If you didn’t live in Woolwich, the darling of the peninsula on the lower north shore of Sydney, there used to be very few reasons to head down there except for those few times a year, when you were vying for a top spot down at Clarkes Point Reserve to watch the fireworks on New…
Bay Ten Espresso North Sydney
Bay Ten Espresso Video Review: Hidden away under the railway under-bridge that takes trains over the Sydney Harbour Bridge is Bay Ten Espresso. While the official address is Lavender Bay, it’s just a stone’s throw from the high rise buildings of North Sydney. The café has been fashioned out of an old industrial bay, amongst…
Haven Specialty Coffee Surry Hills
Good coffee and Asian inspired breakfasts, what’s not to like? Such is the proximity of Haven Specialty Coffee to Central Station, you can actually grab a seat outside and watch the people traffic or the trains begin their outward journeys. There has been a dearth of really good coffee around the biggest station in Sydney….
Cafe Oratnek Redfern
Seaweed, miso, dashi, wasabi and matcha – the flavours most associated with Japanese cuisine – is penetrating the Sydney café scene. Yes, we are seeing the eastern influences in our breakfasts and a small wave of cafes like Café Oratnek are opening across Sydney revolutionising the humble eggs or introducing elements of Asian cuisine to your…
Proud Mary Collingwood
There’s a great cover by Ike and Tina Turner, that has in the first few chords a lyric that includes “…Why now, every now and then, I think you might like to hear something from us nice and easy…”, and Proud Mary in Collingwood exudes that same feeling of the song that helped propel Tina Turner into mega stardom. I…