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‘intel’ 29.09.21

By September 29, 2021October 22nd, 2021No Comments

National food news & reviews

  • Gourmet Traveller announces finalists for its 2022 Restaurant Awards. Gourmet Traveller

  • Aaron Ward joins The Point Group as head chef of The Dining Room. Good Food

  • Attica and Brae make the World’s 50 Best long list. Broadsheet

  • Martin Benn and Vicki Wild part ways with Society. Hospitality Magazine

  • Kylie Kwong, Aunty Beryl and others operate a food truck to encourage vaccinations in inner city Sydney. ABC

  • The Boathouse Group secures Manly Pavilion. The Daily Telegraph

  • How NSW and Victoria’s roadmaps out of lockdown compare. Herald Sun

  • Ace Hotel opens reservations for its first Australian outpost in Sydney. The Urban List

  • Woolworths takes on Amazon with a new online marketplace. Business Insider Australia

  • More top chefs share their secrets with Roberta Muir’s Be Inspired meal kits. Time Out

  • Terry Durack gives Charcoal Fish the thumbs up. Good Food

  • We can’t get to Bannisters (yet), but we can make Rick Stein’s famous fish pie. T Australia

  • Sydney businesses gear up for a busy reopening. The Sydney Morning Herald

  • Neil Perry gets candid with Broadsheet

  • Not all chicken stocks are created equal, says John Lethlean. The Australian

  • The Great Australian Bake Off will return for its fifth season next year. Mumbrella

International news

  • Qantas schedules international flights from 18 December but will those countries let us in? Traveller

  • Claudia Roden: ‘The food writer who never falls out of fashion’. The Guardian

  • In a post-Covid world, being a maître d’ is far from glamorous. The New York Times

  • Pete Wells reviews Eleven Madison Park. The New York Times

  • Nigella Lawson remembers her friend Anthony Bourdain in an excerpt from a new oral biography. Bon Appétit

What we’re eating/drinking:
Spicy margaritas from Calita
The Everleigh x Pidapipo milkshakes
Pies for the Grand Finals
Eggplant parmigiana from David Lovett’s new book Big & Little

What we’re reading/doing:
Kayaking
Playing tennis

What we’re watching/listening to:
Louise Olsen on how Dinosaur Designs became an Australian icon
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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