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Scotsman
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 Hot Tickets: Here are 18 already critically-acclaimed shows you can see this August
2 . Garry Starr: Classic Penguins If you're not comfortable with nudity, then the last place you want to be this August is in Garry Starr's sublime show 'Classic Penguins'. The premise is that he's "hell-bent on saving books from extinction by performing every Penguin Classic novel ever written". The twist? He's "mostly naked (but with flippers)". His breathtaking performance earned a string of five star reviews last year, with the segment involving a large bear one of the most stupidly clever of the Fringe. No wonder he won the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Most Outstanding Show Award. He'll be at the Udderbelly from July 30 until August 25. | Contributed
Time Out
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Photograph: Supplied/Yellow
✍️ Time Out Sydney never writes starred restaurant and bar reviews from hosted experiences – Time Out covers restaurant and bar bills, and anonymously reviews, so that readers can trust our critique. Find out more, here. Update: Potts Point 's butter-yellow plant-based restaurant – and one of Sydney's best – is under new ownership. The fine diner, which the Bentley Boys (Eleven Barrack, King Clarence, Monopole) opened in 2014, is now being run by long-time head chef Sander Nooij and his business partner Mark Hanover. But fans of the Macleay Street restaurant can rest assured that the creative, elevated, seasonal and truly beautiful dishes will remain, with the team committed to 'botanical gastronomy'. Nooij said: 'Botanical gastronomy is a culinary approach that celebrates the vibrant world of plants, herbs, and flowers. Free from animal products yet rich in flavour, we emphasise seasonality, sustainability and the extraordinary. Our goal is to create a dining experience that is not just for vegans, but for anyone who values creativity, refinement, and the beauty of nature on their plates. Free from the controversy and politics that can be part of the vegan narrative, botanical gastronomy merges elements of contemporary cuisine with a strong emphasis on botanical ingredients, showcasing their flavours, textures, and nutritional advantages,' he added. Yellow is renowned for its six-course seasonal menu celebrating heirloom vegetables from local suppliers. While what you have on the night will vary, you might enjoy things like a crisp polenta chip with a caper sauce and avocado salsa; smoked tomatoes paired with silky cashew cream and plums; an eggplant parcel with hemp ricotta and chilli crisp; and a riff on banoffee pie made with bananas from Boon Luck Farm. Whether you follow a plant-based diet or not, this feel-good restaurant is for everyone who appreciates a cracking, thoughtful meal – one that just happens to be vegan. Hell: bring your meat-lovin' mates and don't tell them. – Avril Treasure ***** It takes a kind of vision bordering on the mad to see a burnt onion as a dessert, but that is the creative genius we're dealing with from the team at Yellow. Not just a staunchly savoury veg, but a burned one at that, is ground down into a charcoal-black powder to contrast brutishly with the pretty-in-pink Frenchness of a tartine made from more leaves of sticky apple than your average Penguin Classic. This is so much more than meat-free cooking, it's abstract expressionism with fruit and veg. Brent Savage and Nick Hildebrandt's restaurant empire (Bentley, Monopole, Cirrus) had always catered to vegetarians without making a fuss, but when they devoted their Potts Point dining room to the best of the plant world, people really started to take notice. And importantly, they kept coming back for more. More of the stracciatella, a fresh cheese that's so creamy and relaxed it's basically a liquid, sprinkled with a magic banana powder made from extreme slow cooked bananas (two and a half months at 60 degrees in the skins). Add the bright tang of cumquat and it's almost a sweet, except for the fierce pull towards savoury by the gently charred, sprouting broccoli and cauliflower. The vegetables win this one, but only just. Baby corn in a can is a monstrosity; baby corn served in its charred husk, under a blanket of funky miso milk crumbs, is bringing smoky maturity to next-gen veg. A round of applause goes to the tight harmonies in a dish of nori sheets camouflaging a core of soft leek wearing the reflected richness of shaved duck yolk and parmesan's gravitas. Horseradish brings the treble, shimeji mushrooms the earthy bass, and a sweet-tart ponzu dressing makes a surprising guest appearance. We are not being facetious when we say that the baked celeriac, with all the earthy grunt and spiced char of a prime cut, trumps meat. And fried chicken is matched and in many ways bested by the juiciness, savouriness and feather-light crunch of Jerusalem artichokes in a tapioca batter, served on a rich and powerful, condensed Swiss brown and button mushroom purée. We expect vegetables to be part of a great tasting menu in Sydney, but it's rare to see them demand the spotlight like a diva hitting the high notes and refuse to relinquish their starring role. This is what makes Yellow such an extraordinary restaurant. They've seismically shifted how we frame fine dining in Sydney, and we love them for it. – Reviewed in 2018.
