Coffee Beanz – Epic pies

I have been eating lunch from the same place for the whole week and that place is Coffee Beanz, and tiny little place in the CBD Australia Post Building and home of the best pies I’ve had in a long time.

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23 Sep

Meat pie showdown

I’ve been in love with pies since the 70′s, that’s right, before I was even born. Over the past few months I’ve been slowly but surely scouring the CBD for the freshest and the bestest â€“ today I present my findings. If I’ve missed any, feel free to point me in the right direction by leaving a comment.

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20 Sep

Melissa’s Take Away – Roast pork sandwich

If you hear anybody calling the staff at Melissa’s Take Away stingy, you have my permission to punch them in the face. That is all for now, I gotta go push the computer mouse around for another 4 hours before I can go home.

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18 Sep

Prima Taste Laksa – it comes in a box

I’m making laksa, not from scratch, but from a box! I’ll be using the Prima Taste Laksa sauce kit for todays little experiment. I did a review of their ba kut teh (pork rib soup) a few weeks back and was thoroughly impressed, so expectations are high-ish.

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14 Sep

Lunch at The Cav

The Cav has been given a little makeover inside and a new team behind the kitchen (two from Char Restaurant apparently). With it being hump day and Emma’s birthday, the work gang shut up shop for an hour and headed down the street to check it out.

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12 Sep

Moroccan Tuna and Egg Pastries

I was having on of those relaxed Sundays yesterday flipping through my cookbook collection in search of something ‘different’.
One of my brother’s and his family gave me a Moroccan cookbook a few years ago for Christma…

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11 Sep

Ruby – Modern Vietnamese

Saturday night, the lady and I scrubbed up and headed out to dinner. Ruby at the top of the mall was the destination and Vietnamese was the cuisine. I’ve been here for lunch once before and was very happy with the food then, would dinner be as good?

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10 Sep

K-Tong Casuarina – Pad Siew

It’s been a while since my last visit to Casuarina and I noticed that there’s a Sumo Salad store there now. Whilst it all looked very healthy and what not, I heard something else calling my name from upstairs â€“ ’twas the fried noodles from K-Tong!

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05 Sep

Cooking steak, the Ducasse way

After a few bad steak experiences whilst dining out recently, I wanted to see if I could do any better. So I did a little research and came across a method invented by some fancy 3 hat French chef that sounded like perfect weekend experiment material.