New Cambodian Cuisine is the name I’ve given to the inventive Cambodian food being created by a handful of young Cambodian chefs helming some of Siem Reap’s best Cambodian restaurants. Together they represent an exciting new grassroots Cambodian food movement that deserves your attention. Skip the Pub Street bars and eateries and book tables at … Read more
The Worlds 50 Best Restaurants list for 2017 was announced on 5 April at a boozy event at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building. Ten days later, I feel compelled to share some thoughts on the awards and list – and, no, it hasn’t taken us ten days to recover from the party that followed! But I … Read more
Things we hate about cookbooks include everything from missing recipes and no recipe list to cookbooks that have obviously not been well researched or, at worst, haven’t had their recipes tested. We love cookbooks. As much as it’s convenient to pull up a recipe on an iPad, we still prefer to page our way through a … Read more
Eating and drinking in Seminyak, Bali’s most appealing destination for lovers of good food and drink, has never been better or more interesting than it is right now, with brilliant restaurants and cafés offering everything from pan-Asian favourites to contemporary Indonesian cuisine. Eating and drinking in Seminyak, or anywhere on Bali for that matter, wasn’t … Read more
The Grand Gelinaz Shuffle on 9th July 2015 saw 37 of the world’s best chefs swapping kitchens for a few days to produce a unique menu inspired by the restaurant they were sent to for one dinner service only. We were fortunate to be the only media covering the Noma takeover of Nahm in Bangkok. … Read more