Pictures from lunch at District Dining with the crew. The food there is excellent – best I’ve had in Sydney a while. Service was impeccable and the desserts are tops. I love finding awesome new places to blog about!
Highly recommended: the crispy school prawns with lime mayonnaise, my personal fave – steak tartare, duck confit, the parmesan gnocchi, and the chocolate mousse was divineeee…
Hope you’re having a lovely weekend!
District Dining 17 Randle Street, Surry Hills Sydney NSW 2010
Here are some pictures I took at The Outpost Project on Cockatoo Island. It’s one of the biggest urban art exhibitions I’ve been to and the abandoned warehouses and factory spaces on Cockatoo Island is the perfect place for it! The most exciting (for me) was an exhibition of a private collection called Oi You!, featuring 23 pieces by Banksy along with a few other street artists such as Swoon, Faile, David Choe and it’s the first time this collection is shown outside of New Zealand. I also enjoyed watching the live graffiti and the evolving art projects that included public contributions of chalk art on the concrete pavements, a recycling art project and Paste Modernism which is the largest collection of paste ups I’ve ever seen in one place!
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Last Sunday at the preview of the new Ikea Tempe! So lovely of Dr G and Craig to have us come and shop before the official opening this coming Thursday. Craig’s been working hard for the last 7 months or so and it’s nice to see it finally complete. Also, no crowds and no queues. We came home with some bargains (they gave us a discount) and somehow W spent more than I did. I’m just happy I have more space for my shoes! The place is friggin’ HUGE. Something like 2.5km just walking through two floors.
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Discovered this amazing shop on the weekend while wandering around Surry Hills. It’s a big space on Riley St that is filled with all sorts of second hand furniture but as I walked in the room revealed a huge space filled with all kinds of new and secondhand clothing! Owner Dawn was kind enough to let me take pictures and here are some of the stuff I found. She ships a lot of stuff over from the UK so there is a whole rack’s worth of past season (but new) Kate Moss for Topshop and a quick browse revealed she has some of the dresses that sold out at launch, including the iconic dobby dress..
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Last weekend we had a wander around the city to check out a few things – Art and About Laneways art projects, the 3D projection on the QVB dome (also part of Art and About) and a late afternoon stopover at one of my favourite pâtisseries in the city. I’m wearing a top I just got from Robert Rodriguez, a designer I’ve just discovered, which is more gray than black but I really love the cutout detail at the back.
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