Bada Bing Cafe is one of the most memorably friendliest places I have eaten at in a while. The staff are all so pleasant and the smiles on their faces suggest to me that they really do enjoy where they work and that’s always a delight to see. Back in the day, many, many moons […]

I went to Sydney for a few days last week for work and it was great. Some really productive meetings, a chance to catch up with a very good friend of mine for dinner at an entirely wonderful Greek restaurant and just generally a nice change of scene from the office. But I was back […]

I am partial to visiting urbanspoon before I head to a place to get a feel for other people’s experiences there. Sometimes this perhaps isn’t the best idea because it can potentially skew your opinion before you’ve even arrived. Such was the case when I lined up a catch up dinner with friends at Botanica […]

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 […]

Since my first visit to Lido in Northbridge last year I have been a massive fan. Such lovely Vietnamese food, always so fresh and full of flavour! I’m so grateful that on my first visit I was with Mrs M who introduced me to the wonder of Shaking Veal, which I’d say is the best […]

Not too far from home, a new café recently opened up called Cheeky Chinos. I’d seen their Facebook page and followed them on Twitter and was aware that it’s a café where dogs are welcome. Given the new addition to our household, lil’ Chablis, I kept this café in the back of my mind as […]

Saturday morning was a busy one. It was a flurry of activity in preparation for the arrival of GG and my combined Christmas present….. our shiny new Thermomix! It was getting dropped off at 9.30am so I was running around like a headless chook trying to get everything I needed sorted before our consultant arrived. […]