A little love for Australian diningI'm always a bit dubious about these 'World's Best' lists. Who actually gets to decide what's best? And can you really rank restaurants across the globe as though we're comparing apples with apples? I'm not entirely sold on the exercise, but it's hard to begrudge a bit of homegrown recognition. Sydney's Saint Peter has just landed at number 50, putting Australian dining back into the rankings for the first time in eight years. Whether you put much stock in these lists or not, it's a bloody good result for Josh, Julie and their team.
'The Weekend Edit' is live: a new weekly round-up of the best things to do, drink, see, eat, listen, and dance to this side of Monday. After all, we’re given the inside scoop on what’s happening across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and beyond – some we make, some we wish we had. So we’re passing this onto you.This week, Gozney’s taking over the courtyard at L’Avant Cave in Paddington, Central Station Records is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a vinyl party, Midland and Galcher Lustwerk land at Freeform Open Air in Marrickville, Champions Stakes Day and Fisher will bring Melbourne Cup Week to a close at Flemington, and the team behind Clarence has opened Japanese-inspired grill Nitō in Brisbane’s Fish Lane. See you there.
Hex-ceptionally cool..HexClad have teamed up with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s STILL G.I.N. brand to release a new wine chiller, and it's a surprisingly sharp piece of design.Instead of the usual bucket of melting ice, it uses two interchangeable temperature pucks. You freeze the one you need, drop it in the base, and set your bottle on top. It keeps whites around 7°C and reds at 16°C for up to four hours.Beyond the temperature control, I think the geometric metal finish actually makes for a slick centrepiece.It goes for $199 and has arrived just in time for those looking to keep their spirits high and their tables dry this festive season.
With three races to gothere’s still plenty of reason to tune in to the Formula 1 season, even after Kimi was crowned in Mexico.Frankly, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton ran out of runway in the regular season to catch the youngest champion in history, but that doesn’t mean they’ll take their foot off the boost button heading into Brazil.São Paulo is one of the great stops on the calendar, with the added weight of being Senna’s home race and a favourite of both drivers. More importantly, there’s still plenty to fight for behind Antonelli, with the remaining podium places up for grabs and Verstappen and Hamilton having every reason to make the final stretch their own mini title race. 2021, anyone?
I've just started listening to a new dramatised audiobook called Bear HuntAnd I’m absolutely hooked. The premise: a British passenger plane goes down in the North Sea after its GPS is jammed by the Russians, setting in motion an elaborate plan to assassinate the Russian president. It’s a series of about 10 hour-long episodes. Thank me later.
MobLand S2 has been kind of a letdown so far..Coming off such a strong first season, I was expecting more of the swagger, sharp dialogue and twists that made it such a fun watch. Instead, I feel it’s taken a while to find its feet – a little laboured and overly reliant on gratuitous violence, industrial-strength swearing and familiar clichés. Almost like a parody of itself.Having The Gentlemen's second season fresh in the memory (which I thought was an absolute ripper) hasn't helped matters. By comparison, MobLand S2 just feels slightly lacklustre.Thankfully, things are starting to pick up, and the double-crosses are starting to reveal themselves. I'm not writing it off just yet. With the finale still to come, I'm hoping Mr Ritchie can pull a rabbit out of the hat and rescue what has been a bit of an underwhelming season.
