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Restaurateur Liam Tomlin on the industry ‘post’-pandemic and his latest venture, The Bailey in Cape Town

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Advertisement Soups have done a pivot, which isn’t easy to do when you’re a soup. They used to be a first course, after which you ate a main course. In gentlemen’s clubs and on ocean liners, the entrée was always a soup. In restaurants, there was always a delicate, refined, minted pea veloute or a creamy vichyssoise of potato and leeks, served in shot glasses or demitasse cups. Illustration by Simon Letch. Credit: These were show-off soups, sipping soups, not stop-you-in-your-tracks soups. At his 1980s restaurant Fleurie in Toorak, chef Iain Hewitson would appear at your table clutchi...

Oyster saloons, pub Thai and white wine in the sun: 190 years of Sydney dining We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size The Herald had already been around a few decades when Athanassio Comino arrived from the Greek island of Kythera and opened one of Sydney’s first fish and chip shops (or oyster saloons) in 1879. “That was before our time ... just,” jokes Jill Dupleix, who along with fellow food writer husband Terry Durack has chronicled Sydney’s dining scene for the best part of the past 30 years. Terr...

Four new eateries that are livening up the Cape food scene Gutsy local cooks are bucking the trend by reinventing restaurants in a pandemic. Here are some well worth checking out in Cape Town and the Winelands 18 February 2021 - 09:12 By Richard Holmes Caffè Milano is one of the dining options at Local, a large communal eating and retail space in Cape Town's Heritage Square. Image: Supplied via Wanted After the past 11 months of lockdowns and booze bans, restaurateurs could be forgiven for tying up their knife rolls for good. But chefs are nothing if not a hard...