Salt n Peppa Cafe Ristorante

Darwin Foodies have received a couple of recommendations about this place and their online menu indeed looked very drool-worthy. One chick said these guys do the best pasta in all of Darwin, even better than certain other fancy Italian places. Interesting claim indeed.

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24 Aug

Roast and Noodle Bar

Way back when Darwin Foodies was first launched in April I reviewed Roast and Noodles in Anthony Plaza Arcade. These guys do the best Chinese roast pork belly in all the Top End if you ask me and on the weekend I tried the steamed chicken to see if it was as good as their pork.

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23 Aug

Cadbury Dark Cherry Ripe. Join the dark side.

I’m not much of a sweet tooth, but if I was to name my favourite chocolate bar, it’d be cherry ripe. So with all the sexy posters of dark cherry ripe littered on every surface and wall, it was only a matter of time before curiosity got the better of me.

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21 Aug

Sakura Japanese Restaurant. Oishii desu.

Sushi doesn’t always come to you on a plastic plate via conveyor belt, hard to believe as it may, there is a place in Darwin that’ll make it for you fresh and serve it to you on a ceramic plate – that place is Sakura Japanese Restaurant.

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18 Aug

Bacon and Egg Chronicles: Xtreme Caffeine

Darwin’s latest coffee shop/cafe to open, Xtreme Caffeine is all about”coffee the way it’s meant to be – the way you like it”. Today’s mission though, is to find out if the bacon and egg toastie is any good.

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16 Aug

Gourmesta Tasting Squad

Last night Emma, myself, our partners and a group of other passionate foodies attended the inaugural Tasting Squad Brunch held by Gourmesta. All in all a great night, we sat around drinking, eating, talking and laughing about all things from food to old school ABC kids shows in the 70s.

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14 Aug

Bak Kut Teh – Pork rib soup

A popular soup served in Malaysia, Singapore and China, Bak Kut Teh literally translates as ‘meat bone tea’. In this case, the meat is pork ribs and the tea consists of a bucket load of herbs and spices I’ve never heard of.

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10 Aug

The best laksa in town?

In all seriousness, I don’t know how anyone could resist a sumptuously delicious bowl of laksa from Rendevous Cafe?
As far as I am concerned it is the granddaddy of laksas in a city that has many “Best Laksa’s in Town”.

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09 Aug

Dinner at The Deck Bar

After the lunch menu at The Deck bar got the overhaul, the dinner menu has just had the same Asian inspired treatment applied to it. Among many new additions to the menu, there’s now a mouth watering variety of Asian tapas on offer.