The Taste of Sydney food festival opened last night.

On until this Sunday, Sydney’s Centennial Park will definitely be a foody’s paradise for the next few days.

Check out more photos on my Flickr page.

The recent Spot Food & Film Festival has given me a taste for… food, so it looks like I’ll be heading along to Taste of Sydney, a four day festival of food and dining, taking place in Sydney’s Centennial Park, from tomorrow 11 March, through until Sunday.
Update: for those looking here, sorry, I don’t have [...]

Surely being nice to restaurant and cafe staff is the best way to get the good service you deserve in return?
Similarly, going to a popular restaurant at the height of the dinner rush and expecting perfect service is folly. Drew Nieporent, the owner of Corton and many other restaurants around the world, says succinctly, [...]

Duke, a part time DJ and Salsa dance teacher, has spent the last few months – working weekends and pulling all-nighters – preparing for the opening of Randwick’s newest cafe, Duke’s Lounge, at 153 Avoca Street.

In addition to being open early enough to serve breakfast, Duke’s Lounge will eventually also be a place to head [...]

TakeOutWithOut aims to encourage us to reduce the amount of wrapping, packing, and accessories (napkins, plastic utensils, etc) that are offered to us with takeaway meals.
Think about the spoons, forks, straws, and napkins that you get served (why do they give you enough for a family of 20 when eating alone?). Ask yourself before accepting [...]

At the Delicious Satay restaurant, Kensington, Sydney.

The layout and design of restaurant and cafe menus, including the use of typography, can greatly influence diners when it comes to selecting what to order, according to US author William Poundstone.
Puzzles, anchors, stars, and plowhorses; those are a few of the terms consultants now use when assembling a menu (which is as much [...]

The “pizza theorem” – which apparently took years to fully formulate – seems to solve the problem of dividing a pizza equally if it has not been evenly cut along its centre.
For a pizza cut once, the answer is obvious by inspection: whoever eats the centre eats more. The case of a pizza cut [...]

MBA students give Spanish restaurant “elBulli” the once-over and find it wanting… the same elBulli that only opens for six months of the year, and from a total of two million requests, grants reservations to just 8000 diners annually.
There is much about the restaurant that is inefficient, as MBAs are quick to note: Adrià [...]

A guide to being a “professional smorgasbord eater”, someone who enjoys extracting the maximum benefit from fixed price “all you can eat” meal deals.
My recommendations are a large dinner the night before consisting mostly of light breads and vegetables to expand the stomach. It is also advantageous to drink plenty of liquids, preferably water. [...]