Our Eating Recommendations

As we have mentioned on our Food page under Cafe/Restaurant Standards, we have high standards to meet when eating out. If we can get better at home then why would we want to eat worse and pay more for it?

There are gems out there amongst the rabble, so we thought we’d list where our standards have been met. These places need to be supported as they are quite outstanding.

The way we have listed each place is by the year we visited. We all know places can change over time so some of our recommendations may become outdated (we hope not though). A few we have visited more than once so those are listed as the year most recent. If you have Instagram then you can look at either of our photo maps to see pictures of most of the places. This page will be continually updated as we visit new places.

AUSTRALIA

Sydney

Restaurants:

2011 – Bau Truong Vietnamese Restaurant, Cabramatta
2012 – Din Tai Fung, World Square
2012 – The Hermitage, Campbelltown
2013 – Maharaja’s Haveli, Quakers Hill

Bars:

2012 – The Stuffed Beaver, Bondi

Other:

2013 – Outback Steakhouse, Parklea (funnily enough for everything but their steak)

Greater New South Wales

Cafes:

2012 – The Famous Berry Donut Van, Berry (only for their donuts mind you)
2013 – Cream Patisserie, Bermagui

Restaurants:

2013 – Tilba Valley Wines, Narooma

Melbourne

Cafes:

2012 – Proud Mary, Collingwood
2013 – Seven Seeds, Carlton
2013 – Three Bags Full, Abbotsford
2013 – Dead Man Espresso, South Melbourne

Queensland

Cafes:

2013 – Lamkin Lane Espresso Bar, Caloundra

Restaurants:

2013 – Spirit House, Yandina