Sandi Sieger’s guide to what’s hot and happy(ning) this week. Eat, drink, buy, try, visit, read, be merry.
EAT: All-You-Can-Eat Vegan Night At Fitzroy North’s Horn Please
Fitzroy North favourite Horn Please has introduced a $20 all-you-can-eat vegan night until the end of summer – from 6pm every Sunday, diners are invited to enjoy a weekly vegan feast to their heart’s content, which includes a variety of six vegan curries, rice and vegan naan.
Not your typical Indian joint, Horn Please boasts a self-serve beer fridge and an ever-changing menu. Head in between 6-9pm every Sunday and $20 per person will get you a variety of six vegan curries, rice and vegan naan.
Horn Please, 167 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North.
DRINK: Dean & Monroe Prosecco From The King Valley
If you love sparkling white wine, then you’ll love the sweet fresh taste of Dean & Monroe Prosecco. Produced in the King Valley, the home of Australian Prosecco, this new celebratory fizz has been crafted to inspire fashion lovers to enjoy a relaxed drink in Aussie style.
Exclusive to BWS stores, this Australian Prosecco ticks all the boxes of taste and affordability at just $18 a bottle. Featuring delicate notes of mouth-watering melon and white peach, Dean & Monroe Prosecco tastes great with a cheese platter, crackers, dried fruit, seafood and chips, making it a fantastic accompaniment for canapés such as smoked salmon and oysters.
The eye-catching design of the ‘Creature Clash’ animal label was inspired by the current fashion trend for mixing and matching different animal prints and is the first in the Dean & Monroe Style Series.
Exclusive to BWS stores, Dean & Monroe Prosecco is ready to enjoy now. Visit www.bws.com.au for further information.
BUY: Zoku’s Innovative, Plastic Free, Reusable Food Containers
The creative geniuses at Zoku have expanded their ever-growing product range to now include neat food containers, reusable pocket straws and water bottles.
The next generation range of food and drink storage is perfect for busy families on-the-go that like to stay organised. Each item comes in a variety of bright colours that make carrying Zoku even more enjoyable.
Favourites of mine include the Neat Stack Food Jars – they are so handy. Featuring watertight latching lids to avoid nasty leaks, reusable freezer packs to keep food fresh and colour coded soft touch bands that protect fingers against hot food. They align together for easy storage.
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TRY: Australia’s Own Aperitivo, SOFI Spritz
Australia’s favourite aperitivo SOFI Spritz, has released their first-ever Summer Series across the country with a limited-edition Wild Berries and Pomegranate all-natural cocktail can. The Italian inspired cocktail is an Aussie twist on The Tintoretto, a holiday favourite, traditionally made with Prosecco and pomegranate juice and described as the nephew of the much-loved Bellini.
SOFI’s twist is made with premium Australian wine, seasonal wild berries, crisp pomegranate and sparkling water, with a bitter-sweet finish to liven your taste buds this summer. Best served with fresh berries or a wedge of lime for the ultimate refreshment.
The new cans are ideal for laid back sunny afternoons and entertaining with friends and family this holiday season. The 250ml 4 pack cans can be enjoyed anywhere; think long lunches, backyard barbeques, picnics and balmy nights, best served in the sunshine or while the sun goes down.
The SOFI Summer Series cans are available exclusively with Coles; in Liquorland, First Choice Liquor Market and Vintage Cellars stores. But there’s one catch, they’re only available while stock lasts.
Born in Bondi just six years ago, SOFI Spritz is 100% Australian owned, using only natural ingredients, with no added sugar.
VISIT: Fever-Tree’s G&T Gardens
Fever-Tree, the award-winning premium mixer brand, is celebrating alfresco drinking this summer, bringing pop-up Gin & Tonic Gardens to some of the best outdoor drinking spots around Australia.
The pop-up Gin & Tonic Gardens will provide gin lovers with the opportunity to enjoy their favourite gins with Fever-Tree’s variety of tonics and explore the endless possibilities that the world of gin and tonic offers.
Finding the perfect pairing will be made simple for the curious, with an easy-to-follow guide found in the botanical-inspired Fever-Tree gin and tonic pairing menus and with select venues offering DIY garnish stations so that consumers can experiment with different botanicals and discover their ultimate G&T flavour combination.
Fever-Tree is making it easy for consumers to discover the best outdoor G&T Gardens near them with an interactive map on their website, a platform where G&T lovers can find their local sunspot by simply entering their postcode.
Fever-Tree G&T Gardens will be popping up at iconic pubs and venues across Australia throughout summer.
READ: Institute of Fantastical Inventions II: Magnetic Attraction by Dave Leys
Want to be a champion sprinter but you’re too slow? Easy – the IFI can make you an extra leg. Perhaps you always feel the cold but the being restricted by jumpers and coats? Simple – the IFI can grow bear’s fur all over your body. No fantasy is out of bounds for the team at the IFI.
After a long and boring midsummer holiday, the IFI Chief Technical Officer Leo McGuffin is desperate to get back to devising incredible inventions. However, when his colleague Dr Andrea Allsop returns from an expedition to the Amazon rainforest she introduces young and ambitious scientiest Isabella Santo to the institute and Leo is suddenly under pressure to perform like never before.
Leo and his boy-genius assistant, Edward, are put to the test when the chaotic Simpsons arrive seeking ‘harmony’ in their family life. How can Leo discover the secret to harmony between people when he can’t even express his feelings for his favourite colleague, Dr Andrea Allsop? And what is about Isabella Santo that doesn’t seem quite right?
Institute of Fantastical Inventions II: Magnetic Attraction, New Holland Publishers, RRP $14.99 available from all good book retailers or online at www.newhollandpublishers.com.
