Monday, July 16, 2012

Restaurants to Remember #14

TENGOKU SAKURAGAOKATEN 天国 桜丘店
Shibuya co-op 1F,
14-10 Sakuragaokacho
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo, 150-0031

Thursday, June 07, 2012

Restaurants to Remember #13

RESTAURANT VOLKSHAUS
Schaufferstrasse 60
8004 Zürich
SWIZTERLAND

Monday, March 12, 2012

Restaurants to Remember #12

Restaurant DUDU
Torstr. 134, 10119 Berlin
Germany

It's a bit of a blur #1

KANGA-AN TEMPLE
278 Karasuma Dori
Kuramaguchi Higashi Iru
Kita-ku, Kyoto

to reach Kanga-an, take a right out of Exit 1 of Kuramaguchi Station, then take the first right and walk 200 meters. It's on your left, the second temple on the street, with a blue sign.
www.kangaan.jp

Restaurants to Remember #11

ORI ORI
Akasaka plaza mikado Building 1F
2-14-5
Akasaka
Minato-ku
Tokyo 107-0052

Thursday, March 03, 2011

Restaurants to remember #10

RESTAURANT JOLESCH
Muskauer Straße 1 / corner of Zeughofstrasse
10997 Berlin

Monday, November 01, 2010

Restaurants to Remember #9

LE PETIT MARCHE
9, rue de Bearn
75003 Paris

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Friday, October 08, 2010

Restaurants to Remember #8

HOTEL DU NORD
102 Quai de Jammapes
75010 Paris

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Restaurants to Remember #7

IL LATINI
via dei Palchetti 6/r
Palazzo Rucellai
50123 Firenze
(+39) 055 210916

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Hip Hip Hooray

Lyn Scully is returning to Ramsay Street.

It doesn't get any better than this. Oh, it does, actually. The new Melrose Place is "All About Sydney". Bring it on!

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The campaign so far...

A few random thoughts on our federal election...

The Liberal Party strategy is to go hard on the attack ads for the first few weeks, to get their "doubts" set in people's minds. Then drop them for the race home, hoping that seed has been planted and they can simply echo Kev's positivist future cry, and try to avoid any "dirt unit/slanging match" criticism.

Kevin Rudd has made a complete balls-up of the ALP's climate change policy. I don;t know how much more me-too I can do. Or if there is anything left he can me-too on...

How about some investment in the future guys? And I don't mean a nation full of literate tradies either...

What was so wring with Medicare Gold anyway?

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Restaurants to remember # 6

LA CABRERA
Cabrera 5099
Buenos Aires
C1414BGQ

Monday, August 27, 2007

Restaurants to remember # 5

LES BRASSINS
36 rue Keyenveld
1050 Ixelles
Bruxelles

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

keywords

"union bosses"
"child sexual abuse"
"clever"
"pornography"
"impact on the family"
"the safety of our customers"

You get my drift. Keep saying them over and over, and hopefully something will seep into the national psyche. I don't understand why Julia Gillard or Kevin Rudd, or any of their team have not responded to the wall-to-wall overuse of the term "union bosses" by identifying it as a keyword the Liberals are using. Just like they are with Johnny being a "clever" politician.

I have no doubt that the sleeping issues that lie in the backgound of the recent "emergency" response to an issue that has barely changed in 11 years—alcohol abuse, child sexual abuse, the availability of pornography—are the real reason this policy was concocted, to bring these issues into the subconscious of the "mums and dads", without explicitly addressing them as "problems" for the entirety of Australian society. Surely these have been popping up in Mark Textor's focus groups, and are seen to be important issues for the "Howard battlers" and conservative new families living on the urban fringes of our capital cities.

Much the same applies to why, for example, our private "public transport" companies are focuissing so much on consumer "safety", rather than on service provision, new lines, or getting more rolling stock, um, rolling.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

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Pat, you old tart.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Lyrics I love (volume 4)

This could be the very minute / I'm aware I'm alive / All these places feel like home / With a name I'd never chosen / I can make my first steps / As a child of 25 / This is the straw, final straw in the / Roof of my mouth as I lie to you / Just because I'm sorry doesn't mean / I didn't enjoy it at the time / You're the only thing that I love / It scares me more every day / On my knees I think clearer / Goodness knows I saw it coming / Or at least I'll claim I did / But in truth I'm lost for words / What have I done it's too late for that / What have I become truth is nothing yet / A simple mistake starts the hardest time / I promise I'll do anything you ask...this time

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Restaurants to remember # 4

MONSIEUR VUONG
Alte Schönhauser Straße 46
10119 Berlin

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Restaurants to remember # 3

BAAN KANITHA
36/1 Soi 23, Sukhumvit Road
10110 Bangkok