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Celebrating Ten Years

Celebrating Ten Years

As part of our Tenth Anniversary online celebrations we raided the archives to create a gallery of our past events as a tribute to everyone who contributed their love and energy to the success of our curated dining events. Thanks to everyone in the online and IRL community for your thoughtful messages, comments and posts on our recent tenth anniversary. It’s heartening to know that we have enriched so many people’s dining experiences of inner city Sydney.

 Cafe de la Fontaine

Cafe de la Fontaine

Café de la Fontaine is a French Café, Creperie, Patisserie, French Ice creamery and antique store located right in the heart of Potts Point, chosen for its vibrancy and long history as a destination of chic and elegance.

Minerva x Kings Cross Distillery

Minerva x Kings Cross Distillery

Kings Cross Distillery is located at the intersection where the once mischievous glittering half mile of Darlinghurst Road, meet the increasingly glamorous Macleay Street of Potts Point. The stripped-back brick space was formerly a speakeasy and gambling den in the 1960s, before becoming an adult bookstore named Private Book Shop and later Ecstasy Adult Bookstore in the late 1970’s. Upstairs there was the usual, shadowy, pleasures of a by-gone era befitting of the postcode 2011.

Global Grapevine

Global Grapevine

Global Grapevine was founded in 2012 by father and son duo, Robert and Heath Felton. The group’s endeavour is to bring a carefully selected portfolio of premium French, Italian and Spanish wines and champagnes, never before seen in Australia, from some of the finest vineyards in Europe, direct to the cellars of Australian restaurateurs and wine lovers.

Booty Shoes x Bistro Rex

Booty Shoes x Bistro Rex

Booty Shoes delivers stylish, seasonal collections of women’s shoes sourced from the finest international shoemakers. Their passion for shoes enables them to bring their clientele a variety of beautiful brands, styles, colours and textures each year, cleverly curated so that their customers have the key items they need for each season.

Mon Petit Chou x Penny's Cheese Shop

Mon Petit Chou x Penny's Cheese Shop

Mon Petit Chou Boutique is an established ladies fashion boutique, who recently made the move further up Macleay Street to a new and bigger location opposite the famous landmark the El Alamein Fountain. Owner/operator Robyn Mann sources most of her brands on regular trips to Europe, specialising in designer clothing.

A Date with Mabel x Small's Deli

A Date with Mabel x Small's Deli

Purveyors of fresh, made-to-order sandwiches as well as hearty salads, homely sweets and delicious coffee. Small’s Deli have a passion for quality ingredients and try to keep things as local and sustainable as possible. Designer Emily Van Loon and chef Ben Shemesh (ex-Dear Sainte Eloise) were on a summer holiday in Bologna, Italy, when they first came up with the idea of running their own sandwich shop.