Before I start talking about Malaysia I need to back track to when we were still in Norway. We were chatting to Lillian, who we visited in Nannestad, about some of the people who had stayed with her before. She mentioned one particular chap who came from India, who has come back several times to […]
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The final stretch
Leaving the Royal Mail was a wrenching task, but it had to be done. Sydney was too far away for a single day’s drive, so we’d planned to overnight in Beechworth. And as it happens, The Age Good Food Guide’s Best New Country Restaurant 2010 is located there… The drive itself was quite manageable, and […]
A Dunkeld Idyll
The next two days in Dunkeld were magical, better than either of us could have dreamed. The Royal Mail Hotel is a haven for those who want to just bliss out for a while, which is exactly what we did on the following two days. I’m so glad they only had Mountain View rooms available, […]
Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld
Spanish chefs have been at the forefront of a gastronomic revolution in past decade or two. Ferran Adria’s El Bulli restaurant in northern Spain led the charge, bringing new scientific processes to cooking to create mind-blowingly inventive flavour and texture combinations such as “sardines on toast” ice cream, bacon foam, seaweed gels and other oddities. […]
On the road – Adelaide to Dunkeld
The next day was a complete change of speed, and most welcome too. Rather than mounting up for another extended drive, we merely travelled half an hour to the southern suburbs to stay with Joel’s parents, Helen and Jim. It was a lovely and very hot day, so after a light lunch and a tiki […]
The Grange, Adelaide
Everything we thought lacking in technique and invention at Stefano’s was more than made up for by the meal enjoyed at The Grange restaurant in the Adelaide Hilton the following night. Head chef Cheong Liew has been a legend in Australian food for decades, and his highly worked and stylised food stuns you with complexity […]
