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Aux Deux Amis
France / Paris

Aux Deux Amis – A Friendly Venue

Aux Deux Amis – Introduction Aux Deux Amis is one of our favourite places in Paris, one that we visit every time we are passing through. It serves interesting, fresh produce that has been cleverly sourced and a range of many of our favourite natural wines. The décor at Aux […]

Quality wines
United Kingdom / London

Quality Wines – Beautiful Food and Wine

Quality Wines – Introduction On our most recent trip to France we caught flights that stopped in London on the way over before catching the train to Paris. We then flew out of London after six weeks touring around France. This gave us the opportunity to have a liesurely lunch […]

Samuel Pepys
Australia / Melbourne / Wine

Samuel Pepys – Exciting Wine Bar

Samuel Pepys – Introduction Samuel Pepys is a lovely wine shop and cafe in Northcote in the suburbs of Melbourne. It is owned and operated by the talented Joey Elder who has an excellent knowledge of the wines he sells. At Samuel Pepys you can peruse the shelves with row […]

Vin Libre
France / Strasbourg / Strasbourg

Au Fil du Vin Libre – Amazing Wine Store

Au Fil du Vin Libre – Introduction Au Fil du Vin Libre is a natural wine store in the Alsace city of Strasbourg. This is a very serious store with a stellar line up of the stars of the natural wine world. Walk in here and you will see wines […]

La Fourchette
France / Provence

La Fourchette – Bold French Food

La Fourchette – Introduction For many years we maintained a house that was about 45 minutes north of Avignon which was the largest administrative city in the Vaucluse region, which sits in the North-West corner of Provence. As a result we got to go there quite often and hence we […]

Spontana
Melbourne

Bar Spontana: Powerful Thai Flavours

Bar Spontana – Introduction Bar Spontana is a wonderful restaurant hiden away behind the main drag of Sydney Road in Brunswick. The Thai chefs are highly skilled in this complex cuisine and the waiting staff here are anxious for everyone to have a good time both as a result of […]

Good Days
Melbourne

Good Days: Great Food

Good Days: Introduction Good Days is a relatively new small restaurant in Brunswick on Sydney Road. It turns out excellent bowls of Vietnamese food where every component has been treated with respect and the flavours are strong and integrated with each other. We have for decades been impressed by the […]

Gianni
Italy

Trattoria da Gianni – Indulgent traditional food

Trattoria da Gianni – Introduction Bologna is our sort of city. The locals are obsessed with food and especially the dishes that are the subject of this story. The architecture is amazing with beautiful buidlings and towers every way you look. We also like the fact that it is a […]

Autour de l'Atre
France

Autour de l’Âtre – Strong menu

Autour de l’Âtre – Introduction On our 2024 trip to France we drove from the Savoie after visiting winemakers in that area to the Jura – which is always an interesting drive as the scenery is spectacular and the roads very good. However, on this occasion we diverted in the […]

Caves Madeleine
France

Caves Madeleine – Beautiful food

Caves Madeleine – Introduction Caves Madeleine is a restaurant and wine shop in the wine town of Beaune in Burgundy. It serves comfort food of excellent quality using carefully selected produce from nearby and it has a wall of wine that you can select from and either consume in the […]