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Congrats to Sepia!!! It has been named as the restaurant of the year in 2012!!

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/sepia-dominates-year-of-dining-simplicity-and-maturity-20110905-1jttt.html

Start planning your dining now!

Good Living today released details of  this year’s winners and the hatted restaurants in the 2011 Good Food Guide.  It seems that eating well doesn’t necessarily mean poshy waiters, starchy tablecloths and $100 bottles of wine.  This year, a number of new casual style eateries were rewarded for their simple, honest food, including Cafe Sopra, and Golden Century.   Sad to see Tetsuya’s lose a star, but having been there twice, I know that it won’t even impact upon it at all, as Tetsuya has a very loyal clientele base.  There you go, start planning your 2011 eating

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/the-sydney-morning-herald-good-food-guide-awards-2011-20100906-14y61.html

Woah…  would you be able to eat this thing before it eats you??

http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/fishzilla-arrives-on-australias-doorstep/story-e6frflri-1225851227501

It’s summer! And summer means amazing fruit. I don’t know how I survive the other 9 months of the year without mangoes, cherries, lychees and grapes. Thankfully the US imports help us out a bit, but it’s not the same freshness or price. What better way to enjoy Aussie grown fruit than to go to an orchard and pick your own. A couple of weeks ago, I went to pick my own cherries in Wombat and Young in NSW. We thought it would be a 4 hr drive as their websites said, but I’m thinking that this excludes traffic in Sydney and also no stops. In the end, we left at 9am and were picking at 2:30 after a fly ridden picnic there. There are several orchards you pick your own fruit including Ballinaclash, Allambie and Wombat Heights. Prices range from $5.50 to $8 per kg. Hurry because cherry season is nearly over, and probably all the good ones are gone! A word of advice wear insect repellant. I still have marks on my legs And wear a hat and heaps of sunscreen too.
If you can’t make it this weekend, never fear, peaches are here. You can pick your own at Pine Crest Orchard in Bilpin. Followed suite are the apples starting from February. See my previous blog entry. Good luck and happy picking. It’s a great way to get food from its source and give our farmers a fair go, as well as showing your kids what real produce tastes like!