Chris Singh 
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
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
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
When it launches on Sydney Harbour on Thursday, October 30, Solaré 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
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
It’s the last week of Sydney Fringe Festival, with the brunt of the experimental event folding up the end of this month. And what a month it’s been, bringing in a tremendous amount of daring stage shows, saucy cabaret and immersive art with hundreds of events loading up the 2025 program. There’s been a lot
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
For more than 20 years, the Western Sydney suburb of Cabramatta has been a source of boundless energy, life and laughter in early October. That’s for the Cabarramatta Moon Festival, one of the most colourful, delicious and vigorous celebrations in the city all year. The communal-minded lunar festival has become such a hotly anticipated event
While the start of the year is peppered with public holidays, the second half stretch is fairly quiet until we hit the Christmas holiday break. And that’s why the October Long Weekend is always so hotly anticipated for Sydneysiders aching for some extra beach time, or an extra day off to check out the latest
An under-radar waterfront favourite has been completely transformed over at South Sydney’s Kyle Bay, with beloved fine diner Jaaks falling in line with Sydney’s reinvigorated love for more casual Greek food. Jaaks is now a Greek tapas bar— a mezedopolio, if you will—that’s gearing up for late summer nights pairing souvlakia with ouzo and hopping
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