Sydney Eaters: 2014

Monday, 20 January 2014

Thursday, 16 January 2014

Cafe XXII

No idea about where to go for brunch? You might want to give Cafe XXII a try!

Located at Pyrmont, Cafe XXII is popular for its brunch menu, although they are also open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. However, it is only open from Wednesday to Sunday for dinner. Cafe XXII is a sandstone cottage that gives you a feel of Mediterranean culture. This place is located exactly behind Star City, so it is very easy to spot. The price range for its brunch menu is mostly below $20, showing that Cafe XXII is not very expensive compared to other brunch places in average.

These are some of the brunch menus that it offers:

Florentine

XXII big breakfast

Benedict

Address: 22 Union St, Pyrmont NSW 2009
Phone: (02) 9552 3093

SSAM Korean BBQ

reference: http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Restaurant_Review-g255060-d949103-Reviews-SSAM_Korean_BBQ-Sydney_New_South_Wales.htmlIn SSAM Korean BBQ, it is really fun to cook your own food on the grill. We had the bulgogi and some pork. All the lettuce and pickles we could get through. The food that is offered here is very tasty. However, the side dish of pancake was not as good as I've had at other Korean places (outside of Sydney).

We had a couple of beers and we came out having spent under $60. It is not very expensive in terms of price-wise and we will definitely be going back.
Address: 508 King St, Newtown NSW 2042Phone: (02) 9519 1991

Thursday, 9 January 2014

Crave Sydney Food Festival

reference:http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/aroundtown/events/29664/crave-sydney-international-food-festival-2012

The food festival, after operating as Crave Sydney for four years, the 31-day food festival returns in October as the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Month. which attracted almost a million eaters in 2013, will feature a line-up of celebrated chefs including rene redzepi, the creative genius behind Copenhagen’s Noma – ranked second best restaurant in the world. Plus, there will be the much-loved night noodie market in Hyde Park, ultimate high tea events, bar and pub events, pop-up parties, hands-on cooking classes and more.

Kamikaze Japanese Teppanyaki Restaurant

Kamikaze Japanese Teppanyaki restaurant is located at darling harbour. Teppanyaki refers to dishes cooked using an iron plate, these restaurants are a unique experience, not like a traditional restaurant. If you want entertainment at dinner Kamikaze Teppanyaki is the place to go. The cooks are highly trained to keep customers entertained, they perform tricks while cooking in front of you. One of the many tricks that cook perform is egg catching. They make the customer hold a bowl while the cook using is Japanese flat iron knife flicks the egg trying to land the egg in the bowl. If the egg doesn’t make the bowl then the customer ends up wearing it.

One of the tricks to keep the customer entertained

The Teppanyaki restaurant has dinner sets to choose from , all meals are served Teppan vegetables, steamed rice, kamikaze salad, miso soup. The customer gets a choice of the meat or seafood for mains. There is wide variety of seafood from prawns to octopus, and for meat all the traditional meat are available from chicken to beef.

King prawn dinner set

Teppanyaki steamed rice

The staff were very friendly including the cook. The customer service was at another level from other restaurants that I have been to. The waiters were frequently serving drinks and making sure that everything was alright and assisting as much as they could while cleaning the mess from all the tricks.

If you want an entertaining night especially if you have kids, this restaurant will be an experience for the whole family.

Address: Shop 347, Level 2, Harbourside Shopping Centre / Darling Dr, Sydney NSW 2000
Phone: (02) 9211 1993

Malabar South Indian Restaurant

Malabar restaurant located at Crows Nest, known for its South Indian Cuisine food. Normally when people think of Indian restaurant they think of the traditional North Indian food, butter chicken, Lamb Kofta and Nann bread.

The restaurant on busy night

Last Wednesday at lunch time I had the opportunity to eat this restaurant. The traditional south Indian food being dosa (look at picture below) served with Sambar(lentil broth) is what Malabar house specialty.

The dosa is thin, crisp, golden brown rice and lentil pancake.

Malabar offer a range of flavors from plain dosa to Chicken dosa, where chicken pieces are stuffed inside the pancake. The restaurant does offer North Indian food, curries. During lunch times they have a Vegetarian and Non Vegetarian special. In the vegetarian Special the entree consist of mini dosa and the mains are eggplant and potato, mixed vegetable curry with dal and rice. The non vegetarian special, the entree being the same as the vegetarian special. The main course consists of lamb varutha, butter chicken, mixed vegetable and rice.

I would recommend one tries the lunch special as mini dosa is served as an entree. This would allow one to taste a dosa which is not found in many Indian restaurant due to dosa being south Indian food.

Chat Thai Restaurant

ยินดีต้อนรับเข้าสู่ร้านอาหารของฉัน...

(Welcome to My Restaurant!)

Chat Thai Westfield, Pitt St, Sydney

Reference:www.chatthai.com.au

Cravings for Thai food? Chat Thai might have been the best answer for you!Located at the Westfield Shopping Mall, Pitt Street, Sydney this wonderful place serves the best yet affordable price for tasting the delicious, tasty Thai foods. It has been well-known for over 25 years of its authenticity and delicacy of the dishes that is for sure, putting spells to people to come back for more! Prices are ranging from as cheap as $4 for its appetizer, up to $25 for its main courses. Chat Thai has few other branches spreading across Sydney to ensure that customers who live close by the place do not have to travel too far to CBD area to enjoy the food.

Khanom-buaing

Goong Yaang, char-grilled King prawn

Khor Mhu Yaang, pork-neck grilled.

Mhu Grob Padt Prik Khing

Padt Thai

Here is just one of the few that I believe will melt your tongue! Chat Thai Restaurants' business hours vary depending on the location. One of the best would be at Campbell Street, they do serve until 2am in the morning from 10am. So, there are still times for late-night supper!

reference:http://jujichews.com/

Happy Eating!

