In short: Traditional Italian home-style dishes, relaxed and vibrant atmosphere, great surrounding dining precinct to explore. Marrying into the Italian culture means you must quickly learn your way around a plate of Nonna’s favourites from the motherland. Not being able to tell a tagliatelle from a pappardelle can find you with spaghetti on your face….
Archives for November 2016
Double Cross Espresso Bar Crows Nest
In short: A great addition to Willoughby Road with outstanding cafe fare and an infusion of Japanese flavours. Coffee is excellent. Coming into work on a Monday morning is bad enough but imagine when you open your email and find you are being relocated as well. The disappointment was compounded as I quickly did a mental lookup…
Petal Met Sugar Woolloomooloo
In short: A whimsical mix of culinary craft and magic, amazing sweet treats and great coffee too. “Dynamic duos” come in many guises, Batman & Robin, Bert & Ernie, Han & Chewie, Cookies & Milk, but some partnerships are a little more abstract at first thought. Petal Met Sugar, a magical mingling of a florist…
Mowbray Eatery Lane Cove West
In Short : Relaxed dining close to Chatswood, paddock to plate philosophy, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. I think the residents of Lane Cove West are blessed having Mowbray Eatery at their doorstep. A cafe by day, and restaurant by night, it sits in leafy surrounds framed by tall natives. We arrive on a warm spring…
Flower Child Café Westfield Chatswood
In Short: Not your regular café in a mall, unique floral décor and excellent coffee and food offerings. When you think of a café in a shopping mall, you would imagine it to be a normal square shop with standard café fit-out, decent (good if you are lucky!) food and coffee. But guess what? Coco…