Vive le Revolutione Rose
It has started … and I am a bit excited. Vive le Revolutione Rose! I am a fan of rose, dry, savoury, fruit driven rose that is not full of sugar. Just a few days ago I joined a bunch of fabulous looking folk at the always lovely Madame Brussels in Melbourne to sample some offerings of some of the best dry, savoury rose’s from around [...]
Continue ReadingMy name is Pete Dillon and I am addicted… to bush food.
I have had an epiphany of some proportion. I am now a devotee of bush foods. This is in no small part due to the Alice Desert Festival and Wild Bushfoods events I have just attended in Alice Springs in Central Australia. It is an almost religious experience that I have had. When I have pondered and mused over past years about what typifies [...]
Continue ReadingAlice Desert Festival and Wild Bush Foods
My life is pretty rich I have to admit. Apart from having a gaggle of wonderful mates, a village as a family and a great network of acquaintances, I also get the opportunity to do what I love and love what I do. I once did a radio interview where my guest regaled a tale of the realisation that what he did was write about food and share in [...]
Continue ReadingTravelling Soldier…
I have just spent all week travelling from Melbourne, to Brisbane and then on to Adelaide to recruit restaurants to join the StreetSmart campaign for 2011 and I have had 2 very different experiences. SA – get off your butts and get involved in this program. Queensland has embraced it this year and if any state has had a tough one as [...]
Continue ReadingThe Age Good Food Guide Awards 2011
If a bomb was dropped on the National Gallery of Victoria on Monday night, there would be many a restaurant go under this morning as their chefs and front of house crew would be no longer. In what some might say was a star studded event, anyone who is anyone in the Melbourne food and wine scene ( and a few NOTB {North of the border}) gathered [...]
Continue ReadingGot to love something nice and French
Were it every day one was charmed by lovely French fellows whilst tasting fabulous wines, one would be a happy one indeed. The fabulous folk from M Chapoutier in the Rhone Valley provided tipples and tastes of the splendidness of Marsanne and Hermtiage. Alongside Chateau Tahbilk from the Nagambie Ranges in Central Victoria, my new mon ami [...]
Continue ReadingMoVida does Barcelona
So, you think you know Barcelona ’cause you have been there a couple of times, worked out how to find a Michelin starred restaurant and know how to order a couple of Moritz or Estrella beers at a bar. Your friends might event suggest that you know Barcelona well, because you know that Barcellinite guy behind the bar has a gold tooth. [...]
Continue ReadingFriday night at CNM
What is Friday night about… some potatoes, fried or dried – as long as they have seen some hot oil. And it means wine. Tonight it is Tar and Roses Pinot Grigio.
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