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up with the latest news about restaurants in Adelaide and favourites
from other Australian and European cities. Galaxy Guides is still in
its infancy but our aim is to provide information that will satisfy
readers with a deep interest in food, wine, travel and cooking.
to subscribe to Galaxy Guides please click on the link on the main navigation — and if you are wondering why we want your mobile number, well sometimes we can get the news to our contributors before the event goes public e.g., the David Thompson Dinner in Adelaide sold out with a wait list of more than 200 before it went into the conventional press and jam packed with Galaxy Guides followers.
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current newsletter
newsletter seventeen — January 2010
Marian Clarkin sums up the Melbourne racing carnival and we suspect too much fun was had by just about everyone. We visit our favourite Adelaide pub the Wheatie, and the word is out Ann Oliver is doing her last Adelaide Festival Supper Club February 26 to March 14 at Red Ochre Restaurant
past newsletters
newsletter sixteen — October 2009
David Thompson’s new book Thai Street Food, Kaaren Palmer reviews one of the world’s hottest restaurants noma, we take a look at a revolutionary new juice extraction method and much more
newsletter fifteen — September 2009
Dr Alexandra Burridge, senior wine editor celebrates the accolades that Rockpool Bar & Grill sommelier Sophie Otton has recently received, Brent Kemble–Beech, possibly Australia’s youngest head chef — Kaaren Palmer shares her visit to the 2 Michelin star dinner with Mathias Dahlgren — Matsalen
at the Grand Hotel, Stockholm, and much much more!
newsletter fourteen — August 2009
just shucked a terrific relaxed two weeks of oysters and fizz at Jolleys Boathouse Restaurant, and we’ve been out tasting in the Barossa and Mclaren vale regions just glorious spring in the vinyards + heaps of great events to attend and a new feature hot spots tip offs from friends we trust!
newsletter thirteen — July 2009
Terrific winter tastings in Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney that are all so reasonably priced they are bound to clear away the winter blues and a round up of Bastille Day celebrations with some great fun pics from our Melbourne contributor from Sorry Grandma! Bastille Ball…what a hoot!newsletter twelve — June/July 2009
The phenomena of master chef — our weekend of cooking on the PS Marion for Rockford Wines Steam Powered Dinners — lots of food and wine events especially for Bastille Day — the start of the Australian truffle season and lots of recipes.
newsletter eleven — April/May 2009
More fabulous food, pre event information for the first Galaxy Guide event Cassoulet & Caramel. Dr Alexandra Burridge and Ann Oliver take an in–depth look at the Penfolds Grange pre-release dinners, local and national news and events.
newsletter ten — March 2009
Marian Clarkin rounds up the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival and we take a pictorial look at Ayhan Erkoc’s food. Erkoc is chef at Adelaide’s The Manse Restaurant and Bar and currently doing estage at Noma — we review NANO in it’s new location and of course fab food featuring passionfruit recipes. We review the most exquisite food fiction Nicole Mones, The Last Chinese Chef.
newsletter nine — February 2009
Vintage in full swing, great vintage events in South Australia and some cool food.
newsletter eight — January 2009
New Orleans remains one of Americas’s greatest food cities and our friends, chefs Greg and Mary Sonnier have provided a dining list for the truly food and wine obsessed. mary and Greg seem to share our consensus that chef owner and owner operated restaurants offer the best experience. We especially love Mary because she is the founding member of the save water, drink champagne club which you can join by clicking here
Their list is serious, funky and fun and totally obsessed and we can only regret that their fabulous restaurant Gabrielle’s no longer exists lost to the fury of Katrina.
go to their list
THE LOST RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS
This is shameless ’chick lit ’ and it’s pretty unlikely that any male chef (or for that matter male) is going to get into it unless they are a bit pissed (or stoned) and sentimental and/or have been recently dumped by a tough female chef in love with nothing but her food. Girls will get it, especially kick arse female chefs who make it to the top and stay there because they have earned and gained the respect of their male colleagues by being their better, tougher, stronger and……
newsletter seven — December 2008
restaurant reviewing
We listened with interest to the December 3, Radio National By Design Program in conversation a discussion between the presenter Alan Saunders and Joanna Saville, editor of the Sydney Good Food Guide about restaurant reviewing. The Radio National link above will take you to the pod cast.
Having experienced the restaurant review from all sides, the kitchen as chef/restaurateur and now most often with Galaxy Guides from the reviewers side, for what its worth these are my conclusions.
In many ways the known restaurant reviewer is far more terrifying than the unknown. Inevitably the soufflé fails to rise, the waiter forgets to order a course, the wine is corked and the sommelier forgets to taste it. Having worked for a company for many years that insisted on VIP dockets in the end I stood my ground and successfully banned them winning my case on the grounds that every customer is a VIP. Not entirely true of course! Staff (and management) usually rank customers by how often they come to a restaurant, how polite (or how much fun) they are, how much they enjoy the experience and very often by how much they tip. Big tippers invariably get the best seats and the best service and tables when there are none. read the full article
newsletter six — November 2008
more books, in fact 100 books to give a food and wine obsessed person
for Christmas and yes, we think we have found the best book in perhaps
50 years Alinea. How can anyone so young achieve so much it is just
wonderful (not to mention) utterly humbling for the generosity of the
recipes and the exquisite artistry of the presentation.
Also our cooks᾿s club program for 2009
newsletter five — October 2008
A biggie for us; Marian Clarkin interviews Ferran
Adrià for Galaxy Guides in
Melbourne the
full interview
books the most important
book this year (so far)A
day at elBulli, An insight into the ideas, methods and
creativity of Ferran Adrià
Ferran Adrià — Juli Soler — Albert Adrià Published
by Phaidon Press Ltd and much much more
newsletter
four — September 2000
mad about Melbourne and our first stage of our comprehensive Melbourne guide
newsletter three — August 2008
newsletter two — July 2008
With the help of friends in Beijing we added to our really great Shanghai guide a very good section on Beijing
newsletter one — June 2008
Our first newsletter basically explaining who we are and what we hold dear and why subscribing to our newsletter is so important for us
