Crown Street favourite Caffe Sicilia has launched an Almond Degustation Menu to celebrate the almond-harvesting season in Sicily. From March 1st, Caffe Sicilia is offering its customers a three-course almond degustation menu to mark the first almond blossoms of the year. The menu will be available for the whole month of March and offered at just $55 per person. Caffe [...]
Valentine’s Day is scarily creeping around the corner. Yes, some may see it as a commercialised ‘Hallmark’ holiday but be that as it may… if you don’t do something, you’re screwed. I’m looking at you fellas! So here are our top Valentine’s Day gift ideas for foodies. From the first date, to the 10 year romance and singles too (we [...]
Have you always wished of becoming a chef but never known how to get there? Do you have the heart and the passion to cook for your career? Celebrity chefs around the country are lending some support to help combat the constant battle of low apprentice chef numbers in Australia. Industry super fund Hostplus has launched a national cooking competition [...]
Next month, 200 of the country’s top CEOs will be teamed up with 30 of Australia’s hottest celebrity chefs and no, not being served 3 Hat dishes but instead, donning the chef’s whites and cooking up a feast for 1000 of Sydney’s most disadvantaged. On February 6th, OzHarvest will join forces with Qantas and Mission Australia to present the CEO [...]
Jo Corrigan and The Commoner restaurant crew are excited to announce a yearlong calendar of cult movie inspired menus! From Planet of the Apes to Jaws, six classic movies have been given a tantalizing twist that is not-so common and oh-so Commoner. Each menu is available in conjunction with the regular menu and will run for one month only, giving [...]
Dreaming of the upcoming holidays and just waiting for work to finally finish for the year? Well, why don’t I give you that little extra something to look forward to? Why don’t I get you to start thinking about your next holiday? I’m thinking Noosa in May next year, who’s in? Mmmm surf, sand and sun. Yep okay, well what [...]
Caffe Sicilia in Surry Hills has recently acquired the only Carpigiani Maestro (a granita and gelato making machine) in Australia, to offer its customers true Sicilian style granitas this summer. Granita is a type of Italian sorbet popularised by Tortoni in Paris in the 19th Century. It is a half frozen preparation with a granular texture (hence the name), made [...]
As much as the wet weather makes us want to doubt it, summer is definitely about to hit. You can almost feel it brewing under the guise of stormy cool nights accompanied by heavy umbrella use and unmanageable hair. But summer is certainly on it’s way, and you know what that means for us Aussies? Barbeque! And don’t even bother [...]
Beaujolais Nouveau has arrived! Every year at one minute past midnight, on the third Thursday of November over a million cases of Beaujolais Nouveau will begin the journey through the quiet towns of France for the biggest race around the clock for immediate global shipment and it has finally arrived! Celebrate the first wine of the season with a glass [...]
Every year, as the clock strikes midnight on the third Thursday of November, over one million cases of France’s most famous red wine Beaujolais Nouveau begins a journey through the sleepy Rhone-Alpes to an excited Paris for immediate shipment of the season’s first beaujolais. Dubbed “Beaujolais Nouveau Day”, parties are held all over France and further afield to celebrate the [...]
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