Two new worthy BYO restaurants
As restaurant wine prices have flown into the stratosphere, the ongoing search for good BYO restaurants has intensified.
Food and Wine
Wine with hot spice
Whether in a traditional form or in fusion food, hot spices pose challenges for wine which did not previously exist in classical sommelier training.
How to pair chardonnay with food
Chardonnay offers a very wide variety of food matching options depending on the style of wine you’re looking to match.
Thoughts on wine matched menus
Stephen Wong MW has seen trends come and go, practices evolve and prices rise inexorably over the past quarter century, but something that seems to still split diners is the practice of wine matched menus.
BYO makes a come back
BYO has returned to Sydney and Melbourne restaurants struggling with rising costs and reluctant diners.
67 Pall Mall comes to Melbourne
The high-profile London wine and food venue, 67 Pall Mall, is currently establishing itself in Melbourne.
A new bar at Sofitel
On occasion, opportunities appear that should be taken and so it was when Stuart Knox got the chance to visit the latest bar Lumière on Thirty Five at Sofitel Darling Harbour.
Dining and wine adventures at Cru Bar & Cellar
Huon Hooke dines at Cru Bar & Cellar in Brisbane and has a ‘rummage’ in their cellar to find a wine to drink.
It must have been something I sipped
Taking a break from judging at a wine competition, the wine-weary judges perked up when they spotted a tray of jam tarts by the coffee urn.
Lo-fi adventures in East Sussex
Touring in the East Sussex countryside recently, Huon Hooke and his partner chose a vineyard farmstay near Rye, named Tillingham.