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Bar, Restaurant, Sydney

El Loco

El Loco Mexican Cantina Y Barra is the latest addition to the Merivale empire. Found on Foveaux St, Surry Hills, it is a cute, thrown together, shabby chic cantina serving frozen margaritas, Mexican beer and $5 tacos. It is cute, casual and very happening. It was packed today at 2pm […]

Restaurant, Sydney

Universal

The evening was off to a good start; torrential rain and nobody had seemed to get the memo about building an ark. It took us close to an hour and a half to get from Redfern station to Darlinghurst, a journey that should take no longer than five minutes… that’s […]

Cake, Desserts, Recipes

Perfect Scones – Part 3

Right off the back of batch two, I decided to try another recipe. This third variation comes from Australian, Bill Granger, a self-taught cook, restauranteur and food writer. These rose really well, but I found them to still be a little bland. Sigh. I took both of tonight’s batches to […]

Cake, Desserts, Recipes

Perfect Scones – Part 2

It continues… Today I made a batch of scones using Paul Hollywood’s recipe. He is one of the official judges on The Great British Bake Off. His recipe is more involved than the first I tried. They had a good sconey flavour, but were rather dense. You also cannot whip […]

Cake, Desserts, Recipes

Perfect Scones – Part 1

In preparation for round two of The Great British Bake Off – Down Under, the quest for the perfect scone recipe has begun. I have never made scones before and there seems to be such a wide array of vastly different recipes… I started with the simplest. People had sworn […]