Snack Man – Introduction On our first visit to Brisbane in a number of years, one of the highlights of our visit was discovering Snack Man in Fortitude Valley and the story of the people behind this exciting, busy venue. First the setting. You reach Snack Man from East Street […]
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Deep in Marseille – Introduction In our story about coffee called The Fascinating Story of Coffee we wrote about how France has been very slow to embrace premium coffee. We proposed a couple of reasons that included their colonial history where many of the countries they occupied grew the less […]
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Le Bas Alpin – Forcalquier Forcalquier is a moderate sized town (population 5,212) in the départment of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence which extends from the western end of the Luberon to the Italian border. Forcalquier sits at the eastern end of this départment. We had driven here from Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt where we had enjoyed […]
Le Bonheur Suit Son Cours – Vaison-la-Romaine Le Bonheur Pouruit Son Cours in the pretty Romanesque village of Vaison-la-Romaine in Vaucluse serves interesting dishes that are not at all pretentious to accompany the very well-chosen selection of biodynamic and natural wines. We were once lucky enough to buy a house […]
Patricia – Introduction Patricia is a great place to head for in Melbourne for a very good coffee experience. It is standing room only and you may have to queue, but the experience is well worth it. Don’t be put off by the fact that you have to venture into […]
Planque – London restaurant We have known Jonathan Alphandary for many years. First from his time in Australia and his many trips to Tasmania and then meeting up with him in Paris and Geneva and now in London. We were therefore anxious to visit his relatively new restaurant called Planque […]
Foods worth a journey Over the past 40 years we have journeyed to many places on this planet searching for food and drinks that are prized by the locals. Many of the food items and the drinks we have searched for we have found in restaurants or tiny cafes. However […]
Ristorante del Cambio – Introduction Ristorante del Cambio is an elegant, gracious mansion in the centre of Torino housing one of the best restaurants in the region. It serves fine, authentic Piedmontese food. We were a bit concerned about eating at Restaurant del Cambio. It certainly was highly recommended. But […]
Towpath – Introduction Sometimes we stumble across a place that we come to love, on other occasions we are taken to a place someone else loves and we instantly love it. The latter is the case with Towpath in London. We were taken there by our friend Will Gleave who […]
Manat in Perpignan – Introduction Manat in Perpignan is a seriously good restaurant in Perpignan run by Yuka Okugawa and Marc Meya who have cooked together in both Japan and France and now run this very popular restaurant in the centre of Perpignan. As can be imagined from the first […]
Septime la Cave – Introduction Septime la Cave is a small, sparse bar and cave quite close to its mothership Septime. It serves a short, but nicely conceived list of wines by the glass at very reasonable prices, or you can buy a bottle from the shelves that line two […]
Richard Olney’s Provence Cookbook Provence: The Beautiful Cookbook by Richard Olney is a ‘coffee table’ book that looks good but also contains solid, well-structured recipes that capture the essence of Provence. We normally overlook ‘beautiful’ books because they often fail to deliver rigour and authenticity, however Richard Olney was incapable […]
