New destination venue for Terrigal beachfront
Fancy a Bubble O Bill cocktail to wash down that Flamin’ Hot Dorito Fried Chicken? Well burger restaurant, Milky Lane, will give you that opportunity when it opens its sixth…
Food
Chef celebrates 20 years at restaurant
A Pearl Beach restaurant has celebrated the 20-year service of owner Mr Scott Fox as head chef. Mr Fox became joint owner of Pearls on the Beach restaurant, with his…
Down in the Garden: Home with Hibiscus
As summer returns to the Coast, so do the hibiscus! We have a bit of a love affair with this tropical looking blossom as any balmy evening walk through our…
The reinvention of Young Barons
Popular Woy Woy pasta restaurant Young Barons has rebranded as a specialist deli in response to coronavirus challenges. Instead of closing during the period of strict social restrictions, owners Bryce…
Bitter: the abandoned flavour
Bitter: the abandoned flavour It’s a flavour that is regularly associated with harshness and the downright intolerable, yet bitter foods (and especially greens like radicchio, endive and dandelion) are an…
Herb expert to present at 2020 Oxford virtual Symposium
Ian ‘Herbie’ Hemphill, the man behind Charmhaven based Herbie’s Spices, will be featured in the 2020 Oxford virtual Symposium on Food and Cookery in July. For almost 40 years, the…
Celebratory event has boutique wine and gourmet food
The Pearl Beach Food and Wine Fare will be held at the Pearl Beach Memorial Hall from 10am to 5pm on September 28. The Fare is a celebratory event marking…
Wrong place to grow water-hungry crops
[Forum] Call me heartless, but I am afraid that I have very little sympathy for ‘Big Irrigation’, who also steal water by by-passing their meters, who insist on growing water-hungry…
Students taught how to reduce the risk of death and disease
A Fruit and Veg Sense workshop will be held at Green Point Christian College on June 3, with the message that adding more fruit and veg to the daily diet…
That Julie Goodwin can cook
I had lunch at the Community Kitchen on Saturday, and who was there but our very own Julie Goodwin? That stir-fry she served up was probably one of the best…