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RNZ News
4 days ago
- Business
- RNZ News
The Christchurch bar named best in Australasia
This week Christchurch's 'Cellar Door' was named Australasia's best wine bar, by 'World of Fine Wine Magazine'. Whie that's great news, in even better news it means the bar goes on to represent the region in the world finals later this year. Owner Tim Ogle chats to Jesse. Photo: Supplied - Cellar Door
Daily Mail
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE The 'wine bar video' everyone in Melbourne is talking about: Footy star and woman hit back at snarky footage blazing through WhatsApp group chats
This is the snarky video that has been the talk of Melbourne for the past week. Secretly recorded by diners at Armadale wine bar Toorak Cellars last Friday, the footage allegedly shows an unidentified woman walking through the swanky venue, followed about 20 seconds later by a former AFL footballer.
The Sun
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Axed BBC star Wynne Evans reveals ‘fabulous' new business venture in hometown after split from fiancée
AXED BBC star Wynne Evans is opening a wine bar and restaurant in his hometown. He promises 'MasterChef dishes' after winning the celebrity version in 2023. 1 The Go Compare ads singer, 53, has also pledged a 'fabulous warm welcome' at the 'Welsh House by Wynne' in Carmarthen, West Wales. His business venture comes after he split with fiancée Liz Brookes. A source said: 'They've decided to have temporary voluntary time apart. 'He's opening a restaurant focusing on Welsh food to distract from the Liz separation. 'He paid the Welsh House to take over their existing space. 'It's a prime location in the centre of Carmarthen. 'He is trying to capitalise on his MasterChef win apparently.' Announcing his restaurant plan on social media, he said: 'Hello, Wynne here. "This is my hometown of Carmarthen. 'It is ever-changing and one thing that is changing is the Welsh House. Watch Wynne Evans' FULL apology video backstage at Strictly after they ordered him to cut it short 'It's going to become the Welsh House by Wynne. 'I promise you it will have MasterChef dishes on the menu, it's going to have a fabulous warm welcome and I want you to come and see me, OK? "It's going to be the home of the radio show too. 'So I'll see you soon. I'd better get cooking.' Wynne started his own radio show following his BBC axing for making a crude remark on the Strictly Live Tour launch event. He was dropped from the tour and his BBC Wales radio show was canned. Bosses then axed his travelogue with pal Joanna Page, All At Sea, after just one season. Wynne was also embroiled in a ' gropegate ' scandal when he appeared to place an unsolicited hand on the stomach of pro partner Katya Jones in last year's Strictly. He proposed to company boss Liz in Morocco earlier this year. He was previously married to wife of seven years, Tanwen, with whom he has two kids.
The Guardian
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Marjorie's, London W1: ‘Original, and truly, madly good' – restaurant review
Some new openings just sound unappetising on paper. Take the cave à manger Marjorie's in Soho, a brand new, Parisian-inspired wine bar serving small plates in London W1. 'Oh God,' I said on learning that its proprietors are Michael Searle and Josh Anderson. 'Never heard of 'em.' Sorry to quibble, especially seeing as this seems to be their first hospitality venture, and I am well aware that eating out for a living is a huge jolly, but eating in wine bars? Well, I am not a fan: too noisy, too boisterous, too give-me-my-bloody-dinner generally – not to mention too many drunken elbows in your toastie de fromage while a sommelier bores on about beaujolais nouveau. Also, Marjorie's is alarmingly close to Carnaby Street, the natural habitat of the disappointed diner. The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. So I set off down Foubert's Place, muttering to myself that at least I'm not heading for the nearby Kingly Court food hub that brims with dining options, each of them more impersonal and oversubscribed than the next. Back in the noughties, Carnaby Street still gave a slight nod to its Swinging Sixties roots, with a few remaining independent shops selling goth gear, pantaloons and bongs. Today, however, it is a shiny row of sleek international flagship stores, with the wondrous, olde worlde Liberty at one end, clinging on for dear life, the poor love, before she is inevitably turned into a Lululemon. Anyway, it turns out that it is for all these reasons that we should actually be grateful for Marjorie's, because, yet again and with no fear of this letting up any time soon, it also turns out that I am an absolute idiot. Marjorie's may look like a wine bar, but Searle and Anderson have opened something tiny, brave, bespoke and appealingly odd. Oh, and delicious, too, because the duo have tempted Giacomo Peretti, formerly of Le Gavroche, to cook for them. He has also worked at the crowdpleaser Temper, the wholly underrated Firebird and the dependably brilliant the Culpeper, and if