“If Rome is a living museum, then Venice is a dream,” says Rinaldo “Ronnie” Di Stasio. The Thornbury-born son of Italian migrants is a hospitality legend in Melbourne, best known for the groundbreaking restaurant Rosati in the […]
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Kitchen spy – Rohan Anderson
Author and real foods campaigner, Rohan Anderson, inside his Yandoit home kitchen. Photo: Simon O’Dwyer. “Over the past six or seven years I transitioned from being a pretty unhealthy, overweight person eating a lot of processed foods […]
Best places to eat and drink in the Adelaide Hills
Wheel estate: Bridgewater Mill Restaurant offers “posh platters”. Photo: Supplied. Peter Barrett Few visitors leave this rolling, bucolic, wine-soaked landscape without having at least one Hans Heysen moment. The great German-born Australian watercolourist’s spirit is everywhere, written […]
Gaggan best again at Asia’s Top 50 Restaurants
Australian chef Dave Pynt’s Singapore restaurant Burnt Ends rocketed up Asia’s Top 50 list. Photo: Supplied. Bangkok restaurant Gaggan took top spot overnight in the 2016 list of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants, sponsored by S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna. […]
Julia Zemiro – Kitchen Spy
Television presenter Julia Zemiro in her home kitchen. Photo: Edwina Pickles. By Peter Barrett You know her as a television host of ABC’s Home Delivery and RocKwiz and Eurovision on SBS, but a French upbringing and parents who trusted her in the kitchen […]
Kitchen spy with Marieke Hardy
Marieke Hardy in her kitchen. Photo: Simon O’Dwyer Marieke Hardy, 39, went vegan for a dare eight years ago and she hasn’t looked back. “I wasn’t even vegetarian,” she recalls of the transformation. “I went straight from eating […]
Kitchen spy: Lindsay Jones-Evans
Restaurateur Lindsay Jones-Evans loves the theatre of food. Photo: Pat Scala. Although he was born in Melbourne, Lindsay Jones-Evans, 56, made an indelible mark on Sydney’s culinary scene in 1996 when he opened Jones the Grocer, […]
