Snacktastic - Sydney Restaurants and Bars - Eat Drink
From morning to midnight and back again, EAT/DRINK is TwoThousand's guide to cafes, bars and restaurants in Sydney. We know the best coffee because we drink 20 a day (each), we know the good restaurants because we can't cook, and we'll tell you where to find hidden bars and other places that still let you smoke so that we can ask you for a cigarette when you get there. EAT/DRINK is as voracious as our appetites and a much better filter than our livers, which stopped working a long time ago. Email your EAT/DRINK suggestions to: talk@twothousand.com.au
Cupcake on a stick
I was never allowed toffee apples when I was a kid, and Peter Combe was always rubbing my face in it with his ode to the dentist's nemesis. I guess ever since I've had a hang-up about sugary treats on a pole.
Enter the cupcake on a stick. Primrose Bakeshop has driven a stake through the heart of the ubiquitous cupcake and serves them up at the Paddington markets every Saturday.
Miracle Berries
Do you ever look down at your beer and wish it tasted like a chocolate milkshake or lament the fact that Tabasco sauce doesn't taste like donut glaze? No, me neither, but luckily for you and I, someone did.
Native to West Africa, the berries of the aptly named miracle fruit contain a protein called miraculin which scrambles your taste buds for an experience of Willy Wonka-esque proportions.
Sweetness, The Patisserie
Marshmallows have replaced cupcakes as our favourite sugar ticket to nostalgia lane. And the mallow matriarch is Gena Karpf. She's been around on the weekend market circuit for a while, and has recently set up a shopfront in the burbs.
While Epping is far from central, it seems only fitting to make the journey to Sweetness.
Bourke Street Bakery
You can take the Bourke Street Bakery out of Surry Hills, but you can't take the ‘Bourke Street' out of the name, apparently.
These happy dough-makers have been doing a great job of keeping our cake holes filled from their Surry Hills, Broadway, Alexandria and CBD stores. Now a new outpost has.
The 5-Minute Chocolate Mug Cake
There is a mythical creature in the land of baked goods. It's the not-hard-to-follow, not-time-consuming, and delicious cake. Thanks to Vexta, it seems to have been found, and get this - you don't even need an oven. ‘Baking without an oven?' you say. ‘Shut up.' No, totally. It's a single serve chocolate cake that's ready in five minutes.
Billabong Ice Creams
While Australia Day might be over, it doesn't mean we have to stop celebrating this country's greats. But forget Stephanie Rice and Mick Dobson for a moment - let's talk about Billabongs.
These little ice cream treats are an Australian classic, but one that can easily be eclipsed into the background by their louder and obviously more-well-funded competitor: the notorious Paddle Pop.
Safety Wolf
Safety Wolf is the restaurant equivalent of black jeans. I'm talking Yul Brynner circa THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN black jeans - the kind that hold their own in a saloon, or a gunfight.
I can imagine Yul pulling up a chair at one of the wooden tables at Safety Wolf. Dusty and thirsty, he'd order an El Diablo (Herradura Silver tequila, Chambord, lime juice and ginger beer), empanadas (tomato and cheese stuffed pastries) and maybe some rough-hewn potato wedges with his hat pulled down low over his face.
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