salad''. Tdurack@smh.com.au Arras Licensed Yes.
Australian Youth Hotel Restaurant, Glebe. No darlings, I haven't gone all YWCA on you. When Joan Holloway suggested lunching at the Australia Youth Hotel I did a double take. Because I don't know about you but I like my sheets crisp and toiletries aplenty and slippers fluffy. But I also know that Joan Holloway has good taste and knows my comfort zone very well. And she knows I'm all about food-and hell even if it were in a youth hostel if the food was good I'd visit it (just not stay there overnight). Parking Purdie the Prius in nearby Broadway Shopping Centre I take the short walk to the Australia Youth Hotel where I bump into Joan H. outside. I follow her through the pub to the restaurant area. There's an inside area and an outdoor courtyard area which is the perfect place for a sunny lunch if the weather is good (and let's ignore this week's downpour). Entree share plate for two $24 We chose the entree share plate because that meant that we could get to try a few different flavours.
Char grilled Bangalow pork loin $27. Suckling Pig Recipe, Bungalow 8. Warning: this post contains images of whole pig "I don't suppose it's a good idea to name her" I say surveying the 7 kilo piglet on the tray. I'm talking to George Diamond who is the Group Executive Chef for the Keystone Group's restaurants including Bungalow 8 where tomorrow we are to have a porcine feast with eight of my friends. "We can call her Miss Piggy" he says smiling. "Done! " Miss Piggy is why I'm standing in the kitchen, chef's jacket on and surveying a pig the day before my most pork loving friends and I are going to gather at Bungalow 8.
Group Executive Chef George Diamond Previously known for more bar food and the ubiquitous all you can mussels, pies and fish and chips, they've now revamped the menu to try and lure more food lovers that want something beyond deep fried bar food. Started only three weeks ago the suckling pig is their new signature dish and even though it is new in concept they sell about seven pigs a week. Miss Piggy cooling by the fan Oh no! Frying the roti Rub. Paddington Arms Hotel, Paddington.
Paddington Arms which is located on the busy street of Oxford Street in Paddington is the new venture for the two-hatted Four in Hand restaurant, Colin Fassnidge. Together with one of his old sous chefs, Neil Thompson , they have created a menu that is quite similar to Four in Hand, promoting nose to tail eating with a more relaxed feel. I quite like what they have done to the place, the spacious area and the booths, it’s indeed very casual and a great place to hang out with friends over a nice meal.
Now the food is no ordinary pub grub – it has an English / Irish twist to it, I really enjoy the food at Four in Hand, so had high expectations and it did not disappoint. I was meeting with the lovely suzchef. We have heard wonderful things about this place and we are both HUGE fans of Four in Hand. We thought we would share a couple of dishes and we are SO glad that we did – not sure how anyone could have finished it on its own! The crispy skin, it was perfect. GA’s ratings: 8 / 10. El Loco Mexican Cantina, Surry Hills. My fondest memories growing up had to be hot summers in downtown Los Angeles running amuck in Olivera St - A little laneway which was a destination for some yummy authentic mexican food.
My family would always take me to this awesome mexican restaurant and little Gianna had tacos to her hearts content, if I finished my meal and managed to behave myself I would get to buy some mexican jumping beans from the street vendors. I was easily amused back then, as I still am now. For the last couple of years, we Sydney-siders have been deprived of some banging mexicano - sure we've had cafe pacifico, baja cantina and flying fajitas in Glebe, but in just in the last year a number of new places have been jumping up like those little jumping beans. Many stress the point that El Loco isn't authentic..oh really? What I love about it is that it captures the fun and it the whole "celebratory" feel of mexican food. The Excelsior Hot Dog ($9) Taco Taco Taco..Taco flavored kisses..laced with corriander.
The Dip, Sydney City. The Dip is one of the latest Dude Food joints to hit Sydney and word about their tasty Hot Dawgs (that's Hot Dog for any baby boomers and Gen X-ers reading the post) and Pulled Pork Sandwich's has been the talk of the foodie town for weeks. What's Dude Food I hear my fleet of (one or two) baby-booming readers ask?
Simply put it is American style junk/fast food cooked by cool and hip young chefs. The food usually has an Asian or Mexican spin to it, and pork as well as tooth achingly sweet desserts are a must. This article pretty much covers if it you're keen to know more...or not. I quickly gathered up a group of food-blogging Dudettes (aka chicks who like to eat Dude Food cooked by cool and hip young chefs) to come and try this place out with me one Friday night. As is the case with the food-blogger catch ups I've been too the scene is generally chaos. For starters I push heavily for the Grilled Corn ($8.00) as corn is one of my all time favourite vegetables. The Carrington, Surry Hills. Omage restaurant review | Terry Durack.
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