Things to do in Daylesford range from browsing one of Australia’s finest regional art galleries and learning to cook with local produce at the legendary Lake House to indulging in spa treatments at nearby Hepburn Springs. Just over a hundred kilometres northwest of Melbourne, the...
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A weekend in Bendigo makes for a great escape from Melbourne to take in the grandeur of the Gold Rush town and good food and wine. Try to time your trip to Victoria’s third-largest city to coincide with the monthly Bendigo Farmers Market or a food tour...
New Turkish Cuisine in Australia had been intriguing me for some time and then I spotted the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival event called ‘Mehmet Gürs and The Young Turks at Lezzet – an Anatolian Discovery’. We signed up immediately. Sampling New Turkish Cuisine in...
The Worlds 50 Best Restaurants list 2017 was announced on 5 April at a boozy event at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building. It hasn’t taken us ten days to recover from the party that followed but we have spent a little time reflecting upon what the...
River Graze, which sprawls along the banks of Melbourne’s Yarra River on Southbank Promenade, is a celebration of food and wine, from across the Australian state of Victoria. Launched on Friday night and running through to Sunday evening, it’s one of 200 events on the...
Melbourne Food and Wine Festival is where we’re headed – we’re in transit in Saigon en route to Australia’s culinary capital and we are already salivating. And that’s not just because my airport foraging turned up some Marou chocolate that I’m saving for dessert on...
48 hours in Melbourne for food and wine lovers will never be long enough to eat and drink your way through this tantalising Australian city. Our lip-smacking two-day itinerary will go some way in giving you a taste of Melbourne’s delectable markets, world-class restaurants and...
Multicultural Australia is where you can get a taste of Australia’s rich culinary diversity – in the suburbs of every city, and in towns across the Australia. This is a guide to where to sample everything from Vietnamese pho to Iraqi lamb – by local experts...
A Melbourne cafe culture walk to get a taste of Melbourne’s coffee history should be high on your to-do list when you’re in the Land of the Long Flat White, as we like to call our coffee mad country, Australia. Tragically, Melbourne’s “godfather of coffee”, Sisto...
While no-booking policies, done-to-death dude food, and massive ‘shared plates’ drove us crazy when recently dining out in Australia, the food scene in Australia has never been more exciting. Here are some of the Australian food trends we loved. Australian Food Trends We Love Baking bread and...
A priority for us on trips back to Australia is soaking up as much culture as we can. After we’ve caught up on the newest restaurants, we can be found in museums and galleries catching up on the latest exhibitions. Some of the best museums...
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. Contemporary Australia Cuisine, Food Worthy Flying For It all...
