Holidays. What’s not to love about them? I swear that my recent six week European adventure was a good year and a half in the making. Hours spent planning out which countries to visit and then further refining those plans to where will we stay and finally where will we eat! It was a labour […]

No Mafia. Possibly the narrowest little restaurant in Northbridge, but despite its slight size it is definitely packing a punch in the food stakes. Taking inspiration from the recipes and ethos of Southern Italy, No Mafia takes a modern approach to traditional Italian Cuisine with a focus on using the best and freshest local products. The food is […]

I don’t often go out for an ice cream. I probably couldn’t tell you the last time I went out specifically for a scoop but that’s not to say I’m not a fan. We generally have a tub in the freezer or Snickers ice cream bars if they are on special, when I tend to get […]

It was my birthday the other week. Older yes, but I would venture not a whole lot wiser. But I’m fine with that, perhaps wisdom is something I’ll grow into. I enjoyed a wonderfully relaxing day. Well, relaxing except for the hour of personal training which was entirely focused on legs and introduced me to […]

When GG and I arrived back from an amazing weekend down south last Sunday I didn’t have too much enthusiasm for spending a long time in the kitchen to get our dinner ready. So I was appreciative that a special delivery from Barilla had arrived during the week. It meant that dinner would be ready in […]

I’ve been to Jamie’s Italian three times now. I was fairly smitten after my first visit. I had gotten to try one of his renowned planks and loved it, then enjoyed the rabbit pasta dish I had chosen and thought the chocolate brownie for dessert was divine. And service had been wonderful. The second visit wasn’t quite as spot […]

Social media is a fabulous thing for alerting food fanatics to fabulous new local places that they just must visit. I’d consider myself somewhat of a food fanatic and lately as I’ve perused Facebook and Instagram a name that I kept seeing was Cecchi’s. “Where is this Cecchi’s?” I had wondered. So a quick google […]

Throughout 2014 Maurizio’s Restaurant is holding an amazing line up for degustation dinners showcasing a different region of Italy. They will be held on Saturdays and kick off on March 8th with Puglia and run through to November. This evening in the car park next door to Maurizio they held their Il Giro D’Italia Festival from 4pm […]

Back in the day when GG and I first moved in together one of the places we used to visit often was a local Italian restaurant called Siderno Caffe & Ristorante. It’s on Main Street and has been there longer than we’ve been in the neighbourhood (which I realized in March this year will be […]

Divido is a long time favourite of GG and mine. It holds a special place for us because it’s the first place we enjoyed a degustation dinner together in March 2009. Now Divido had actually been open since 2005 and way back then their specialty was very popular wood fired pizzas. I didn’t get to […]