Thanks to Taylors Wines I have a bottle of their Shiraz 2010 ($19) and Pinot Gris 2011 ($19) to giveaway to two foodie cravings readers (wine packs valued at $38). For your chance to win simply sign up to receive foodie cravings by email, like foodie cravings facebook page and comment with your favourite...
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November just seems to be the month that everything happens. For those of you who live in Western Australia, you’ll know Margaret River’s food and wine festival Gourmet Escape is coming up this November 22 – 25. Thanks to the promoters, foodie cravings readers can purchase two Gourmet Village tickets for $50 (usually $74...
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Tuesday felt like Friday last week when we celebrated my colleague Sweet M’s birthday with an impromptu lunch at Amphoras Bar in West Perth. We started with a glass of 2009 Bress Pinot Noir ($9)… One of the girls had an espresso martini, which looked amazing… Between the 6 of us we shared the...
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For my birthday, my friend mahara took me out to a wonderful dinner at Duende. I had always driven/walked past, heard amazing things but the one time I went to book Duende it was under renovations. My Duende experience was back in March and until my sister-in-law went there a couple of weekends ago...
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Almost a decade ago, I decided red wine was too much of a stain risk and that white wine was the way to go And I’ve been choosing white wine over red ever since… that is until I was introduced to Basse Felix Estate’s Red Pinot (2009) at Clarences late last year. I was impressed by...
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We were taken to Table 78 in West Perth for lunch yesterday. It’s a charming restaurant with character and the service was wonderful as was the food. To start we had the olive oil, crisp bread with dips to share: Roast beetroot & feta zucchini Mint & garlic eggplant Tomato & olive The dips were different and the...
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The George, 216 St George Tce, Perth, (08) 6161 6662 Open Weekdays 7am-12am; Sat 1pm-12am; Sun 1pm-5pm In celebration of mushie’s engagement we went to The George for lunch. It was a good choice as we didn’t have to walk too far and this is an important lunch criteria with the random weather we’ve...
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Hanami, 685 Beaufort Street, Mount Lawley, (08) 9371 9855 Open for lunch Monday – Friday and dinner everyday It was so lovely to catch-up with the girls for Japanese at Hanami. I had been many times before but not recently so I had high expectations based on my wonderful past experiences. What I loved...
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It’s been a wonderful long weekend filled with lots of food and catch-ups with our family & friends. I even met my pen pal of 16 years for the very first time on Saturday! My pen pal and her husband were staying with their friend Andy the Chef in Como so we thought the...
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I think I really surprised the girls (and myself) today, I arrived at Monte Fiore in Mount Lawley at 12:59pm for a 1pm booking and waited 15 minutes for the girls to rock up. The girls were having bets that I wouldn’t be there when they arrived! burger boy and I are renowned for being late Monte...
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I just had the most delicious Honey Pork Ribs ($35) at Lacker’s Grill! It just fell off the bone and the honey flavour was delicious without being too strong. Plus, an amazing dessert and half a bottle of wine to compliment but surprisingly I’m not feeling sickly after all that food! The chocolate swirl dessert that my friend...
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