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But The Rusty Rabbit, newly hopped into Concord, has solved this existential crisis. This is not a café where vegetarians are forced into the culinary equivalent of sitting at the kiddies’ table with toast and butter. No, here you’re spoilt. Here, the meatless meals strut onto the stage, demand a round of applause, and frankly, steal the show. Of course there are plenty of meaty meals for the carnivores too.
Luxury Escapes has just announced its newest Signature Series tour to Türkiye, and it’s hosted by none other than Shane Delia, chef, TV personality, and the man most likely to know where the really good köfte is hiding.
If heaven has a lobby, I’m convinced it looks exactly like the rooftop of the InterContinental Double Bay during CINCiN’s spring takeover. The lift doors ping open and suddenly you’re bathed in sunshine, staring at a pool so glamorous it practically expects a cameo from Elle Macpherson circa 1996.
There are wine bars, and then there’s that wine bar your friends won’t shut up about. In Surry Hills right now, that’s 40Res, the sort of place where you wander in for “just a glass” and somehow end up staying until they’re stacking the chairs, wondering whether you could get away with adopting the sommelier.
You know that fantasy where you swan into a designer boutique, get handed a glass of something bubbly, and someone whose hair has clearly never been touched by frizz hands you clothes that make you look like an heiress on Housewives of Beverley Hills or wherever is glam these days? Well, The Porter House Hotel Sydney MGallery and Max Mara have just weaponised it into an actual package, the Stay in Style deal, running until 28 December 2025.
Meerkats, for the uninitiated, are small, twitchy desert accountants who stand bolt upright as if perpetually awaiting an audit. They live in mobs (also called gangs, clans, or if you’re particularly uncharitable neighbourhood watch committees with fur), usually numbering around twenty individuals. Super-families of fifty or more exist, but these tend to resemble dysfunctional parliaments where everyone has dirt on everyone else.
Luxury Escapes has announced its latest Signature Series Tour, a nine-day, eight-night wellness retreat in Sri Lanka, hosted by none other than lifestyle oracle, speech pathologist, and general overachiever Bec Judd.
Let’s talk about Kempinski Hotels, shall we? They’re Europe’s oldest luxury hotel group, which sounds terribly grand and possibly a bit dusty, but actually they’re like the cool aunt who inherited a castle, trained in Paris, and now throws legendary parties while quoting T.S. Eliot.
Now, I’ll admit, when I first heard about this whole “Chocolate Hour” thing, I assumed it was a euphemism. You know, like “Happy Hour” or “Conscious Uncoupling.” But no. This is real. Every single afternoon, every single day, the lobby becomes a wonderland of cocoa-fuelled joy.
It’s Chocolate O’Clock Somewhere, Baby
There are many fascinating insights into the world of sommeliers as part of the new Corked podcast on Audible, but the most surprising is this – there are more astronauts in the world than there are master sommeliers.
Right. So. I went to see Cats the musical in Sydney, and within minutes I was ready to buy a tail, sign up for night school at the Jellicle Academy, and start singing my feelings in full leotard.
Oh my giddy goodness, if you’ve ever wanted to be whisked off to the south of France without having to wrestle your passport out of the drawer or explain your skincare liquids to airport security, may I humbly suggest you pop into L’Heritage at Chowder Bay instead?
