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Regional Australia's Indie Food and Drink Scene
Venture past the Instagram clichés and you’ll find something much juicier simmering away in the regions. There is a grassroots food and drink culture quietly, gloriously redefining what it means to eat and drink well. Forget the cities. The real culinary revolution is happening in the bush, and it’s packing more flavour than your favourite wine bar in Fitzroy

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Nine Circles Distillery
But I'll be darned if they are not making a quality drop here. Each of their gins pictured are medal winners, and for a small business, they are going great guns. This is also a labour of love and legacy for their kids.

The Scoffers
Apr 122 min read
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Firedoor Sydney
Firedoor is not a restaurant. It’s a temple of flame, a shrine to smoke, a cult where everything, including your sense of time, is slowly roasted over sustainably sourced hardwood.

The Scoffers
Apr 122 min read
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The Park Hyatt Sydney
Nestled on the edge of Circular Quay, the Park Hyatt Sydney offers a flawless blend of modern elegance and breathtaking vistas

Sleepy Scoffers
Apr 73 min read
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Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford.
We checked out the bar menu for lunch and disappointed seems to over egg it but we were, well, rather dissatisfied.

The Scoffers
Apr 42 min read
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No 32. Tarporley, Cheshire. England
A 200 year old former Midland Bank building has been beautifully renovated into stunning, contemporary rooms with a large and popular...

Sleepy Scoffers
Feb 25, 20222 min read
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Siffredi's Spaghetti Bar, Teneriffe, Qld.
Super talented chef Ollie Hansford, formerly of Stokehouse Q in Southbank, combined his redundancy with that of two of his workmates in...

The Scoffers
Dec 21, 20212 min read
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Champagne Canard Duchene Millesime 2012
There are hundreds of glasses of sparkling gone past these old lips. From cheap nasty fizzy muck we could barely afford as teenagers in a...

The Scoffers
Sep 8, 20212 min read
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Dan and Steph's Hervey Bay
Hervey Bay is a hidden gem. The gateway to the seasonal whale playground and Fraser Island and with stunning beaches to the north and the...

The Scoffers
Sep 8, 20212 min read
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This aint no Ugly Duckling
Just as the sunshine comes after the rain, so too does a good wine bar experience follow a rather ordinary one. With aging bones and...

The Scoffers
Sep 7, 20212 min read
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Lagavulin 16YO Single Malt
Lagavulin distillery - Islay - Scotland Known widely in the whisky community by a single statement: The King. A dram of this amber liquid...

Whiskey Scoffer
Sep 3, 20211 min read
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Skip to my Lucy Liu
From the first day they flung open the doors and invited us down the brightly lit neon red hallway from the cobblestones of Melbourne's...

The Scoffers
Sep 3, 20212 min read
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Mövenpick Hotel Melbourne
You'd wonder about the logic of opening a hotel in the middle of a global pandemic, when travel is off the cards for so many, borders are...

Sleepy Scoffers
Sep 3, 20212 min read
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The Forty Spotted Gin(bar)
Every city needs a good gin bar. Melbourne boasts a number of them, including the iconic Gin Palace Brisbane has a slew of them, with...

The Scoffers
Sep 1, 20211 min read
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Stradbroke Island Beach Hotel
A mix of apartments, studios and hotel rooms, the Stradbroke Island Hotel is part of a complex combining pub, restaurant, apartments,...

Sleepy Scoffers
Sep 1, 20212 min read
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