The service is slow, but the coffee and the food are good. They even have fresh local marron on their menu. Our late breakfast was almost perfect. Had my poached eggs been soft, they would have oozed the perfect dressing for my charred bread, crispy proscuito, and the sharp-tasting parmesan flakes. Zorba’s poached eggs were soft and runny and he ate up every mouthful of his classic big breakfast. The tables outside under the veranda over looking a park with an old-fashioned shiny steam train parked under the trees sets the scene for the archetypal Australian country-town cafe.
Road trip! Destination Pemberton, WA
Coffee experiment
This morning, I experimented to see which method would make the best coffee. Using WA’s Yahava coffee, I prepared it three ways: 1. The Vietnamese way using a drip cup I bought from Vietnam recently 2. Plunger 3. Italian cafeteria,…
Hanoi: Best margarita in the world at Don’s
In the upmarket neighbourhood of Hanoi’s West Lake district is Don’s, a top-50 restaurant on the San Pellegrino Asia List. Over four floors overlooking the lake, Don’s is owned by the charming Canadian chef Don Berger, who has lived in…
Break it up
That’s how I’m going to roll from here on. When it comes to travel, I’m breaking it up. No longer am I a 20-something year old with boundless energy and little need for beauty sleep. I want (and deserve!) a…
Woot! Cheap fares to China and beyond
China Southern Airlines has introduced new A330-200 aircraft onto Australian routes with the airline’s A330-223 touching down in Perth for the first time yesterday. It’s great that another full service airline can now give some of the other big players…