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Bartenders from seven top Sydney bars have created Untold Spiced Rum cocktails that express their unique stories
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Side with Amex restaurant finder – dining with a complimentary side dish
These ones offer a little something extra, be rewarded with a complimentary side dish
If you live north of the bridge, here are a list of venues to get a free side at.
What is ‘Side with Amex’?‘Side with Amex’ is an instant rewards program by Time Out in partnership with American Express for American Express Card Members. How does ‘Side with Amex’ work?Participating American Express Venues will offer their customer a free side dish with the purchase of a main meal, when paid for using an American Express Card. How do I find out about participating venues?Participating venues will be included on each city’s Time Out website. This list will be updated constantly so keep checking back to find more participating venues in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. When does Side With Amex end?Side With Amex is a 2017/18 initiative split into two phases:• Phase 1: 01 November 2017- 31 August 2018 Is there any limit to the offer?Each venue has committed to supplying the first 200 customers, paying with an American Express Card, with a free side dish per bill. A customer may only redeem one free side with each payment, when purchasing a main meal. How do I take advantage of ‘Side with Amex’?Whether you're an American Express Card Member, or an American Express accepting Merchant, you can read more about 'Side with Amex' below.
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Sydney's eastern suburbs boast many great restaurants, but these ones offer a little something extra. Pay with your American Express® Card and you'll be rewarded with a complimentary side for your first main meal ordered. Want to know more? Check out our Side with Amex FAQ. For more great offerings, return to the American Express casual dining guide.
Untold Rum was born of a passionate collaboration between leading Australian bartenders and spirits experts. A range of subtle spices is added to a unique blend of smooth, two- and three-year aged golden rums; the result is a distinctive, full-bodied spiced rum that is made to mix. Untold Rum’s makers believe that our experiences are what enrich and define us. So we at Time Out invited seven Sydney bartenders to tell us a story about the life of their bar and to invent an Untold Rum cocktail that conveys the essence of that story. Sydney’s bartenders have lived through interesting times over the last four years, and they understand that life is a journey. Inspired by Untold Rum, here’s what they came up with. You can enjoy their Untold cocktails and share stories with their makers from July 10 to August 21, 2018. To hear more about the stories and watch filmed interviews with the bartenders, check out @UntoldRum. THE COCKTAILS Jacoby's | The Baxter Inn | Eau de Vie | Earl's Juke Joint | Bulletin Place | This Must Be the Place | Shady Pines Saloon
“If I can’t have too many truffles,” the French writer Colette was famous for saying, “then I’ll go without truffles.” And there are plenty of fans who agree with the author of Gigi that the subterranean Ascomycete fungus is the height of gastronomic pleasure. To celebrate truffles coming into season here in Australia, The Star is offering unique Truffle Menus at Sokyo, Balla and Black Bar & Grill, available from June 12 to August 5. The three restaurants will be using truffles from Manjimup (WA), Terra Preta Organic Truffles (NSW) and Tasmanian Truffles (Tas). Featuring in everything from tagliatelle to ice-cream, the delicious, headily aromatic morsels add something truly special to seasonal menus. If you’re a truffle aficionado on a par with Colette, then you’ll be pleased to hear that each restaurant is also holding a one-night-only premium Truffle Dinner with sommelier-picked matching wines. Truffles at Sokyo Chef Chase Kojima has added three truffle creations to his menu. Chase Toro Toro ($22) brings bluefin tuna, sea urchin and black truffle together in a perfect sushi storm. Spanner crab chawanmushi, parmesan and truffle ($36) is a Japanese-style egg custard with a flavour blast of truffles and parmesan. And for the princely sum of $250, Wagyu Scotch fillet is cooked over Japanese binchotan charcoal and served with delicately balanced karashi and lime butter, with shaved fresh truffles taking this melt-in-the-mouth experience to another dimension. These taste
A marathon music festival is taking over City Recital Hall next month. Extended Play will bring a big line-up of new music to City Recital Hall for 12 hours of continuous music featuring artists from every genre imaginable – and then some. From noon on Saturday August 25 until midnight, City Recital Hall will be buzzing with 20 local and international artists, transforming the venue into an immersive experience in sonic exploration. Headlining the explorative festival are the Bang on a Can All-Stars, who are flying in from New York to share their dynamic brand of classical-jazz-experimental-world-rock with Sydneysiders. We’re also keen to hear the closing act, a 90-minute DJ set from the Stereogamous duo (that’s Paul Mac and Jonny Seymour). Can’t get enough of the soul-restoring sounds of Philip Glass? Extended Play will feature songs from the composer, known for his countless compositions and film scores (he even won a Golden Globe for The Truman Show). There will also be works by established Australian writers like Elena Kats-Chernin and Peter Sculthorpe, plus the chance to hear songs from our top new talents. Everything from classical and jazz to rock and world music will feature at Extended Play, with the uniting factor being that everything you hear is cutting edge, innovative and nothing like what you hear on the average radio channel. There’s nothing fuddy or duddy about the festival so prepare to leave your preconceived notions of music etiquette at the door and
You’ve been nose to the grindstone all year, and it’s already mid-winter. Maybe your boss doesn’t believe you’ve earned a special treat, but Time Out does, and so do our friends at The Star. That’s why they’re giving away a premium staycation to one lucky winner and their companion. The prize includes: One night’s accommodation for two at The Darling (which is incidentally Sydney’s only five-star boutique hotel, as rated by independent luxury hotel rating system Forbes) Breakfast for two at Harvest Buffet Lunch for two at Black Bar & Grill Dinner for two at Sokyo A big $500 credit at The Darling Spa That’s right – a night in the lap of luxury, three fantastic meals in top-notch restaurants, and an amazing massage, facial, body wrap or manicure. Everything you need to feel special again and ready to face down the pointy end of the year. To win this excellent prize, head to The Star's competition page, and hey – good luck.
