- Tetsuya’s – Sydney
My pilgrimage to Tetsuya’s began over six months ago.
I was shuffled into my 4th different team at work in less than a year and there were plenty of rumours and innuendo about the future of the organisation. I received a call from a recruiter with some promising news signalling the end of the GFC [...]
- Toko – Surry Hills
I’m always a little complacent when it comes to new ‘it’ restaurants. There’s usually more pizazz in the surrounding diners than in the food on your plate.
Fortunately, Surry Hill’s Toko is not one of these places – it has style and substance.
Smack bang in the middle of Crown Street, Toko is a real spectacle from [...]
- Azuma Kushiyaki – Sydney
My good friend, Epicurean Explorer and I visited Azuma Kushiyaki not long after it opened earlier this year. While we found the food to be quite good, we were less than impressed by their $35 per person minimum spend for dinner. Especially when we were shown the fine print after taking our seats.
We didn’t think [...]
- Pan Asian – Prahran, Melbourne
I have to admit, fusion isn’t something I usually get excited about. The word is thrown about so loosely these days, it seems that you could pick any two dishes from two different menus and somehow sell it as fusion. While there are some fantastic examples of fusion out there (a la Nobu’s marriage of [...]
- Gumshara @ Eating World – Chinatown
What takes 7 days to make, only has three ingredients and could very well cause a cardiac arrest?
A heavy helping of ramen at Gumshara.
Hidden in the Eating World food court on Dixon Street, Gumshara is known for one thing and one thing only – its thick, glutinous, pork bone broth which has not only won [...]
