Salmon and Bear, Newtown

The name Salmon and Bear conjures mixed signals about the food that the restaurant serves. Does the menu revolve around fish (the ‘Salmon’ component), or does it have more of a hunter-gather wilderness theme (the ‘Bear’)? Or does it go surf and turf and offer both? The answer is in the ‘Salmon’ part of the…

Pasta Party at The Italian Bowl, Newtown

I don’t think there is anything quite like the humble bowl of pasta in the world of comfort food. There’s probably not a single person I know who would turn down a bowl of pasta. It has such universal appeal, and can be cooked in so many different ways that it’s hard notto say no….

Twelve, Newtown

When you’re sitting home with nothing to do for the day, what do you resort to? Reading? Listening to music? Catching up on your favourite TV show? Being on holidays with lots of spare time, I started watching Gossip Girl recently and managed to finish the first season on DVD this week. It was a…