“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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Behind the scenes at the Good Food Guide
Restaurant critics Roslyn Grundy, Gemima Cody, Ardyn Bernoth, & Myffy Rigby at 2019 Good Food Guide Awards. Photo by Kristoffer Paulsen. Roslyn Grundy, Victorian editor of Fairfax Media’s Good Food Guide, used to laugh at 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 […]
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. […]
Emerging food tribes test Melbourne’s kitchens
Maha chef Shane Delia has embraced the challenge of cooking for diners with dietary restrictions. Photo: Pat Scala. Chef Shane Delia has been offering an extensive additional vegan menu at his Melbourne Middle Eastern restaurant Maha […]
Vietnamese dining scene moves into a new age
Thi Le, female chef and co-owner of Anchovy restaurant, is educating herself and patrons about real Vietnamese food. Photo: Simon Schluter. The Age, 23 January, 2015 By Peter Barrett Born in a Malaysian refugee camp to […]
24 hours with the Lucas Group for Broadsheet
Photo: Isamu Sawa My multimedia story with photographer Isamu Sawa on the expanding Melbourne empire behind Chin Chin, Baby, Kong and (opening next Sunday) Hawker Hall went live today on Broadsheet. Read it here.
Flower Drum celebrates 40 years
June 6, 2015 Peter Barrett Australia’s best Chinese restaurant has just turned 40. Since opening in 1975 and scoring two chef’s hats in the Age Good Food Guide’s first edition in 1980 the Melbourne restaurant’s lofty hospitality […]
Chris Ying zeroes in on sustainable restaurants
Chris Ying says sometimes it just takes a few tweaks to be greener. Photo: Supplied Californian chef Alice Waters guest-edited this week’s Epicure Good Food section, comissioning a range of interesting stories close to her heart. And mine as […]
