Sandi Sieger’s guide to what’s hot and happy(ning) this week. Eat, drink, buy, try, visit, read, be merry.
EAT: Blitz Bar
Blitz Bar’s Chapel Street store has recently opened and is delivering customers everything they’ve come to know and love from Blitz Bar: self-serve açaí on tap with over 30 tasty DIY toppings to choose from—including homemade granolas, peanut butter, and chia & raspberry jam—along with a thirst-quenching smoothie bar menu, quality coffee, and an abundance of health foods and nutritious snacks.
Blitz Bar’s DIY pay & weigh açaí setup invites customers to get creative with their bowls, featuring organic açaí, seasonal fruits, and healthy superfoods like mulberries, cacao nibs, chia seeds, and buckinis. For smoothie lovers, Blitz Bar offers eight curated blends, as well as a build-your-own smoothie station where customers can select from various fruits, leafy greens, liquid bases, superfoods, and protein boosters.
The store builds on the strong branding foundation of Blitz Bar’s Brighton and Glenferrie Road locations, with a touch of luxury usually reserved for fine-dining destinations. With ample room for 100 customers, the ambient space features a clean, aesthetic, and modern interior with subtle green and soft blush tones enhanced with refined finishes like Taj Mahal marble, rich timbers, and beautiful terracotta tiles. The thoughtfully-designed interior leads to a generous sun-lit courtyard, perfect for those wanting to bask in the sunshine while enjoying their DIY creations.
Visit Blitz Bar at 111 Chapel Street, Windsor, VIC. Open daily from 8am– 10pm.
DRINK: Fruitage
Rodenbach Fruitage is a cherry-flavoured beer that’s as unique as it sounds. It’s the perfect blend between a cocktail and dark red beer, refreshingly different and absolutely delicious. By Belgium brewer Rondebach, this sweet-sour but fruity dark red beer is crafted with 100% natural ingredients, including cherries.
This 3.9% ABV brew is a harmonious blend of aged ale, young ale, and 7% cherries, crafted from 100% natural ingredients. To enjoy the ‘Perfect Serve’, pour Fruitage into a glass filled with ice, and add a slice of lime and mint to create a refreshing cocktail.
Rodenbach Fruitage is available to purchase from Dan Murphy’s and BWS stores nationwide for $19.19 for a four pack or $85.99 for a case.
BUY: Aquaboss
The Acquaboss Water Hammock is an absolute ripper. Made from a lightweight, mould resistant, UV protected mesh material, it’s the perfect accessory for summer. Whether floating in a pool, lake or ocean, Acquaboss also doubles as a really great beach towel with head support.
The two ends are supported by inflatable tubes. If the inflatable parts were to somehow break you can buy replacement parts – you don’t have to replace the entire water hammock. So, unlike most water floating devices, Acquaboss last for years and years.
Aquaboss also comes with a waterproof phone pouch and a floating drink holder, and, they pack down very compactly, so you can travel with them easily.
We have a three Acquaboss water hammocks to giveaway, valued at $150! To be in with a chance to win, simply email info@onyamagazine.com with the subject line ACQUABOSS and your full name and postal address. Three winners will be selected at random and notified via email on Friday December 20, 2024.
TRY: Armor All
With summer well and truly here, there’s no shortage of outdoor adventures and beach days for Aussie families.
Whether you’re getting ready for a road trip with the family (or recovering from one!), Armor All offers a range of products to tackle the messes that come with family adventures and outdoor fun.
A car wash in the comfort of your own driveway can be a breeze with the right products and the know-how. Armor All, the #1 brand in car care, makes vehicle cleaning and protection simple, with a proven track record of delivering innovative, easy-to-use, and effective products for over 50 years.
We’ve broken down our picks of the best products, in their new packaging that comes with an increased percentage of recycled materials and adopts the use of high-density polyethylene bottles which are fully recyclable.
Cleaning Wipes: Ideal for quick clean-ups, these wipes tackle dirt, spills, and pet hair, making it easy to refresh your car’s interior on the go.
Ultra Shield™ +Ceramic Multi-Purpose Cleaner Spray: Perfect for cleaning sand, dirt, and stubborn stains after a day outdoors, with a ceramic formula that leaves a protective finish to help guard against future mess.
Ultra Shine™ Wax & Wash: This wash-and-wax solution combines cleaning with a high-gloss finish, making it a one-step option for a clean, shiny car in minimal time.
Ultra Shield™ Car Wash + Ceramic: Provides a deep clean while adding a protective ceramic layer that helps prevent dirt build-up, keeping your car cleaner for longer.
Glass Wipes: Effortlessly remove smudges, fingerprints, and even pet nose prints from your windows, ensuring clear visibility.
Armor All is available from a range of retailers including Supercheap Auto, Repco, Big W, Coles and Woolworths. For more information, please click here.
VISIT: SENSAS
SENSAS, the internationally-acclaimed sensory adventure experience, designed to challenge and explore the hidden potential of the five senses, has made its Australian debut in Melbourne.
SENSAS invites participants to compete in teams of 4-60 people, navigating a series of fun and crazy sensory-based challenges throughout six themed rooms where they will share and embrace the full gamut of human emotions.
Founded in 2015 by urban entertainment innovators Silvana Popovic and Grégory Lafon in Marseille, France, SENSAS has since expanded to several locations including Spain, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia and the UK.
Having received Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Award earlier this year, SENSAS has welcomed more than one million visitors globally with a Google rating of 4.9 stars. Now, the team is joining forces with leading global live-entertainment discovery platform, Fever, to bring this unique immersive experience down-under.
A session at SENSAS ensures you experience a range of “XXL” emotions during your session. From heightened primal fear to uncontrollable, side-bending laughter; it’s that roller coaster of feelings that arise when the deprivation of a sense is combined with pure imagination.
This is unbridled fun, and I cannot recommended it enough. For further information, head to sensas-experience.com/melbourne.
We have a four ticket bundle to SENSAS to giveaway, valued at $220! To be in with a chance to win, simply email info@onyamagazine.com with the subject line SENSAS and let us know why you’d like to experience SENSAS with three friends. The winner will be notified via email on Friday December 20, 2024.
READ: Taboo by Hannah Ferguson
From bestselling author Hannah Ferguson comes a powerful exploration of modern womanhood that weaves deeply personal stories with opinions and advice on sex, friendship, family, career and beyond. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, Taboo meets women where they are and as they are.
Following the massive success of her debut book, Bite Back, Hannah Ferguson has returned with another sharply intelligent release, this time turning her trademark candour and incisiveness towards exploring the difficult questions we don’t ask and why.
‘I have built a career explaining to people how the media utilises language to distort our understanding of politics, law and power,’ writes Hannah. ‘But how has the language of womanhood, and the absence of it, defined and slowed our fight for equality?’
From personal explorations on painful sex, body image issues, self-sabotaging relationships and the death of the girl-boss, Hannah asks us to examine how taboos have marginalised women and the power that language has to set us free.
Taboo is your big sister in a book, navigating the frank, candid discussions about sex, relationships, money and friendship that you’ve always wanted to have, but never found the courage to.
Taboo, Affirm Press, is out now.