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The Lost Salad Sandwich

“Where can you find a good salad sandwich on the Gold Coast?” It was a question that sparked a citywide search. Remember the days when a salad sandwich could be bought at every corner store, made to order from the deli bar where stainless steel containers of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and beetroot sat waiting for...
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Hailing from Cesena in Northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, Andrea and Simona Riva, owners of the newly-opened Osteria Del Mare, come from a region of Italy that produces the best parmesan, balsamic vinegar and prosciutto in the world. They cook fine Northern Italian food in their restaurant overlooking Burleigh’s foreshore, food that is lighter than that...
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Whether you’ve made some New Year’s resolutions or not, it’s worth taking a look at what experts say will be key trends on the food scene for 2019. Health is on everyone’s radar, as is the role of a balanced diet in maintaining health. Gut health particularly is in the spotlight, as are foods which...
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Sauerkraut, kombucha, kimchi, … What do these foods have in common, and why should we include them in our diet? They are all fermented. Long before we had refrigeration, fermentation was used to preserve food that would otherwise go to waste. Many cultures also realised fermented foods’ contribution to health, its ‘good’ bacteria contributing to...
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It’s the Matcha chocolate ganache tart that gives it away – a pretty little pie case filled with two shades of green chocolate filling… We may be in Southport suburbia, but we’ve just stumbled upon a well-respected chef in a most unexpected locale. ‘Chanoyu’, meaning ‘a gathering of people to enjoy food and coffee together’,...
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Gold Coast café culture has done well from the downward shift in fine dining culture. Hot Shott is no exception, with owners Chef Kellie Rolfe and barista Jenna Finch leaving Palazzo Versace to open their own business in Main Beach in 2016. Named after their chocolate-lined waffle espresso cup, this ‘play on words’ café bears...
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Named after world class rower Thomas Clifford, Clifford’s Grill & Lounge in the newly launched voco Gold Coast (formerly the Watermark Hotel), is a classy open grill restaurant and upmarket city bar. One wall is dotted with Bakelite radios, overlooking the central focus of the restaurant: the ten-burner grill where chefs are on display preparing...
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Walk along any busy urban street and you’ll see them: takeaway coffee cups dancing merrily up and down, carried by humans in a hurry. Thinking back a few years, it’s staggering how readily Australians moved from sitting down for a coffee break in a china cup to grabbing coffee in a single use takeaway cup.There...
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In a tiny clutch of shops on Monaco Street you’ll find the hugely popular Coffee Sisters café owned by Kylie Jennings. Favoured by fitness-oriented clientele and locals, it’s a place that encourages us to take a stop on the road, enjoy a slower pace, sip great coffee and eat healthy food. Dining alfresco, there’s plenty...
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It takes a lot of guts to start a business, to step aside from a job you’ve excelled at for ten years and go out on your own. It takes passion to succeed, together with a crazy willingness to risk everything to make a fresh start. That’s the passion I see in Alicia Chapman. At...