Laneway Festival sold out in under an hour. Are music festivals coming back?

Laneway Festival events

Picture New South Wales in the early 2010s and you would think its the most festive state in the world. Field Day, Laneway Festival, Big Day Out, Parklife, Future Music Festival, Listen Out, Stereosonic, Groovin’ The Moo, Harbourlife, Splendour in the Grass, Bluesfest. Music Festivals have always been a big part of Australian culture, especially

Dubai’s viral paratha burgers have finally arrived in Sydney

Paratha burgers in Greenacre

When it comes to its culinary credentials, Dubai is a city of fusion. An embrace of many ethnicities has given the futuristic Middle Eastern city several cross-cultural viral food trends over the years, the most obvious being the hype around Dubai Chocolate and its creamy, crisp and rich textural balance. The latest, however, skews savoury

Surry Hills is getting a free (weekly) laneway pizza party led by Sydney’s best chefs

Pizza party in Sydney

As Ace Hotel Sydney’s first-ever culinary director, Isobel Whelan-Little has already heightened the hotel’s hold on the local community. First, the hip-by-design property overhauled its rooftop restaurant. moving on from Mitch Orr’s work spearheading Kiln to welcome ex-Noma chef Beau Clugston to the fold. Now, she’s introducing Sunday Arvos as a new form of daytime

Vicki Lee Gallery is a new multi-sensory art space for Potts Point

Vicki Lee Gallery in Sydney

Abstract expressionist Vicki Lee has finally opened the doors to what she calls her “private domain of experiment and upheaval” on Bayswater Road in Potts Point. The 260-square-metre Vicki Lee Gallery isn’t your typical white-walled exhibition space. It’s a multisensory playground where visitors are encouraged to lie down, confess their sins, and surrender to sound

Victor Liong opens Lee Ho Fook Sydney at Porter House Hotel

Lee Ho Fook Sydney

After raising his profile under the imposing shadow of Mark Best, Victor Liong set off to open Lee Ho Fook in Melbourne in 2013. Over a decade later and it’s consistently slotted in as one of the finest Chinese dining experiences you can have in the country, sporting two hats and a seemingly endless wait

“World First” Sydney superyacht, restaurant and day club setting sail from October

Solare on Sydney Harbour

When it launches on Sydney Harbour on Thursday, October 30, Solarรฉ will open as Australia’s first Mediterranean-style beach club and Italian restaurant onboard a converted 150-foot superyacht. Scott Robertson, the same mastermind behind Seadeck, has tapped Alex Zabotto-Bentley to work up a retro design to blur the lines between the Mediterranean circa 1970 and Sydney

Sydney’s award-winning Oktoberfest is selling fast – more tickets were just released

A large white tent sits amidst a crowd in a park, with a city skyline as a backdrop

Out of all the many Oktoberfest celebrations that pop up around the world each year, Australia’s touring Oktoberfest in the Gardens is one of the best. In fact, it’s been named one of the top five Oktoberfest celebrations outside of the big one in Munich, with Australia’s springtime weather setting the perfect scene for a

The Australian Native Food Festival will give you a taste for Indigenous cuisine this weekend

The Australian Native Food Festival

After three decades of sharing her knowledge of native Australian cuisine, Ngemba Weilwan woman Sharon Winsor is finally realising a long-held dream with Sydney’s inaugural Australian Native Food Festival, held at Carriageworks this weekend. Winsor, whose business Indigiearth is a widely used source of lemon myrtle, salted dukkah and bush tomatoes, first pitched the free