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…

Café Del Mar, Darling Harbour

I always look forward to the Aussie summer because it means barbecue feasts, long days at the beach, and, of course, lots and lots of seafood. And what better place to celebrate summer than at a restaurant and bar aptly named Café del Mar, the name of which means café of the sea! You may…

Il Goloso Ristorante Pizzera at Haberfield Post

If you were to ask me what my favourite Italian food was, I wouldn’t be able to answer you. I absolutely love Italian food, whether it be pasta, pizza, arancini, pane (bread) or any of the various antipasto delicacies. Actually, that’s a lie…. I would probably say Gelato, but that is another type of food…

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…

Paris Seafood Cafe, La Perouse

What better day to visit La Perouse than on Father’s Day? I’d never visited this area before, but driving through the eastern suburbs to get to there we passed lots of places that I vaguely remember from our previous travels. We’d planned to go to the area for a nice Father’s Day fish n’ chips on the beach,…