Food Travels

Neil Perry: The fab four

Food creator turns food critic: Neil Perry dines at the LA restaurants of four top US chefs.

Four of America’s superstar chefs have opened restaurants in Los Angeles in the past few years, jazzing up the dining scene. I decided to try them out on a recent visit to LA.

First up was Wolfgang Puck’s modern steakhouse Cut in the Beverly Wilshire hotel. The mastermind of many American restaurants at every level – from Puck Express outlets in airports to his famous two Michelin-star restaurant, Spago – Puck opened Cut in 2006....

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Our insider guide to the best gelati in Rome

Our favourite gelaterias in Rome's historic centre, matched-up with close-by major attractions.

In Rome, a top gelateria should offer not just a scoop of palatable pleasure but also a visually delicious piazza, fountain or outlook while you lick. Gelato is acceptable to eat at any time of day in Italy and if you see these impossibly thin, chic Roman women strutting down cobblestone, I can verify that while they'll forgo pizza and pasta, even they submit to the joy of the gelato...

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Frank Camorra: My top Barcelona eateries

Frank Camorra, chef at Melbourne’s MoVida restaurant and co-author of a new guide to Barcelona, names his top 10 eateries in the Spanish city.

Barcelona for many is the gateway to Spain. For me it is my birthplace. Although I was raised in the south of Spain and grew up in Australia, I am drawn back to this amazing city year after year. Every time, I head to my favourite haunts and explore new places beyond the tourist traps. Barcelona is ever-changing, somehow expressing its historical food roots yet remaining the powerhouse of modern global cuisine...

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Industry Insider: Wellington by night

Despite sharing its name with a wet weather-defiant rubber boot, New Zealand’s capital city has style to burn. Some of Wellington's best bars and venues are discreetly tucked away for you to find. From elegant cocktail lounges to award-winning bars and party clubs, Wellington Tourism nominates some night owl hotspots.

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Perth Dining: The Best in the West

The confluence of a mining boom and the liberalisation of licensing laws has sent energetic Perth restaurateurs and bar owners into overdrive, with small bars, restaurants and coffee shops opening with amazing regularity.

Locals are rethinking their breakfast, lunch and after-work habits - and the new enterprises are proving a boon to business travellers and holidaymakers. Nightlife, too, has upped the ante, with new bars such as Helvetica, Venn, LouVe, the Terrace Lounge, XO and a little further afield - 399, Five Bar, Clarence’s and the Ellington Jazz Club. Two major projects on the Terrace, Print Hall and City Square - will see more than $10m invested in at least 16 new venues in the next year...

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Industry Insider: Singapore #1 for food

Suggested meals at some top restaurants in Lonely Planet's "most popular food destination".

Sharing pole position with New York, Singapore has been recently awarded with the "world’s most popular food destination" tag by Lonely Planet. From the Singapore Tourism desk, here are some suggested meals from their selected restaurants; from cheap and easy eats to five-star fare.

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Tasting Tasmania

No longer the single-fruit state, today the Apple Isle grows ginseng, truffles, saffron and other exotic treats.

Tasmania has traditionally been associated with apples, potatoes, raspberries, strawberries and honey. But these days, visitors to rural roadside stalls and farmers’ shops are in for some surprises.

Tasmanian farmers have been experimenting with produce that would have their forebears scratching their heads. Ginseng, baby abalone, saffron, truffles and new berry varieties are just some of the tastes luring foodies to the southern state...

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Explore New York's NoMad Central

You don’t have to be a boho rambler to enjoy the laid-back cool of NoMad’s new bars, hotels and restaurants.

You’ve seen the Village—Greenwich and East. Done SoHo, NoHo and the Lower East Side. You’ve even explored Brooklyn. Just when you thought there were no more hip hoods to hang out in NYC, along comes NoMad (or North of Madison Square Park), the city’s hottest new neighborhood. Here’s our guide to getting around like a local...

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Late-night dining in Melbourne

We quiz some of the city’s leading food and wine identities on their preferred late-night dining destinations.

Melbourne is a city that prides itself on keeping things hidden. A restaurant or bar at the end of a bin-strewn lane, up a flight of stairs or behind an unmarked door gets an instant credibility boost among locals merely by being tricky to find. This addiction to the hidden is even more apparent when looking for somewhere to have supper late at night, particularly if your ambitions are greater than finding something salty and greasy to counteract several drinks too many...

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Neil Perry at large in London

From powdered duck and tipsy cake to terrines and turbot, Neil Perry steps up to the plate.

I hadn’t been to London in two years, a long time in the culinary world, so a recent trip was the perfect opportunity to make up for lost meals. First stop was dinner at The Ledbury. Head chef Brett Graham has come a long way since starting his apprenticeship in Newcastle (New South Wales) as a 15-year-old. While at Sydney’s Banc, he won the prestigious Josephine Pignolet Award, which saw him relocate to the UK. Now he’s at the helm of a two Michelin-starred restaurant in Notting Hill. Standouts include flame-grilled mackerel with avocado, shiso and celtic mustard, and pig’s cheek speared with liquorice root and cooked until the skin shatters like toffee...

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