I chatted to MasterChef’s Gary Mehigan in this week’s Food traveller column in Epicure/Good Food. Read on below or see the article on goodfood.com.au. By Peter Barrett Best known as one of the judges of […]
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Martin Benn’s guide to eating and drinking in Tokyo
Chef Martin Benn. Photo: Supplied. In case you missed my Epicure Good Food interview with Sepia chef Martin Benn, here again is his guide to eating and drinking in Tokyo, Japan. Indespensible intel on how […]
Discovering Filipino food: six dishes you must eat in the Philippines
Dee Jae, ‘the Starving Artist’. Photo: Peter Barrett. It was to the strains of Celine Dion’s The Power of Love and a plate of deep-fried pork bits that I finally “got” Filipino food. I’d been in the […]
Curtis Stone’s guide to eating and drinking in Los Angeles
Curtis Stone at Maude in Los Angeles. Photo: Ray Kachatorian. Peter Barrett quizzes Curtis Stone on the best LA has to offer in food, wine and farmers markets. Melbourne-born chef Curtis Stone landed in Los Angeles […]
Ho Chi Minh hipsters
Bikes outside the entrance of Saigon hipster shopping haunt, 14 Ton That Dam in District 1, HCMC. Photo: Emma Byrnes. Our trip to Vietnam just keeps giving. Here’s the latest story we had published in Fairfax Media’s […]
Traveller: battle of the banh mi
Madam Kanh, the ‘Queen of Banh Mi’, in Hoi An, Vietnam. Photograph by Emma Byrnes. Much of our three months in Vietnam last year was spent eating. Here’s the latest story I’ve had published in traveller.com.au […]
Wining and dining on the Mornington Peninsula
My eagle-eyed photographer wife Emma Byrnes and I travelled around the Mornington Peninsula recently, putting together this summer 2016/17 cover story for Go Places With Toyota magazine, published by Pacific+. We ate and drank at some […]