It’s not every day you see a play written entirely in rhyming verse. When Molière was working in the 17th century, almost every playwright was using rhymes to show their quick wit and extensive vocabularies. But although Lin-Manuel Miranda made rhyming couplets cool again with his hit musical Hamilton, the comedic potential of a killer couplet has been largely forgotten in the theatre. (So has the joy of a great dirty rhyme; although most still remember that “there once was a man from Nantucket”.) Wentworth star Danielle Cormack is about to dive headfirst into a world of rhyme as she makes her return to theatre after three years with a new adaptation of Molière’s The Misanthrope at the Sydney Opera House from August 28. “I’ve been doing a lot of screen work so I was really excited to get back on stage,” she says. “And what better way than to throw myself into the belly of the beast doing a Molière?” Not that this production will be much like what Molière might have envisioned. The play retains Molière’s plot – the central character Alceste finds himself in serious trouble as he shuns high society’s hypocritical niceties – but has been translated and updated into modern Australian English by Justin Fleming. It’ll sound just like the conversations you might hear walking up to the Opera House; apart from the fact that everything rhymes. Helpmann Award winning director Lee Lewis has worked on two of Fleming’s Molière adaptations before, which have proven hugely popular with a
AtlasTrend believe that investing should be affordable and easy to understand. Providing a seamless way to invest in global companies, AtlasTrend offer up useable information and tools for entry level investors ready to enter the market. They have four key managed funds (which they call “trends”) for you to invest in – big data (companies like Apple and Google), online shopping (companies like Fed-Ex and Amazon), clean disruption (green energy companies), and "splurging Baby Boomers"*. Over the last 12 months, the big data trend has been a standout performer for AtlasTrend. They're all about making it affordable for you to toss your hat into the ring starting at just $100 a month, and you can opt-out and withdraw whenever you want. AtlasTrend offer seven-day membership trials to help you understand the secrets to investing. Your membership offers you tips and tricks from the AtlasTrend team and insights into the stock market in easy-to-read language. You can also read through analysis and the reasoning behind investment strategy decisions, giving you invaluable insight to company decisions. No credit card is required to sign-up for the trial period and you automatically become a member if you start investing. You can also opt-out and withdraw at anytime, making the AtlasTrend trial a nifty way to dip your toes in to the world of investing without fear of being locked in. To celebrate the launch of the seven-day member trial, AtlasTrend are giving everyone the chance to wi
What's better than a main meal? One with sides. Pay with your American Express® Card at these leading restaurants, and you'll be rewarded with a complimentary side for your first main meal ordered. Want to know more? Check out our Side with Amex FAQ. For more great offerings, return to the American Express casual dining guide.
Vegan cheese. It’s one of the many oxymoronic snack stars on the menu at Alibi, the new, wholly veggie bar and restaurant in Woolloomooloo. You’ll find it inside the Ovolo Hotel – and it’s a brave move for a boutique hotel to make its food and beverage offering nut-and-plant-based (or perhaps an indication of how far we’ve come). Whether you’re totally animal-free, lactose intolerant, gluten sensitive or just down to try something different, this platter is creative and moreish. In place of the usual fromage slices you’ll find a trio of cashew-based cheeses – a cheddar, blue and truffle. While each has a similar pastelike texture that doesn’t quite mimic its oozy dairy counterpart, the truffle number is a standout, with earthy notes shining through. These cheeses – as well as the ‘cream’ and ‘ricotta’– are made in-house at Alibi. The menu was devised by Californian chef Matthew Kenney, who has been on the meat-free bandwagon for well over 15 years and has his own vegan culinary institute, alongside restaurants in New York, LA, London and Miami. What’s on the plate isn’t just trend-driven, but thoughtful, fun and interesting. A cold cacio e pepe uses not spaghetti but chewy kelp noodles coated in a creamy, peppery almond sauce; while handheld tacos use smoky pulled mushrooms, a bright, herb-fuelled salsa and a pepita-blended cream to nail the handheld Mexican staple. The steamed bun is the only thing that doesn’t quite hit the mark – it’s stodgier than the usually light and
After six months of refurbishments and renovations Glebe's Toxteth Hotel is pouring beers and dishing swish new meals. Sienna’s Bistro menu has gotten a total redux, so that along with counter classics, there's a new host of plant-based options. Try a Glebe Island Hot Bowl, with lemon myrtle roasted cauliflower, sautéed mushrooms, spinach, and Korean chilli sauce; or if you're after meat order up low and slow cooked spice-rubbed beef brisket. As always, the pub's weekly specials menu will be back, dishing out pub favourites for a steal. All meals can be enjoyed in the outdoor courtyard. On Sundays there will be a banquet style roast lunch or dinner to enjoy for $35pp called 'Host a Roast', and every Saturday join 'Sienna's Brunch Club', at $60pp with a drink on arrival or $70pp for bottomless – both can be booked from Sat Aug 25. The Toxteth have also changed up the drinks menu to include cocktail carafes (perfect for sharing in the sunny courtyard), plenty of beers (including local craft favourites) and mocktails (ideal for drivers and non-drinkers alike). You can also head there for live music, themed trivia, craft brew specials and musical bingo all throughout the week. Find out more about the new look Toxteth today.
