Lara Dunston

A travel and food writer who has experienced over 70 countries and written for The Guardian, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Feast, Delicious, National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Travel+Leisure Southeast Asia, DestinAsian, TIME, CNN, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, AFAR, Wanderlust, International Traveller, Get Lost, Four Seasons Magazine, Fah Thai, Sawasdee, and more, as well as authored more than 40 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, DK, Footprint, Rough Guides, Fodors, Thomas Cook, and AA Guides.

Contemporary Australian Cuisine, Food Worth Getting On a Plane For

Contemporary Australian cuisine is best exemplified in the inventive dishes served in its best restaurants, where in recent decades a unique form of fusion cuisine has emerged, rooted in Australia’s multicultural heritage, global flavours and techniques, and beautiful home-grown produce. It all starts with a sublime sashimi of Corner Inlet rock flathead, Tasmanian trumpeter, salt cured wild oyster cream, … Read more

Worlds 50 Best Restaurants List – Controversy, Criticism and Why The List Matters

Worlds 50 Best Restaurants List – Criticism, Controversy and Why It Matters. El Celler de Can Roca, Girona, Spain. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

The Worlds 50 Best Restaurants list attracts controversy and criticism soon after it’s released. Every. Single. Year. Yet despite its flaws, if nothing else, the global guide to the world’s best fine dining establishments is a handy list for globetrotting foodies. Here’s why it still matters. Industry awards, annual polls and best lists are nearly … Read more

Kandal Village, Siem Reap’s Secret Shopping, Eating and Sipping Quarter

Kandal Village is Siem Reap’s secret shopping, eating and drinking destination, centred on and around hip Hup Guan Street in the increasingly cool little northern Cambodian city. Hip Hup Guan Street in cool Kandal Village is where Siem Reap’s savvy expats are shopping, sipping and eating. Rapidly undergoing gentrification, the gritty little district, which also … Read more

Weekend in Barcelona Itinerary for Food and Wine Lovers

Weekend in Barcelona? Yes, please. Barcelona has to be our favourite European city for a weekend getaway. When we lived in the Middle East we used to make a beeline for the Catalan capital the first chance we had. Oh how I wish we lived that close again! Now with the proliferation of low cost airlines, … Read more

Siem Reap is the Top Destination in Asia and Second in the World

Siem Reap is Top Destination in Asia, Second in the World. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Cambodia‘s Siem Reap is top destination in Asia and second in the world, according to millions of travellers who use the travel review site TripAdvisor. Of course, Temple Town being our home, we have to agree. And we rarely agree with the TripAdvisor’s restaurant and hotel rankings. There are some surprising inclusions on TripAdvisor’s Top 25 … Read more