Food Archives – The Dressed Fork

Restaurant Dining Cheat Sheet: How To Have a Great Meal Every Time

Posted on October 4, 2024November 20, 2024 by thedressedfork

I view eating out much as I do gambling – I’m in it for the win. Who has time to waste on the average or merely good when exceptional dining experiences await around every corner if you only know where ... Continue Reading

How To Spend 8 Perfect Hours On The Mornington Peninsula

Posted on April 8, 2024November 20, 2024 by thedressedfork

Armed with a tank full of petrol and a hankering for exceptional food and wine? Say helloo to the Mornington Peninsula. This ridiculously picturesque corner of the globe has some of the best eating and drinking to be found anywhere, ... Continue Reading

The Glamorous Melbourne Restaurant You Need To Visit Now

Posted on April 22, 2018April 22, 2018 by thedressedfork

What do you get when you cross sublime Italian cuisine with a magnificent wine list and one of the most majestic dining rooms in all of Melbourne? Why Neil Perry’s restaurant Rosetta, of course – a welcome addition to Crown ... Continue Reading

Seminyak Spoils: Where to Drink and Dine in Bali’s Favourite Hotspot – Part 2

Posted on November 26, 2017November 27, 2017 by thedressedfork

Bali Bliss: it’s not a state of mind so much as a state of being. After your fourth massage and sunset session in as many days, your skin is glowing, your eyes are luminous, and the breath’s dropping so deep ... Continue Reading

Seminyak Spoils: Where to Drink and Dine in Bali’s Favourite Hotspot – Part 1

Posted on November 12, 2017November 13, 2017 by thedressedfork

Friends, it’s been an age since I last posted – but my life-draining PhD is finally finished (hoorah!!) and I have only just come up for air. I promise never to leave you for so long again. K and I ... Continue Reading

The Game-Changing Brisbane Restaurant You Need To Visit Now

Posted on August 20, 2017August 24, 2017 by thedressedfork

When K and I missed out on buying an apartment earlier this year that was within walking distance of Brisbane's Gerard’s Bistro, it was a wounding blow. I had already envisaged our date nights at this chic Middle Eastern restaurant: ... Continue Reading

The Restaurant Report: Royal Mail Hotel lunch at Sails, Noosa

Posted on August 6, 2017 by thedressedfork

Food and wine festivals are a particular passion of mine. If I were rich I would happily flit around the globe to these scrumptious events, savouring the lunches and dinners and enlightening masterclasses, boozing with chefs and restaurant critics into ... Continue Reading

The Restaurant Report: Veuve Clicquot lunch at Bacchus, Brisbane

Posted on June 11, 2017June 16, 2017 by thedressedfork

At 11.30 a.m. last Sunday our trio arrived at Brisbane’s Bacchus Restaurant after a tense Uber ride where Mum had lost the back off her favourite earrings. Five hours later we sailed ecstatically into the late afternoon, survivors of the ... Continue Reading

The Restaurant Report: Wasabi, Noosaville

Posted on May 21, 2017May 28, 2017 by thedressedfork

Nothing thrills me more than the prospect of a lazy lunch at a great restaurant, one where you’re still savouring that second glass of Armagnac as around you the wait staff start prepping for dinner. I find the production of ... Continue Reading

My Perfect Day: Paris – Breakfast

Posted on May 7, 2017June 25, 2017 by thedressedfork

One thing is certain: you don’t go to Café de Flore – that fabled literary institution in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Pres – for the service. If you are famous or exceedingly elegant or demonstrably rich (preferably all three), the waiters ... Continue Reading