Tag Archive: Food and Wine

Jul 26

Savour Sublime Sydney Views Before Savouring a Sublime Meal

Many of the world’s great restaurants involve a journey – the Royal Mail Hotel, the Fat Duck, the French Laundry, and El Bulli, before it closed. And so it was with Berowra Waters Inn that it was necessary to go by way of sky, sea and river and get to savour sublime Sydney views before …

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Jun 29

Chef Dan Hunter and the Royal Mail Hotel at Dunkeld

The food of Chef Dan Hunter and the Royal Mail Hotel at Dunkeld is food worth travelling for and the Grampians region, where it’s located, makes a great escape from Melbourne, and is easily worth a couple of days of your time. We’d been trying to experience the Royal Mail since 2009 when we were …

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Jun 10

A Taste of Two Regions – Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley

One of the best things about Melbourne is that it has some brilliant food and wine regions right on its doorstep. We get a taste of two regions – Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley – on a day trip from Melbourne with Simon, a food and wine guide and sommelier. MORNINGTON PENINSULA  We don’t even need …

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Mar 17

From Taste of Melbourne to Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

Like all good foodie cities, Melbourne in Australia is home to a handful of delicious food festivals, from Taste of Melbourne to Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. It was Taste of Melbourne, held in September, that we used as an excuse to travel here last year and get to know the city’s food scene, and the …

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Mar 08

Eating Out In Melbourne: from European to Asian and Back Again

You can take a culinary trip around the world, eating out in Melbourne – from Europe to Asia and back again – and that’s virtually what we did on our recent foodie trip, eating everything from Italian, French and British to Japanese, Thai and regional Chinese. To Australians, this kind of eating isn’t unusual. Like …

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