Features
Champagne Lobster
When it comes to eating lobster in the Top End, you probably think of something large and bright red, flown in on ice from WA – in other words, an...
Rapid Creek Market: green mangoes
They're green but perfectly ripe, sweet but sour – or just plain sweet. It’s the season for green mangoes, before the big yellow Kensington Pride and blushing R2E2 dominate the...
Darwin Food Diary
During my 10-day workshop residency at Accomplice I cooked a lot and shared dinners with many, many people. Any chance to eat out, I took it – and looked forward...
Zach Green – chef
Zach Green has been a chef for most of his working life, but it was a personal tragedy that led him to delve deeper into food, cooking and his Aboriginal...
Coffee Cups: Choose to Reuse
Take a look at all the cafes springing up in Darwin and think about this – in 20 years, pretty much every single one of their paper take away cups...
Tropical Kitchen
Jamie Lewis leads guided tours of Darwin's Parap and Rapid Creek markets as part of Darwin Festival this month, followed by a cooking class and plenty of good conversation over...
Rapid Creek Market: spaghetti squash
Spaghetti squash appears at Rapid Creek Market throughout the Wet and Dry, but has periods of absence. It has a fairly long growing period and when it does re-appear at...
Rapid Creek Market – Green Jackfruit
Jackfruit is so prevalent in Darwin and so versatile it’s surprising it’s not more widely used, especially in its unripe form when it has the tasty, meaty texture of an...
Eat my Words – Taste and Tales of Tropical Cooks
Food combined with storytelling is an inviting concept (perhaps best not done at exactly the same time) but eating good food while being part of the story is better yet...
Warehouse to Table
Darwin's Foodbank distributed 240,000 meals last year, yet the number of people who still go hungry in the NT is sobering – one in six NT schoolchildren don’t have breakfast...
Sambal Workshop
Sambal – that fresh, hot, chilli staple of southern and Southeast Asian cooking. You might expect a sambal-making workshop to be strictly culinary, but that would ignore all the storied...
Rapid Creek Market – Karunika Pemarathne
For many Rapid Creek Market shoppers, Karunika Pemarathne's mouthwatering Sri Lankan hoppers are the anticipated end to a crowded Sunday Grocery shop. Toiling over four gas burners, the home-style cook...
Dîner en Blanc
Time to get your glamour on, Darwin. It’s ‘tres chic’ mass picnic meets mystery date with beauty and fine taste, at the inaugural Le Dîner en Blanc. The concept originated...
Ladies Long Lunch
Ladies of Darwin, turn on your out-of-office notifications, it's time to lunch long and raise money for a great cause. Hosted by the Rotary Club of Darwin, the 2017 Darwin...
Malak Community Dinner
Philospher Epicurus advised us to look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink. Luckily the Malak Community Dinner has all bases covered...
Review: Sweet Brew & Co. Burgers & Beats
Since opening last year, Sweet Brew in Stuart Park has become a popular local hang out. Located in a converted mechanic’s warehouse and nestled amongst furniture stores and car dealerships...
Territory Taste Festival
Take more than 40 food and wine stalls, taste testers, beer gardens and cocktail lounges and mix in master classes and demo’s with culinary experts in their fields and you’ve...
Q&A with Tejinder Singh
Four years ago, Tejinder Singh started his food van to "feed local and hungry people." Once a month, after his 12-hour shift as a taxi driver, Singh cooks up a...
The Gift of Giving
Christmas Day plays out differently for everyone – some spend it with family and friends for a day of feasting, while others wonder where they'll find their next meal. If...
Ladies who Lunch
It’s time to don the fascinator and get frocked up for a fabulous day of fashion, food and fun at this Oaks Day Ladies Luncheon! Round up your favourite lady...
