Airport Tavern

Well the Airport Tavern (formerly the Airport Hotel bistro) invited me for dinner and reckoned I had better bring my appetite. Challenge accepted.

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07 May

Slow cooker afelia – Pork braised with red wine

So I got myself a slow cooker from Kmart on the weekend and before I was even past the checkout I was already thinking pork belly dish of some kind, because that’s what all the cool kids are eating these days.

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30 Apr

Buzz Cafe – where’s the buzz?

When I heard that Buzz Café at Cullen had a new menu, I got excited. Sure the menu was good before, but there’s nothing like a new menu to stimulate the taste buds, or give me an excuse to dine out.

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29 Jan

The Precinct Tavern

One of the largest dining/wining/pub/bar joints in the Top End, if it weren’t hidden behind trees you’d be able to see The Precinct Tavern from the other side of the harbour. Half restaurant, half bar, half pub, half club, this place breaks all the rules of entertainment and mathematics in one go.

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21 Jan

Pee Wee’s at the Point

Ok I haven’t been to Pee Wees before, but I hear about it all the time. Fancy place with great food yada yada. Whenever I hear the words “fine dining” I think finite amount of food on an infinitely big plate. Let’s see if Pee Wee’s at the Point lives up to the hype…

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06 Jan

The Jetty Restaurant

It’s been a while since I was last at The Jetty Restaurant, a buffet restaurant resting beside/slightly over the ocean at the entrance to Stokes Hill Wharf. As per usual form, I stuffed myself silly.

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11 Dec

Casuarina Club Fail

It is with great sadness that I report the official demise of the Casuarina Club kitchen. They used to serve decent grub as proven by their 2011 win at the AHA NT awards for best club restaurant, but somewhere along the line since then, it all went to shit.

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03 Dec

Vietnamese Saigon Star

The wife and I ended up here after looking for a place to eat a late-ish dinner. Darwin’s oldest serving Vietnamese restaurant, Vietnamese Saigon Star has been providing relatively cheap meals for as long as I can remember.

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20 Nov

Hot Tamale

Hola amigos! I was planning on dining at Manoli’s Restaurant but they were closed for today out of the blue. Darn it! Instead I detoured all the way down to the Darwin Waterfront to check out the new and sexy Mexican restaurant Hot Tamale.