Located so close to the city with the ambience of being so far. Residential. Wide leafy steets. Cul-de-sacs. The Golden Triangle. Moments to Danks Street. Plentiful green space and sporting grounds. Once known as Australia’s largest industrial district. Now known as an affordable city enclave. Families. Students. Young professionals. Alexandria.
245 Wilson St
CarriageWorks: cultural hub, dining wasteland. Seeing a show at the converted railway workshop complex has hitherto involved rooting around in Newtown for snacks first. But now there’s this new canteen, smack bang in the middle of the action. It’s brought to you by A-grade caterers John and Peter. The whole heart of their business is quality ingredients, dealt with simply. Their catch cry is “simple, foam free, soil free, skid mark and spittle free”. And that’s what you’ll find at the...
37a Copeland St
"Bitton Gourmet in Alexandria has fabulous fresh ingredients and a kids playroom with loads of toys. Theres genuine excitement on the Kids Menu, which includes pan-fried salmon fillet with rösti potato, scrambled eggs with Vegemite toast, pasta with a specialty Bitton tomato sauce and a cottage pie. This one is a real favourite with mums and bubs, they even take coffee over to the park opposite for the mums when they are relaxing with bubs."...
Simon Johnson Headquarters, 24A Ralph St
Talk Eat Drink classes have been recently relocated to a custom-built demonstration kitchen in Simon Johnsons Providores Market in Alexandria. Each class is limited to 40 guests, led by culinary celebs including Christine Manfield, Manu Feildel and Justin North....
474 Gardeners Rd
The BSB juggernaut rolls on – outlets here, in Surry Hills and Marrickville, a cookbook on shelves and lines of slavering fans queuing out the door for specialty spelt sourdough and magnificent mellow coffee. There’s little better than snagging a couple of pork-and-fennel or lamb-and-harissa sausage rolls, a loaf of sourdough, maybe some of their chorizo and thyme-studded hot bread, and a tray of assorted sweetcakes (we love the sugar scrolls, the pain au chocolat and the teeny ginger brulee...
2012-01-15 12:00:00 - 2012-02-19 12:00:00
CarriageWorks 245 Wilson St
It is the most infamous of all the ancients – the story of the deposed king whose sons were slaughtered and served to him by his brother in a feast.
The Hayloft Project stunned audiences with this brilliant re-imagining at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre in 2010. Their starting point: THESE MYTHS ARE REAL. The action of the show, much like our lives, takes place in the banalities and ordinarinesses between atrocities.
Featuring three extraordinary performances, the result is truly groundbreaking...
2011-12-08 12:00:00 - 2012-03-14 12:00:00
CarriageWorks 245 Wilson St
Inspired by his Wiradjuri tradition, the circus, visual and pop culture, Australias eclectic Brook Andrew assembles a cavalcade of hand-painted caravans in the huge industrial foyer of Carriageworks. For two decades Andrew has been creating multi-media monuments, playfully seducing audiences into new ways of seeing issues of race, consumerism and history. Enter each customised caravan of Travelling Colony to be immersed in the perspectives and lives of personalities central to...