Westfield Pitt Street
Address: Shop 6002, Level 6 188 Pitt St, Westfield Centre Point
Phone : (02) 9221 0600

Campbell Street Branch

Address: 20 Campbell Street, Haymarket NSW 2000

Phone : (02) 9211 1808

Other Branches:

The galeries (CBD)
http://www.chatthai.com.au/#galeries-tab

Manly
http://www.chatthai.com.au/#manly-tab

Randwick
http://www.chatthai.com.au/#randwick-tab

Micky's Cafe

Time for Brunch...

Located at paddington suburban area, this place caters the need of hungers who really wanna get the taste of real brunch. Micky's Cafe has been established and running for over 20 years, with the delicacy that is never to fade away from its dishes, especially the brunch menus.The place opens at 8am till midnight and they serve the breakfast menu till five in the afternoon. Therefore, there is no reason for not trying!

Here is just a few of what they have:

Scrambled-egg Brekky.

Micky's Special Burger

Sunny-sided Egg Big Brekky.

Poached-egg Bennedict.

Sprinkle the top with some seasonings and you are good to go,

Don't forget to give some tips because the food is absolutely magnificent!

Location: 268 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW 2021

Phone: (02) 93615157

Sokyo

Are you craving for a fine japanese degustation? Sokyo might be the right place for you! Located at The Star, this place offers you with a range of delicious japanese dishes, a great ambience, as well as an exceptional service.

The interior of Sokyo

reference: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars

For the prices, most of the food here are quite expensive and the size is generally small, because all the dishes that they offer is more about quality than the quantity. So, you might need to order a little more if you want to come out full. Most days, especially on weekends, Sokyo is fully occupied and it is recommended for you to consider making a reservation beforehand.

The menu is divided into sections, which are sashimi, tempura, robata, essential dishes, salad, soup, nigiri, and sushi rolls. They also offer a variety of desserts as well as wine. And if you are a vegetarian, you can still eat freely here because Sokyo has a vegetarian menu. For lunch time, they also have choices of lunch sets for $45 each. From the waiter's recommendation, usually customers are encouraged to order at least one dish from each section, and you will be amazed by the uniqueness of the taste of each of their dishes.

Beef Robata

Red Snapper

Tuna Umami

Kingfish Miso Ceviche

DengakuMan

Sushi Rolls

Sokyo "Mochi Ice Cream" with Green Tea Ice Cream

Address: Level G, The Darling The Star/80 Pyrmont St, Pyrmont NSW 2009

Phone: (02) 9657 9169

GOODGOD Small Club

Wondering around and thinking what to eat? Well why not go to GOODGOD Small Club.

Located in the heart of Sydney is a little club in Liverpool St. They have a variety of things to do and eat.

reference: www.goodgodgoodgod.com

The Front Bar has plenty of space for you to eat and drink, they also have these white washed booths. On Wednesday nights they do Goodgod Trivia at 8PM, answer the questions right and win prizes!

On other nights from 9PM the place turns into a dancefloor having different styles of music on different days.

The Dip Canteen is a popular diner serving classic American fast food favourites. There are options for those who are vegetarian and who eat gluten free stuff.

(Dynamite ChilliDawg)

They offer a variety of hot dogs, you couldn't really taste the chilli in this as the mustard was quite overpowering. But overall it was quite a good hotdog.

(DFC)

Most of the burgers use bagels and there buns. The DFC, was an okay burger there wasnt much highlight to it, but it was just an easy burger with chicken and mayo.

(Salsa Fries)

The Salsa Fries were quite disappointing as it was basically steak chips with shredded cheese and cut up tomato. I was expecting like chutney for the salsa, something for thick and mushed.

They only had 2 selections of desserts, well you can't really expect a variety from a club. But the desserts were quite nice especially the Ice Cold Guac. It's basically avocado icecream with strawberry salsa. The avocado icecream by itself was very cream and doesnt work well alone, but with the strawberry salsa it was just perfect.

(Ice Cold Guac)

The Peanut Butter N' Jelly, was also quite disappointing, it was just peanut butter icecream with a drizzle of jam. The bread was I think just plain bread. So no speciality to that. So if you want a dessert at The Dip, I suggest getting the Ice Cold Guac.

(Peanut Butter N' Jelly)

Location: 55 Liverpool St Chinatown, Sydney CBD

Phone: (02) 8084 0587

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This place has great location. Warm hospitality and sensational food. Friendly stuffs. It's a great place to have a meal with friends and family. They got combo meals taste great and will make you full for sure. They got nice cooked steaks with are their favorite best selling mannal

Zaaffran-Indian Restaurant with waterfront views

Finest Indian Cuisine in Sydney

Zaaffran one of finer Indian restaurant located on the waterfront of darling harbor. The restaurant serves authentic Indian food with a bit of spice to it. Last Saturday night when I ate at the restaurant the customer service was excellent, very friendly staff that went the extra mile to make my dinning experience memorable even though the restaurant was extremely busy on Saturday night. The food was well presented with great taste. Which I was surprised as generally better presented food tends to drop in the quality and taste. The main attraction of the Zaaffran is the unique seafood curries that are available like lobster or prawn curry. The restaurant does offer the traditional curries such as chicken and lamb. For the main course I ordered at salmon curry which was served with yogurt, capsicum, prawn topping with Indian spices. The taste was unique and very spicy. I have never eaten salmon prepared like a curry with spices.

As for the price range the restaurant sits at the higher end with an average main course costing around $30 for meat dishes and vegetarian dishes around $25. The taste of the food and the customer service with waterfront view was well worth the price. This is easily one of the best Indian restaurant in Sydney.

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