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The Corner House, Bondi

Not Quite Nigella — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:00:35 +0000

I have to mentally prepare myself when entering hipster joints. I have to tell myself that they’re just hipsters and they mean well enough and that they don’t harm anyone really. For good measure I remember the quote from Seinfeld when they referred to Kramer as the “hipster doofus” and realise that being a hipster [...]

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Honeycomb, Darlinghurst

Not Quite Nigella — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:00:36 +0000

Some may call it gossip, I prefer to call it a catch up and when you haven’t seen a girlfriend in weeks or even months, well I think that the polite thing to do is avail yourself of all of the girly gossip ahem…current affairs you can. Except of course if you’re sitting elbow to [...]

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The Montpellier Public House, Randwick

Not Quite Nigella — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:00:30 +0000

“Mother, I’m dropping off something in a few minutes” I said on the phone one night. “What is it?” she asked. “A pig’s head” I said bracing myself for the inevitable. “A whaaaat?” she asked, aghast. Allow me to explain how a delivery of a roasted (not raw) pig’s head came to come about. You [...]

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Neild Avenue, Rushcutters Bay

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:00:44 +0000

“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 don’t really care what happens to them so they’re my adventure pants. I’m sitting at the bar of Neild Avenue at 6:15pm one Friday night. I was [...]

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Mrs Sippy, Double Bay

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:00:03 +0000

At the risk of telling you my exact age it has been decades since I was last checked in by a bouncer outside an establishment. Although I should add that I only went to establishments that had bouncers when I was a teenager and therefore it was more exciting to get in when you were [...]

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From The Farm To A Dinner Plate At Concrete Blonde

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:00:35 +0000

Mondays are my day in. The weekends are always hectic and whilst I still work on Monday I rarely venture out of the house as that requires a kerfuffle that I just can’t muster. But when the email arrived in my inbox to ask if I would be interested in more than a dining experience [...]

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Time To Vino, Darlinghurst

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:00:31 +0000

The LPs on this wall all have a wine theme to the name I’m having a deju vu moment. I look around and my mind appears to be spinning and my surroundings melting. I remember I used to dine in this space way back when it was a Hyatt Kingsgate hotel and it used to [...]

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L’étoile, Paddington

Not Quite Nigella — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:00:47 +0000

“Why are we sitting in the naughty corner?” I ask Joan Holloway taking a seat at a banquette table in the corner of the L’étoile restaurant and putting my bag down. “Manu is hosting a children’s birthday in the back” she answers smiling. “Are you making that up?” I ask laughing. “No I’m not! Besides…” she [...]

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Fei Jai, Potts Point

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:00:11 +0000

As Chinese parents who bring up children in English speaking countries are wont to do, my parents gave my sister and I Chinese names as well as English ones. My name translated from Chinese into English means “Little Pretty” (although my mother would often sniff that I had more in common with my English name [...]

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Twin Peaks, Food Trivia & A Birthday Party, LL Wine And Dine, Potts Point

Not Quite Nigella — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:00:00 +0000

The XXX wall There is one thing that all of my close friends have in common. They are fabulous people – gifted people even and when my friends meet my other friends the common remark is “Your friends are really nice!” It’s absolutely true, I hand pick all of them and they are the brightest and sweetest cherries in the box. [...]

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