you head down to the basement, where there are more tables, you'll be able to watch him weave his magic. Snaring Peretti to do wine bar snacks and letting his imagination fly is a stroke of genius, because now you have a brilliant chef serving gooey chicken liver 'rocher' – think rich, nutty, nibblable savoury Ferrero Rocher – pretty little yummy crab tartelettes made all the merrier by the addition of kumquat and a delicate and rather bizarre lamb tartare dotted with spring vegetables, goat's cheese and a tiny fresh strawberry. Surprise! This is actually, and quite unexpectedly, a restaurant with serious food; in fact, it might well be the most earnest, accomplished, imaginative food being served in this square mile right now. Yes, you could play safe, grab a space at the long bar upstairs, order from the exclusively French wine list and feast only on a selection of La Fromagerie cheese and rustic pain served with a shedload of salted French butter, perhaps with some saucisson with cornichons on the side. But don't do that: Peretti's larger and admittedly stranger-sounding dishes are well worth the risk. There's a bowl of escargots with seaweed in a silky pinewood cream and a soft, delicate salad of good, mixed green leaves with a sweet, citrussy, orange blossom vinaigrette. Original, perhaps offputting to some, but truly, madly good. Two other standouts were a stinky, slightly warm piece of runny brie de Meaux served with lush fresh apricot – outstanding – and some proper French soul food: poached chicken on white rice made decadent with brown butter. This was a rhapsody of classy, beige carbs, and I scraped at the bowl like a sad labrador released from her kibble diet. Slices of tempura courgette, almost like cigars to look at, came dotted with trout roe and rouille, and were equally weird and wonderful. The dessert list offered a millefeuille with crème diplomate and strawberries, but my eyes had already been greedily drawn to a warm, frothy, olive oil-strewn bowl of fresh chocolate mousse topped with crunchy hazelnuts. Again, this was just heavenly. As a non-drinker, I spend little time in wine bars these days – after all, as the old saying goes: 'If you stay in the barber's long enough, you'll probably end up with a haircut' – but for Marjorie's I'm making an exception. Service is prompt, the menu intriguing and there's a sense that you're in on a secret that no one else knows about. Go for the vin, the gossip, a bowl of nocellara olives and some great baguette; stay for a dinner that's currently one of the best in London. It's really worth going to Carnaby Street for. Courage, mes braves! Marjorie's 26 Foubert's Place, London W1; (no phone). Open all week, noon-11.30pm (Fri & Sat midnight, Sun 10pm. From about £40 a head, plus drinks and service
Yahoo
06-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
City restaurant proves 'dreams come true' with authentic wine bar and cafe plans
OWNERS of a city restaurant are a step closer to making their dreams come true with an expansion to create an authentic wine bar and café plan. Gianluca Tilotta and Gaetano Cinao, who own Benedictos on Sidbury, revealed their extension plans are a step closer after a meeting with interior designers. The Sidbury business will remain open while work is carried out to extend the store to accommodate a café, wine bar, and boutique hotel. Benedictos currently serves as an Italian restaurant and acts as the hub for Gianluca Austin-Rizzo's wine business, the Rizzo Wine Club. Gianluca Austin-Rizzo is the director of Rizzo Wine Club and manager at Benedictos. (Image: Benedictos) Mr Tilotta said: "We will open the coffee shop in the morning and the bar at night, and we hope it will offer an extra facility for our customers, so people can keep enjoying Benedictos. RECOMMENDED READING: "Our dream is to have a proper Italian coffee shop. "There is a lack of accommodation in Worcester, and a niche boutique hotel in Worcester was always something we wanted. "We never liked the building from the side, so we can now have it looking amazing at every angle. Inside Rizzo Wine Club tasting room on the second floor. (Image: Benedictos) "The last couple of years, with the success of our wine event, we want to do a wine bar. "This will offer an extra service to our customers." The Sidbury business bought a section of King Street Car Park from Worcester City Council to make way for the extension. The extension will also house an extended kitchen area, an accessible toilet and four guest rooms on the first floor. PLAN: An artist's impression of the proposed extension at Benedictos in Sidbury, Worcester (Image: Lett + Sweetland Architects) Two parking spaces will be permanently lost and ticket machines and signs will need to be relocated. The new wine bar will be an extension of the popular Rizzo Wine Club, offering wines that are not often seen in the city. Mr Austin-Rizzo, director of the Rizzo Wine Club and manager at Benedictos, said his club is currently run from a wine tasting room on the second floor of the restaurant. Within two years, the wine club has grown to have 600 members.
