Voted #1 Best restaurant in Asia 2015, Tim Ho Wan(添好運) which translates to “to add good luck” in Cantonese, started off as a hole-in-the-wall dim sum shop at Mong Kok, with a modest 30 seat space as its first shop. Original chef and owner, Mak Kwai Pui, is a former Dim Sum chef at The…
Black Star Pastry Sydney CBD
Walking up George St in Sydney’s CBD on a wet and wintery day, it’s not long before our café detector is switched on and honing in on something special. Today, the signal leads us to Black Star Pastry located in the one of the city’s coolest bookstores, Books Kinokuniya. The Black Star Pastry name has…
Shortstop Coffee and Donuts Barangaroo
Got a favourite childhood memory of the best donut you ever ate? Well, forget it! I know…who am I to tell you to abandon that memory of a sickly sweet, synthetically styled, technicolour ring of fried dough, you gleefully devoured at the age of 5? Well…I am the man who’s tasted the donut of donuts, the…
Hunter Gatherer North Sydney
Hunter Gatherer is an exciting new addition to the Sydney’s casual dining scene, sitting atop Greenwood Plaza in North Sydney. Now, I have been working in North Sydney for 17 years and have seen a number of restaurants come and go from this site. The location doesn’t get the foot traffic of other dining establishments within Greenwood…
Culture Espresso Café New York
I think I’ve found some of the very best chocolate chip cookies in New York! Sure, sure, I hear you saying…everyone thinks they know where to get the best choc-chip fix in the Big Apple. But wait! Before you poo-poo my presumptive proclamation, you HAVE, no MUST, try the cookies at Culture Espresso over on…