If you don’t want to waste a meal in Siem Reap, you want to taste authentic Cambodian food and not the Thai-Cambodian fusion most tourist restaurants offer, and you're keen to sample street food and learn how the locals eat, then book my Savour Siem Reap bespoke culinary experience. Along with my bespoke Inside Siem Reap and Shop Siem Reap [...]
Some of the best Cambodian cuisine in the country is found in Battambang, the capital of Cambodia's most fertile province and the country's rice bowl. Here's our guide to eating and drinking in Battambang. A few tourist restaurants aside, Cambodia's second city of Battambang, set in an agriculturally-rich region, is one of the best places in the [...]
Food and wine road trips in Australia are in abundance. We'd need to write a book to cover them all. These are just some of the most delectable drives you can do that take in welcoming wineries, small artisanal producers, and wonderful cafes and restaurants, against a backdrop of breathtaking scenery. With a ridiculously diverse range [...]
One of the easiest ways to travel more responsibly is to shop more sustainably and more ethically. Our tips on how to shop ethically and sustainably when you travel.
Loft cafés, contemporary art galleries, unique concept stores, and vintage shops line the laidback streets of funky Fremantle, Perth’s hip, historic seaside city. When locals in Western Australia’s capital Perth want to kick back on the weekend, they head to Fremantle – or ‘Freo’ as it’s fondly called. A lovely, low-rise, low-key little city at [...]
Best food experiences in Australia include everything from feasting on fish and chips by the beach and eating your way through Chinatown in Sydney and Melbourne to degustation menus at Australia's finest restaurants and meat pies with mushy peas at historic pubs. Australia is one of the world’s great culinary destinations. Beautiful fresh local produce, talented chefs [...]
“So what is local travel and is it over yet?” a hotel general manager asked me the other day during a chat about tourism and travel trends. After struggling to suppress a groan of frustration, for reasons that I will explain, I told him what local travel meant to me. After all, local travel is [...]
Chef Peter Gilmore and Quay Restaurant in Sydney are two icons of the city's gastronomic scene. The chef is one of the most passionate and inventive of Australia's cooks, while the restaurant with its spectacular harbour views that sweep from the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Opera House would be the place to eat even [...]
Our 24 hours in Orange for food and wine lovers itinerary provides a delicious taste of Orange, a rural town in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. This fabulous food and wine destination, just over the Blue Mountains northwest of Sydney, should not be missed. If you’re heading to Australia, try to spend at least 24 hours [...]
We love to cook when we settle into places longer than a week, which is why we prefer to use apartment rentals when we travel. There's something comforting about making your own meals after days of eating restaurant food — especially when the ingredients include quality Australian produce delivered to our door by Hudson Meats. We were thrilled to [...]
I’ll let you in on a little secret. Sometimes – not often – when, as a travel and food photographer, I photograph dishes at a restaurant for a magazine story, we have yet to experience the food. Such was the case with this delicious dish of Dan Hunter's at Dunkeld. Given the nature of our jobs, the [...]
Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley in one day — is it possible to get a taste of these two fantastic wine regions in Victoria, Australia, in a day? We decide to find out on a full day private tour with a Melbourne food and wine guide and sommelier. One of the best things about Melbourne is [...]