We love eating and drinking, so don’t be surprised to find most of our stories on this page! From restaurants and cafes to home-cooked meals; from slick bars and underground drinking holes to that perfect martini at the bar of Casa de Romance – we talk about it all!
With so many options for breakfast and lunch in Sydney, finding something that really stands out is quite an achievement. We think we’ve done just that though at Kazbah in Balmain. Sadly, Kazbah in Balmain is no more. It closed its doors in early 2020 – just before the terrible Coronavirus Covid-19 epidemic hit. You … Read more
Sydney’s Inner West is arguably the city’s hipster hub. And at its beardy, plaid-shirted epicentre is a brewery. Young Henrys Brewery, to be exact. A place of beer. A place of dreams! Tucked away in the backstreets of Newtown, Young Henrys has grown to be one of the pillars of the Australian craft beer industry. … Read more
Celebrate World Chocolate Day and your love of coffee with this easy and delicious coffee chocolate mousse. I love food, but I’m not a very adventurous cook. If there are too many ingredients or it’s going to take too long to make then I probably won’t even start. Chocolate mousse is one of my specialities. … Read more
Until recently I never bothered decanting my wine. It was a case of how quickly can I get this stuff in my guts?! But since having met my friends the eminent Wine Saints, I’ve become more careful with what I do with my wine. You hear all the time that you’ve got to ‘let the … Read more
Finding something new, interesting and incredibly delicious to eat or drink is probably one of the most satisfying and invigorating things ever! Here are 7 new foodie finds we’ve got our teeth into. When we first thought of this post, Mrs Romance and I were working towards the elegant alliteration of ‘5 Foodie Finds’. But … Read more
Far be it for us to pigeonhole people, Mrs Romance and I have decided to name a few cocktails we’ve made recently after some of our close blogging friends. When we first started thinking of what cocktail would suit Nikki from Styling You, we went straight for a pineapple-based beverage. Nikki is bananas about pineapples! She’s … Read more
Mr Romance will do just about anything for these cookies: only 5 ingredients; the whole recipe takes less than 20 minutes to prepare and cook; they’re even gluten-free. I owe my love of food to my Italian father, but my love of being out of the kitchen to my intrepid mother. So while I love … Read more
Sitting in your favourite pub or café is great, but sometimes everyone wishes they could do all of that at home. These 3 gadgets I use do just that! My mum loves gadgets. A couple of towns over from where my parents live is a shop called Lakeland which sells kitchen gizmos. My mum buys … Read more
Whether this cocktail is a true mojito, a kind of mule or a caprioska, I don’t really care. If Kiera from the bar of Spicers Tamarind Retreat says it’s a mojito, it’s a mojito! One of the hardest decisions I have to make on a regular basis is what to drink when I’m at the … Read more
Hidden in the quiet back streets of North Bondi is a new local secret: Shuk Bondi is a bakery, deli and café that even opens for dinner on the weekends. Once a mixed business corner store of over 40 years’ trading, this backstreet Bondi art deco cornerstone is now an Israeli market place and eatery. … Read more