For the love of food
Last week was a very exciting one for me. I was published for the first time ever in print. GRAM magazine is a Melbourne-based mag that features restaurant reviews and recipes from Melbourne food bloggers. GRAM launched their first Brisbane issue at the start of April and I was lucky enough to be featured. When [...]
I love the area that we live in. Within just a few 100m we have an abundance of shops and restaurants. Whenever one closes I wait with baited breath to see what comes next. Zest cafe started teasing me with their signage and building a few months ago and every few days I walked past [...]
We don’t have very many traditions in my family but the ones we do have we do well. Every New Years Day, for at least 10 years, we have been to Bistro C at Noosa for a long lunch to welcome the New Year. It’s one of my favourite restaurants at the coast and I [...]
January 2nd, it’s normally a day where resolve for New Year’s resolutions is still strong and many people the world over are sticking to their ‘healthy eating for 2012′ goals. I on the other hand, decided years ago that such goals for me only end badly. Instead I try to balance out my eating year-round. [...]
Last Saturday night, I had dinner at Vapiano on the Gold Coast with a group of friends. The store is a relatively new concept to and a popular place on a Saturday night. There was quite a line to get in when we arrived just after 7pm but our party of 9 was seated about [...]
Yesterday was the long-awaited (for me anyway) Cheese festival in Brisbane. I had been counting down the days to what promised to be ‘Queensland’s biggest cheese festival.’ Advertisements also promised a free block of feta for the first 150 couples through the door. Of course I got there right on opening time but unfortunately a [...]
Brisbane might not be as hip and happening as Sydney and Melbourne but it has caught on to the casual-Mexican-restaurant-phase that has seen them pop up all over the place. They’ve been around for decades in the USA but have only started opening in Brisbane in the last 2 years. It took me a little [...]
This time last weekend, we were lucky enough to be up at beautiful Montville in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. Along with three other couples, we stayed at ‘Ascot house‘ for the weekend to attend our friends’ wedding. Being ones to seize an opportunity, we all arrived on the Friday and made the most of the [...]
