Panino

Italy does not do ordinary, Italy does just about everything -including life itself- with entusiasmo, passione, amore and stile. This is especially so when it comes to food and to sharing food with family...

When We Were Kings

  Otres, stretched out on a quiet beach, forced to lie there with nothing more to do than listen to the water gently lapping onto the sandy shore, it was hell at first, I was...

Everything is coming up Rosés

  I’m calling it; Rosé wines are now officially trendy in Phnom Penh, the drink de rigueur for fashionistas, theatre goers and pretty young things. I know this, because rosé here is no longer merely a...

La Boheme – Act 2

The Composer Giacomo Puccini has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi". While his early work was rooted in traditional late-19th-century romantic Italian opera, he successfully developed his work in the 'realistic'...

La Boheme – Act 1

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On a Sour Note

    “Pisco is compounded of the shavings of cherubs’ wings, the glory of a tropical dawn, the red clouds of sunset, and the fragments of lost epics by dead masters."         -Rudyard Kipling Pisco is the key...

Pristine Perfection

  Jeffrey Grosset has long been renowned -the world over- as Australia’s greatest Riesling producer. His Riesling wines have achieved an extraordinary level of fame for a variety largely shunned by the broader, Australian commercial...

Style with Substance – Deco-dence Pt. 2

  Deco restaurant is situated in a large house built sometime in the early 1960’s, very modern for its time and built in the Corbusian modernist and modern Bauhaus style introduced to the country by...