I think I’ve found my Peter Pan happy place. Yountville welcomes us with a wink, its trees and buildings sparkling under a solid spray of fairy lights. The gentle curves of Washington Street come lined with restaurants; appropriate ornamentation for the Napa Valley’s culinary capital. We’ve come here for some serious R and R; rest […]
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This Christmas has been a little different to usual. Most years it’s about champagne breakfast and panetone french toast on the barbecue at Dad’s, before lunch at Mum’s with turkey, ham, salads and bread. It’s soaked in Sydney sunshine, washed off with a quick swim and sodden with too much sauvingon blanc. This year we […]
There’s an espresso machine in my hotel room. There’s two plasmas and outside the sliding doors there’s a hammock, a barbecue and a beach. Bula you might say. Oh- but I’m deadly serious. No matter how nice your home is, sometimes all you want to do is get away. Despite the fact that only seven […]
There’s something about smoke. Most of our honeymoon was cold and wet. The kind of weather that makes you want to curl up by a fire with a galleon sized flagon of red wine. Through our journey we were constantly being drawn to places with flickering flames and a lick of smoke trickling out the […]
I’ve read and heard lots of things about Mugaritz. Last year Restaurant magazine put it forward as the seventh best restaurant in the world. I’d heard it’s bit like El Bulli for those who can’t get a booking (raise your hands now…).I’d read that Chef Andoni Luis Aduriz is so driven he went and studied […]