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Review: Standard bar snacks and 'very tasty' donuts in Dessous

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Address 164 Flinders Ln Melbourne , VIC 3000 View map Opening hours Dinner Tuesday-Saturday Feature Bar, Licensed, Accepts reservations, Events Price Expensive (electricity over $40) Payment eftpos, Visa, Mastercard Phone 03 9070 4939 It’s an era of fun, umami, taking the most decadent ingredients you can find, tossing lots of fish sauce and fresh herbs in it, and then adding crunchy and flaky and a little more fun to the mix. This is the era of cream sauces, bright pickles, food made especially to be enjoyed with booze, orgies of sex on a plate. Let’s take a donut and fill it with crab; let’s cook the crap out of our vegetables so they melt and sizzle and then drizzle them with three kinds of milk. Let’s not hold back. This is the manifesto that comes to mind when dining at Dessous – Mulberry Group’s Flinders Lane venue – a plac

Review: Hotel Bellinzona's lamb shoulder is something glorious

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Address 77 Main Street Hepburn Springs , VIC 3461 View map Opening hours Dining Room: dinner, every night; The Virgin: all day menu Saturday-Sunday and holidays Feature Accept bookings, Licensed, Accommodation Price Expensive (electricity over $40) Payment eftpos, Visa, Mastercard Phone 03 5348 2271 As I sit writing this review, the rich aroma of lamb stew permeates my entire home. It’s the final treat of a night spent at the Bellinzona Hotel in Hepburn Springs, where lamb for two ($95) can easily feed four or five people. As a result, we were able to bring home more than half of the lamb shoulder that fell off the bone, put it in a pot with broth and white beans and a can of delicious tomatoes, and continue to enjoy the heart-warming goodness. our food for days afterward. At this time of year, everything about Bellinzona is war

First ride review: The new Cervelo S5 is simpler and faster - Cycling Tips

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Two days after his sponsors Jumbo-Visma’s dominance in the Tour de France and on the day Marianne Vos will wear the Tour de France Femme yellow jersey for the first time, Cervelo has finally and officially announced his new flagship special aero. racing bike, new S5. Although the entire Jumbo-Visma squad has been racing the new S5 so far this season, with both Van Aert and Vingegaard racing the green and yellow jersey to match the S5 on the Champs lysées, Cervelo has remained silent about the existence of the new frame. Today, Cervelo confirmed all the details, upgrades and adjustments to the new frame and specifications for the full four bike options. New secret Not only is Cervelo’s marketing department silent about its new bike, the bike’s engineers and designers are also making relatively low-key updates. The new S5 is a refinement of the previous iteration with a focus on making an already fast bike more user-friendly than an entirely new design. The adjustments are subtle: a d

Airline review: Premium economy for 14 hours across the Pacific

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Air Canada premium economy seats. ROUTE Flight AC34 Sydney to Vancouver AIRCRAFT Boeing 777-200LR LOYALTY SCHEME Aeroplan, with points also earned from other Star Alliance airline programs. CLASS Premium economy seat, 14K DURATION 14 hours, 30 minutes Get the latest news and updates by email straight to your inbox. CARBON EMISSIONS 2.42 tons. Air Canada provides carbon offsetting facilities for passengers in partnership with Canadian company Less Emissions (see www.less.ca) FREQUENCY Air Canada flies daily from Sydney to Vancouver. HEALTH Passengers are required to wear masks. We were given a kit containing sanitiser and spare masks, along with the amenities. Please note that some arriving passengers may be selected for a random COVID-19 test upon arrival, and will be notified by email of the procedure. CHECK At the entrance to the check-in desk there is a preliminary check of passengers’ COVID era documents – so have a printout/screenshot of your International Vaccine Certi

Book review of Cathrine Mahoney - ex-wife of Andrew Johns - in Australia

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A memoir of a ‘middle-aged’ former high-profile NRL WAG has been torn apart in a brutal review by a writer who questions why she married a man ‘with whom she has almost nothing in common’. Currently Between Husbands is a recently released memoir by Cathrine Mahoney, former wife of NRL Immortal Andrew Johns. The former entertainment publicist turned podcast host and self-proclaimed ‘over-sharer’ provides eye-opening insight into the ups and downs of 12 years with one of Australia’s biggest stars, and reveals the secrets of their high-profile split. Released by publishers Simon and Schuster, the memoir was denounced by Italian-Australian writer and singer-songwriter Antonella Gambotto-Burke in a scathing book review published in The Weekend Australian. The UK-based author doesn’t hold back what he thinks about the book which he claims is aimed at a middle-aged audience ‘preferably disgruntled wives ex-wives, and boyfriends who define themselves by their partners’. Former Sony publi

This Is It: The Strokes main Splendor set is anything but sloppy - triple j

If you believe recent overseas reports, it appears that it was the bumpy road The Strokes have taken to Splendor In The Grass that hit the spotlight on Saturday night. Earlier this month, it was hard to ignore the headlines about frontman Julian Casablancas. “worrying” “behavior and” “an insult to the crowd” at international festivals. Some even speculated if they wanted “witnessed the end of The Strokes” in TRNSMT Scotland. This sparked concerns over whether The Strokes – which have claimed to be on the verge of exploding for years – would even make it Down Under. Or maybe indulge the Splendor crowd with some weird banter, a loose cover, or something more spicy. This kind of drama is often an ingredient in era-defining band stories. But as is often the case, the rumors of their deaths were exaggerated. The Strokes are here, and in short, they sound really great. From the jump, the instantly recognizable five-part sound was as crisp as ever, showing no signs of touring wear. They

Cupra Ateca 2022 review: England Drive

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T The Cupra Ateca will soon land in Australia along with two other models to kick off the launch of the Spanish VW brand. Awareness is going to be the name of the game, which is why I found myself in the Ateca SUV on a recent holiday trip to the UK. Our British press car is the VZ3, which has almost the same specifications as the single Ateca ‘VZx’ variant offered here. Priced at $65,990 driveaway ($60,990 RRP), the Cupra Ateca costs a little more than Volkswagen’s close relative, the T-Roc R due later this year for $59,300 before on-road costs. EDITOR’S NOTE: The photos in this story are a mix of Jez’s own shots, and a selection of press shots of the latest Limited Edition models offered in the UK. 43 The two share the production of the 2.0 liter ‘EA888’ four-cylinder turbo 221kW and 400Nm plus a seven-speed automatic clutch and all-wheel drive. The Ateca has the most conservative form in the Cupra lineup, with Copper alloy wheels doing a tough yard to create so