It is quite bizarre how many restaurant websites use flash technology. It was quite clear at Restaurant08 during my panel session on the internet with chef Raymond Capaldi, Mark Armstrong from Google, Julia Topliss from Web Prophets that none of us like it (and Google has trouble finding sites with it). And we’re not the only ones. Social media commentator Laurel Papworth hates it too and finds this quote: “Flash-based web sites are quite possibly one of the most useful […]
Author: Ed
In my kitchen
Herald Sun, Citystyle Home cooks are spoiled for choice when it comes to equipping their kitchens. ED CHARLES looks at the essentials, and the tools we love to use WE’VE come a long way from cooking in a bush oven over an open fire. The question is whether all our progress has been positive, with kitchen fads changing as frequently as hemlines. Glossy food magazines and products endorsed by celebrity chefs drive our desire to clutter our kitchens. Our grandparents […]
Wine in a cool climate
Herald Sun, Citystyle There’s a new generation of discerning drinkers, writes ED CHARLES ANDY Roche had never bothered with red wine until last year. The 26-year-old fashion designer had found his niche with white wines, specifically semillons or sauvignon blanc semillons, his favourite being Evans & Tate. But last winter became an odyssey as he discovered the range of flavours of pinot noir and occasionally, the boisterous shiraz grape. “I hadn’t really had it before,” he says. That was until […]
What is good service in a restaurant?
…a waitress who had a giant spot with a head the colour of a pale yellow egg yolk. The only question was on which of us was it to burst. ‘Too much service in my opinion is practically worse than none. You don’t have any opportunity to enjoy the company of the people who you are with.’ The words of Michelle Garnaut, the former Melbourne restaurateur who launched M on the Fringe in Hong Kong in 1989 and M on […]
It’s Gordon’s fault
Created by OnePlusYou I’m surprised my score isn’t higher. Fuck it, I’ll have to try harder. Via Dipping into the blog pond
In the trenches: Waiters
INTHEBLACK > In the trenches Service is one of those funny things. Some companies care a lot about it and others don’t. But as far as the customer is concerned it can make or break a relationship. Nowhere is there a more concentrated microcosm of the good and the bad of customer service than the restaurant. You almost certainly have been exposed to it yourself. And you may have seen it on reality TV in Gordon Ramsay’s top rating Kitchen […]
Tell me your most useful and useless kitchen gadgets
Spot the crap stuff (and pic) in my status symbol kitchen.What kind of swamp do I inhabit? No, I don’t live in Elwood which is now merely stinking canals and is vulnerable to subsidence.I’m talking about the stinking, sticky slimy loathsome depths of depravity that my mind has sunk to meaning that I can’t even take a simple email on face value.My curt reply to his enquiries on the local food blogging scene no doubt left Michael Ruhlman, an opinionated […]
Nutrition gets on the menu
The Australian, Entrepreneur FOOD franchises are the fastest-growing franchises. On the league table of fastest growers, six are taking some sort of health angle on food: Sumo Salad, Big Dad’s Pies, Healthy Habits, Noodle Box, Pizza Capers and Crust Gourmet Pizza Bar. Tim Dixon, CEO of consultant Franchise Works, says the high street is so dense with food outlets that new ones need new angles. With long work hours and healthy eating becoming hot topics, they are obvious platforms for […]
13 ways for restaurants to get lucky in Google searches. Or why they must learn to love food blogs
If you haven’t noticed most people find your website or blog through Google. Yes, it may be through Yahoo! But until somebody comes up with something better Google is king. The reason why restaurants or any other small or medium sized business need to take notice of blogs is that very probably a blog will come higher up in search results than you. This is unless the Google search is for your website name alone. In reality, it may be […]