The Sebel Melbourne Docklands Cnr Aquitania Way and Marmion Place, New Quay, Docklands 3008 (03) 9641 7503 or accorhotels.com.au/hotel/sebel-melbourne-docklands Melbourne has welcomed its first Sebel Premier Apartment hotel with the opening of The Sebel Melbourne Docklands this month. The Sebel Melbourne Docklands is located in Melbourne’s NewQuay Docklands waterfront precinct among a selection of restaurants,
Riley St Garage 55 Riley St, Woolloomooloo 2011 (02) 9326 9055 or www.rileystgarage.com.au Once a full service garage, now a full service restaurant and bar, Riley St Garage has rolled up its doors for gastronomic service & repairs. The 200-seat restaurant is the vision of Brody Petersen from The Parlour Group who brought The Flying
Rose Diner & Little Rose 309 Bay St. Port Melbourne VIC (03) 9681 8550 or rosediner.com.au The old Rose & Crown pub has been re-imagined as a 50s-style diner with a diner, bar and café, serving up old favourites and comfort food on nana’s old crockery. Rose Diner goes where others dare not tread —
Hakkasan: Doha, Qatar www.hakkasan.com/doha/ Hakkasan Doha is the eighth international iteration of the Michelin-starred restaurant known for its ‘high end Cantonese cuisin in contemporary, elegant surroundings’. Woods Bagot (led by Jonathan Clarke) designed the 120 cover restaurant set within the gardens of St. Regis Doha and occupying 775sqm. The design adheres to the Hakkasan but
If you have ever experienced Moroccan dining, then you are likely to have encountered the distinctive earthenware dish, known as the Tagine. Reflecting the traditional cooking pot, the lamp shade design is made from a two part spun aluminium form. The light fitting is available in single or dual colour options. The Tajine lighting design
It was only September when Crown Perth officially entered the world, superseding the older Burswood Entertainment Complex, but what a few months it’s been. The casino floor was substantially expanded, and the opening of a plethora of restaurants and bars as part of the Crown complex has heralded a change in the hospitality landscape of
Bite Club House: George Street, Paddington NSW www.biteclubhouse.com.au/ Underground, flash, guerilla and pop-up are hot dining concepts right now, but only the cool people need know, and even they should be kept guessing at least half the time… The ‘Pop-up’ is an onomatopoeic concept. It does exactly what it sounds like it should do. It
The Apollo: 4 Macleay Street, Potts Point, Sydney, NSW (02) 8354 0888 or www.theapollo.com.au Venue entrepreneur Sam Christie, chef Jonathan Barthelmess and architect George Livissianis are an illustrious trio. They also happen to be good friends: Barthelmess has known Christie and Livissianis since they were kids, and Christie and Livissianis worked together previously on the
Chiswick: 65 Ocean Street, Woollahra, NSW (02) 8388 8688 or www.chiswickrestaurant.com.au The approach at the recently opened Chiswick in Sydney’s Woollahra, is part of the trend towards de-formalisation in dining. The first thing you might ask: “‘De-formalisation…’ is that even a word?” Fair point and sincerest apologies to the philologists amongst our readership. But
Stokehouse: Q Sidon Street, South Bank, QLD (07) 3013 0333 or www.stokehousebrisbane.com.au The Stokehouse marque migrates North, to Brisbane’s South Bank. Whatever happened to the hi-glam tack of Bris Vegas? In recent years the tropical Northern capital has fast caught up with the modern world and some would claim, has surpassed, its Southern cousins