Richard Graham is the kind of traveller we identify with. Since the age of five, Richard travelled to at least one new country with his family every year. Every year. Before starting his tour company, My Sydney Detour, Richard did a 14-month overland trip from Mexico down to Tierra del Fuego in Argentina spending as … Read more
This local guide to eating and drinking in Sydney comes from John Fink, a Sydney restaurateur and director of some of Australia’s best restaurants, including Quay, Bennelong, Otto. We first encountered Mr Fink on Twitter when we were tweeting about our Melbourne restaurant experiences. He tweeted: “Come to Sydney! Sydney’s milk bars shit all over Melbourne’s restaurants!” … Read more
Vivid Sydney was never a more appropriate name for a festival. A festival of light, music and ideas, Vivid Sydney sees the city’s already dazzling waterfront area spectacularly illuminated by lighting projections and installations while creative events around Sydney light up minds. UPDATE May 2016. Vivid Sydney is on once again, from 27 May to 18 June … Read more
When it comes to eating out in Melbourne ‘ethnic’ cuisine is probably what first comes to mind. Judging by our last story on Contemporary Asian Cuisine in the Victorian capital, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Melbourne was an Asian city with Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, and Malaysian restaurants all flourishing. Melbourne’s ethnic food scene is a little … Read more
Whatever you eat, eating out in Melbourne is a delight, but there is a food movement there at the moment that doesn’t involve food trucks or Mexican food (don’t ask) and that’s the food of Melbourne’s contemporary Asian restaurants. Sure, modern Asian has been around a while, but new restaurants keep opening in Melbourne that are pushing … Read more