Food and luxury travel - Malaysia and the world
As usual a trip home to the Gold Coast is filled with the great outdoors, plenty of wine quaffing and fabulous food. On the ‘good things to eat’ side Black Coffee Lyrics was recommended by a number of locals. A funky cafe, located upstairs in a run down ar…
The Red Beanbag has been open for less than a week at Solaris Dutamas and it seems it has already won a following. I witnessed a steady stream of people come in and out of this cafe run by four Aussie educated locals wanting to bring a little of the […]
Not your usual supermarket entrance. Yep, you can get live Christmas trees. Botanical, my favourite section – fresh produce – and you can’t get any fresher than picking your own hydroponic lettuce! Bloom – live florist. Fun, fr…
Recently I discovered I’ve become quite the coffee snoot and am increasingly difficult to please where my java is concerned. Fortunately, a fellow coffee snob recommended Tutmak in Ubud to fulfill my caffeine needs. They roast their beans daily and very m…
Locally roasted, David’s Fine Coffees can be found at markets around Coffs including the Thursday local market in the main street and the monthly wine and gourmet food tasting in the industrial estate in front of North Coast Wines. David’s Fine Coff…
Food on Five is not your ordinary food court. This very upscale sampling of gourmet cuisine showcases some of the best known names in Sydney and from around the world. Dumplings from Din Tai Fung should be on your hit list… but so should… pasta, yog…
I would have overlooked Room 10, a little hole in the wall cafe down a nondescript alleyway in Potts Point, if it weren’t for my bon vivant girlfriend, Shaz. She assured me we’d get a great brew here and she was right. It just so happens, as we were enj…
I’m not a wild fan of Vietnamese coffee. It’s sold on every street corner, advertised in every guide as the thing to do in Vietnam and tourists buy it by the bucket load but I’ve never caught on to the mania. Believe me I’ve tried… eve…
Knowing that I’m always on the search for great coffee in KL a friend introduced me to Le Passione Cafe in Hartamas Shopping Centre. Success! Run by some Aussies they take their coffee making seriously and import their own blend of Brazilian beans. I’…
Anyone for Coffee is another boutique cafe on top of Mt. Tamborine that serves a great cup of coffee. Beans are organically grown about 4 hours north in Childers, Queensland and roasted and delivered every second day to Anyone for Coffee. When I visited there was a s…
Mount Tamborine Coffee Plantation is yet another delicious reason to visit Mt. Tamborine when on the Gold Coast. Coffee beans are grown organically on a small plantation just out the back of the Cafe Gallery. The owners do it all – from growing, to harvestin…
There are many things that Australians don’t appreciate about how lucky they are to live where they do. The amazing standard and availability of great coffee is one of them. I haven’t travelled anywhere else in the world, apart from Italy, where you c…