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Macanese Week At The Four Seasons, Circular Quay

Not Quite Nigella — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:00:50 +0000

My friends and I were talking about cuisines that aren’t represented in Sydney. It was hard to pick one as Sydney is so diverse it seems that we have a restaurant for just about every cuisine. “How about Kazakhstani?” I ventured as I recalled trying to brainstorm for a Kazakhstani dinner party and being at a [...]

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Food Society, Darlinghurst

Not Quite Nigella — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:00:03 +0000

I look up and there is a piano suspended from on the wall above. A red chair and a wooden desk greets me to the right. I walk in and down the stairs past the displays of fruit, spices, teapots and vintage couches and spy a couple of old fashioned rotary whisks adorning the walls. Two [...]

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Mulligan’s, Chippendale & Psychic Thursdays

Not Quite Nigella — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:00:29 +0000

For many years now there has been a restaurant that I have passed on the way home. It is sometimes lit up and at other times pitch dark depending on the evening, There are also broad banners proclaiming “Restaurant Of The Year”. And every time we say to ourselves “We must check it out”. And [...]

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A Private Lunch & Interview With Marcus Wareing, Four In Hand, Paddington

Not Quite Nigella — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:00:22 +0000

It’s funny how life changes. Two years ago I dined at Marcus Wareing’s Petrus restaurant (back when he and Gordon Ramsay were business partners) and we had a fantastic meal where every single little course, including the amuses and in between courses sparkled. It was a meal we remembered well because there wasn’t a single jarring [...]

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Corner 75 Hungarian Restaurant, Randwick

Not Quite Nigella — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:00:52 +0000

Last year towards the end of Winter I rang Corner 75 to make a booking. Being that it was on a Saturday night, they were fully booked and it was with a sense of sadness that I realised that it would be another year until I could make another booking. You see I love the [...]

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The Dutch Shop, Smithfield & How The Carrot Got Its Orange Colour

Not Quite Nigella — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:00:42 +0000

I’ve often spoken to my little black book you know the one where I keep my list of “must eat at” restaurants in. One entry that has outlasted this book and the two before was The Dutch Shop in Smithfield. You see we don’t really live close to Smithfield and they have certain opening hours [...]

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Romance, Kingsford

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:00:50 +0000

“Help! I’ve been held hostage by the Russians…” Naomi texts her friend late at night on a Saturday night. No, we haven’t gotten ourselves embroiled in a cross cultural post-Glasnost imbroglio. We’re dining at Romance, a Russian restaurant on a quiet corner in Kingsford. But more on our hostage taking later. Allow me to rewind [...]

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Gelato Bar, Bondi

Not Quite Nigella — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:18:03 +0000

A bunch of well intentioned coffee seekers converged on Gelato Bar one weekend afternoon to partake of coffee only but one glance at the window and we were salivating. “OK maybe if we share something” was the first utterance followed quickly by “I think I could actually have one on my own”. Gelato Bar is [...]

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