HeyJaredTerry Durack Eats
Restaurant critic Terry Durack reports from the table on where to eat and why.
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RESTAURANTS WITH FRINGE BENEFITS. (opens the original)
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There is no honest way to explain ‘the edge’, says novelist Hunter S. Thompson, “because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”Which makes those bars, restaurants and cafes that live on the edge more interesting than those who cling to the conventional centre. I’m not talking about the super-eccentric and revolutionary, just the ones who’ve made different choices and then made them work. The bars that open surprisingly late into the night, the restaurants t
THE RISE OF THE IMPROBABLE RESTAURANT. (opens the original)
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Are we seeing the rise of the improbable restaurant? Something is happening out there that suggests a new, tentative, era of bravery. The tightening of safety belts over the last couple of years has ensured us an over-kill of sandwich shops, steakhouses and French bistros with increasingly same-same offerings, so this is hopeful.We know that the business of hospitality is getting harder, and that how people were taught to run a restaurant back in the day may not stack up against the higher costs
WHY EVERYTHING YOU EAT RIGHT NOW SHOULD BE ASIAN. (opens the original)
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I’ve given up trying to find a theme for these monthly reports, because they just throw hissy fits and refuse to be categorised. And then, every time, they go and settle into an absolute theme whether I like it or not.Take this month. Beachside Bronte gets an unduly glamorous Japanese-focussed seafood restaurant and sushi bar in Fishnets. Thaitown gets a ridgy-didge Thai live music cocktail bar with char-grilled chicken and four types of pad Thai noodles, in Krung. One of my favourite cooks, Kha
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