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Hermitage masterpieces | royal ice-cream | from Russia with love

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Just what every blue-blooded ice-cream lover needs this summer… The “Cameo Service” made by the Sèvres Porcelain Factory in France in the late 18th century for Catherine the Great, is one of the grandest and most expensive dinner services ever made. It comprises more than 700 pieces (taking care of dinner, dessert and coffee, including a very divine…

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sydney under the radar | restaurants locals love | new tables

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  While fine dining temples such as the reborn Bennelong and the scheduled Noma summer pop-up at Barangaroo have been getting all the press love lately, elsewhere Sydney sizzles with more under-the-radar options. Here, four hot new diners. Petrol, in Springfield Avenue, has in the past eight years become something of an institution among Potts…

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Manta makeover | sydney waterfront dining

Monroe
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Dining at the Woolloomooloo Wharf is one of the best ways to experience Sydney. It delivers the goods for both locals and visitors. Manta Restaurant and Bar, between Otto and China Doll, has after nine years, undergone a makeover. Over Veuve Clicquot and a degustation to introduce the new look and feel, owner Rob Rubis…

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Coffee harvest in Costa Rica | sustainable crops | the Nespresso express

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The future of premium coffee lies as much in nurturing the farmer as the beans they produce. Editor Susan Skelly reports from the coffee plantations of Costa Rica. High in the San Ramon region of Costa Rica’s Central Highlands, a soufflé-fine mist is falling on Edgar Fernandez Araya’s coffee plants, making the already glossy leaves…

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New Zealand escape | Otahuna Lodge | Earthquake restoration

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Cool, understated elegance that belies inner sparkle and sizzle.

When two earthquakes hit the city of Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island within five months of each other, historic buildings were among the casualties. But luck and dedicated custodians were on the side of the 115-year-old manor, Otahuna. Over martinis in the sophisticated lobby of Sydney’s Langham hotel last month, Hall Cannon introduced a…

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marc newson wish-list | taking tea with georg jensen | heirloom design

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A state-of-the-art watch, designer pens, and a shimmering silver tea service … Australian designer Marc Newson  continues to accessorise our lives. I don’t have a Lockheed Lounge or an Apple Watch but I do have a Marc Newson dish rack. It’s lime green with orange tips in fetching injection-molded glossy polypropylene and it has made…

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The good oil on Molise | Foraging in Sweden | Hats off to Paris

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As Sydney travel and food writer Carli Ratcliff reflects, researching bespoke travel experiences is full of unexpected finds – from olive-oil obsessed princesses to epic Scandinavian landscapes, gourmet ingredients … and a milliner’s mile of ribbon! Seeking out behind-the-scenes experiences is all in a day’s work when foraging for travel articles or putting together itineraries…

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Catalina Catch | Sydney waterfront dining | People’s Choice

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Is there anything more quintessentially Sydney than lunch at Catalina? It’s like a scene from a Richard Scarry What Do People Do All Day? picture book. The laden Louise Savage Supercat ferry slides on by; striped sailing dinghies dart about the harbour like angelfish on speed; a sea plane swoops into the drink looking like…

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Unique Sydney shopping | Retail therapy | Sydney mementos

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Whether the mission is memento, marking a milestone, last-minute gift or an “I deserve it” pick-me-up, these unique Sydney shops won’t let you down. Iconic Paddington store Opus reopened it doors recently after a relocation a few doors up Oxford Street and a $5 million refurb. It’s still painted green, although the 2015 version is more…

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Confessions of a perfume addict | Into the woods | 2015 fragrance trends

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If you go down to the woods today … you’ll probably go tomorrow as well. Skelly Susan quizzes fragrance oracle Michael Edwards on this year’s perfume trends and why we keep buying the same scent. New on the Excess All Areas perfume shelf this week is Etat Libre d’Orange’s Tom of Finland and Memo’s eau…

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