Hawkesbury Harvest Markets
Inner city office workers unite! No longer must you spend your obligatory Friday team lunch within the confines of a dimly-lit pub. Finally, there is sunshine and fresh air, and finally, there is fine food, cheese and wine tasting (from the bottle not the cask).
The Hawkesbury Harvest Market brings a fete-like atmosphere to the city's doorstep every Friday for four hours.
Market City Lollies
We've been picking and mixing since we were kids. Back then, one of the best pick 'n' mix(es) was at Target. This was when the concept of 'paying by weight' didn't exist. You'd fill a big milkshake cup with lollies for a flat fee. (If you were game enough you'd also shove in a Mars and cover it up with Gummi Bears).
Lee and Me
Sometimes, when two different things meet and create, the most beautiful outcomes arise.
Nashi pears, Eurasions, those little shitsu/pomeranians - all obviously superior races.
This has happened to Lee and Me. Half cafe, half boutique, Lee, Ben (the 'Me') and their beautiful lady friends have birthed a superior child.
Liquor On Parade
I'm not a beer snob - I'm a beer lover. I mean, I love all beers, but they ain't created equal. I wouldn't kick a Toohey's New or a VB outta bed, but they won't make my eyes sparkle like a Murray's, a Knappstein, or a Moo Brew. Mmmmmm...
Beer enthusiasts rejoice, Mecca is close at hand! Kingsford's Liquor on Parade - aside from having a truly awesome name - has arguably the best selection of local boutique beers in town (honourable mentions go to Camperdown Cellars and Sackville in Rozelle).
Manuka Fine Foods
Canberra. For many, its worth equals cheap fireworks and endless porn. However, a recent trip to our capital city unveiled a beacon amidst the bric-a-brac.
On entering Manuka Fine Foods you struck by two things. One, the sheer array of fresh produce, and two, the free samples. Within the first three minutes we had consumed duck pate, fig ice-cream and not one, but two kinds of cheeses fresh from the cheese room.
Pat and Stick's
A few months ago, I was talking to a friend who had just gone through a breakup after a long relationship. She turned to me and said, with a completely serious look on her face, that a good dessert is better than sex. At the time I thought that she'd found her sweet tooth a step up from a bad lay, but then I discovered Pat and Stick's Ice Cream Sandwiches.
Hot Cross Loaf
With tedious predictability, every year I exclaim, ‘I wish you could get hot cross buns the whole year round', and then realise that they just wouldn't be as good then would they.
This Easter, for a different variation on the same theme, visit the Bourke St Bakery for a ‘Hot Cross Loaf'.
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