We often find that shopping centre cafes are always packed. We never quite understand this, for often these sorts of cafes have fairly run of the mill menus, and rather they’re popular since we all need that pick me up when we’re shopped out. However, Vine and Grind does a much more than this. It … Continue reading Vine and Grind Liverpool
Black Star Pastry, the home of the famous Strawberry Watermelon Cake is now serving this by the sip as well! Their new Strawberry Watermelon Latte is all your favourite flavours of the cake in drink. Made with almond milk and sweetened with a syrup that infuses notes of strawberry, watermelon and rose scented cream. To … Continue reading Black Star Pastry – cakes in a sip
Black Star Pastry, makers of the internationally famed and instagrammable Strawberry Watermelon Cake now have some new flavour offerings in addition to this. The ever popular strawberry watermelon cake is a creamy yet refreshing cake, which consists of layers of cream infused with rose water spread between almond dacquoise (nut meringue) and slices of watermelon … Continue reading New Black Star flavours
Located inside the George St Merivale complex, Lorraine’s is a patisserie selling an array of baked goods; tarts, cakes, pastries and slices. My favourite is the Mascarpone Cake: a Lightened mascarpone, layered with crisp coconut dacquoise, fresh strawberries and the combination of flavours and textures is unreal. Watch the chefs work in the open pastry … Continue reading Lorraine’s Patisserie
We often drive around in search of a good wave for Kurt. Once he’s found it, I go for a walk along the beach and and then hopefully find somewhere for a coffee. In the backstreets of Cunjurong, I was happily surprised to find this little deli/cafe and found it a lovely little oasis to … Continue reading The Deli @ Cunjurong
Banksia Bakehouse has been a project that Chris Sheldrick, Hannah Kim-Sheldrick, Josh Kim and Aileen Zhang began developing in 2018. It was lovely to sit and chat with Aileen and hear their story and vision and they seem like a remarkable team; with passion and enthusiasm in bringing their dream to fruition. They saw a … Continue reading Banksia Bakehouse, CBD
Unless you know it’s there, you may drive right on past, as Stix is in an industrial area of Marrickville, situated amongst a few factories and mechanics. However, if you’re meeting friends, do pay this place a visit, but be sure to give yourself enough time to find a car park. The cafe occupies a … Continue reading Pastries, bread and treats galore @ Stix, Marrickville
A chain of pastry stops in both stand alone stores as well as shopping centres. We visited the new eastgardens store. Plenty of pastries to fill those bellies from plain and chocolate croissants to donuts and more. There’s also some savoury options like borek whether it be cheese, cheese and spinach, meat, cabbage or potato. … Continue reading Baked and Co
The Old Fitz in Woolloomooloo came to our attention through the timeout bar awards, where they won “best bar food”. We liked the sound of the menu so we figured we’d grab a few foodie friends and check it out for ourselves. We went on a Friday night and it was a lively place with … Continue reading The Old Fitzroy Hotel
Attention all chocolate lovers - do you want a one stop chocolate shop where you can learn, create, taste and take home? This is the place for you! The chocolate factory can be found in West Gosford in the central coast of NSW, just outside the Gosford city. The factory has tours, a gourmet cafe, … Continue reading The chocolate factory – the sweetest place on the central coast
