Gramercy Bar and Kitchen completed a refurb of the space previously occupied by E Cucina late last year. I’d only been there once under that previous banner but you know how it is with so many new places opening, I just never got around to heading back. Late last year though, an opportunity presented when […]

I enjoy cooking. I’m no expert but I always try and bring two things with me to the kitchen – passion and enthusiasm – and I find with them in tow you are much more likely to have some culinary success. Now I have a reasonable cook book collection and let’s face it, the internet […]

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 […]

The stars aligned this April and for three days of annual leave you scored a magic ten days in a row off. Thank you Easter and Anzac Day! It was just magic. I booked in my three days back in 2013 when it was first brought to my attention. Annual leave is a precious thing, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I hadn’t been to the Brisbane hotel in ages. And I like the Brisbane. Ever since they did their big fit out, which was a fair few years ago now, it has been a lovely pub to visit. Plenty of seating options, all very open and with the lovely alfresco area with plenty of greenery. Plus on the few […]

Rockpool is one of those places I had long meant to visit and just never got around to. So recently GG and I decided to line up a special “date night” and Rockpool came to mind. To snag a Saturday evening we needed to book about a month out but having it in the calendar […]

Since the doors swung open I’ve wanted to go to Jamie’s Italian. But two things were in my way. One of them was a queue out the door that was miles long and secondly was that I am not a patient person and my desire to spend hours in a line was low. So how […]