We share some of the week's best stories, a few you may have missed, and what we've been eating.

News you may have missed






Smaller bites

  • Chef David Thompson is to open a casual Thai restaurant and bar along the Crown Riverwalk in early 2017. Long Chim will be Thompson’s third Long Chim venue in Australia, with Perth already open and Sydney next. “I am delighted to open in Melbourne and to be part of the city’s fantastic restaurant scene,” Thompson said. “I have always wanted a place here and now soon I will.” Thompson’s Bangkok-based Nahm was recently named the 37th best restaurant in the world on the prestigious World’s 50 Best list.
  • Mr Black’s Camilina Panama Geisha Coffee Liqueur is now available to taste at Rockpool Group venues nationally. The liqueur, which contains the world’s most expensive and sought after coffee type, Panama’s Geisha, was launched by Mr Black’s head distiller Philip Moore at Rockpool Est. 1989 on Thursday. Camilina Geisha recently received first prize at the Best of Panama event, which is the Olympic Games of the coffee world. Only 100kg of the beans exist, and these have been purchased in their entirety by Campos Specialty Roasters. Fifty kilograms were reserved to make the liqueur. Only 300 bottles will be produced and people interested in getting their hands on one (for the very reasonable sum of $185) are advised to enroll in the online ballot before August 12. Winners will be chosen at random. delicious. was at the launch and can confirm that the taste of the liqueur lingers teasingly for hours. We’ll definitely be putting our name in the box.
  • A regular, ordinary supermarket customer has gone to war with Tesco in the UK after deciding that he didn’t like its carrots. Aaron, a self-described “carrot aficionado,” was so upset by a bag of carrots that he’d purchased that he decided to take to Twitter and register his disappointment. Asked by a Tesco representative online if he could explain how exactly the carrots had displeased him, Aaron decided to provide “a representative cross sample” of the carrots with accompanying, rather helpful commentary.

What we’ve been eating

  • “I love Kensington Street Social‘s gorgeous little starter called English breakfast tea and toast – wild mushroom ‘tea’ served in twee little tea cups with a relish and bone marrow toast. It’s perfect starter on a freezing, raining winter’s night.” – Kerrie McCallum, Editor-in-Chief
  • “Unpasteurised sake with live steamed snow crab, unagi and pippies, yumepirika rice with uni, foie gras and egg yolk at Sokyo.” – Phoebe Wood, Senior Food Editor
  • “Dinner by Giovanni Pilu from Pilu at Freshwater for ILVE. The chocolate delice was by far the winner of the night – seriously decadent with the freshest mulberries I’ve ever eaten.” – John Hannan, Digital Editor
  • “I enjoyed five courses at Saké Restaurant and Bar this week. There wasn’t a dull one among them, though it’s sake-cured salmon and wasabi cauliflower, and the braised wagyu brisket with shiitake, miso and truffle, that linger in the memory.” – Matthew Clayfield, Digital News Editor
  • “Finally made it to Bar Brosé. If you haven’t been, just go. Go for the blooming onion, the poulet au vin jaune d’Australie (it comes as a quarter or a half chicken with a creamy winey sauce), the musical line-up of Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar and The Lighthouse Family, and the late night sandwich. We couldn’t it in, but friends at another table went two rounds on the pineapple-glazed ham and Comté toastie.” – David Matthews, Senior Subeditor
  • “The guava, rhubarb, yoghurt and ginger dessert at Nel Restaurant was incredible. So refreshing.” – Sophie Kitchen, Editorial Assistant

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