Category Archives: Reviews

Review: Agave Mexican Restaurant, Surry Hills

Props to Agave for being the first restaurant we’ve reviewed for Oz-mex.com that’s been bright enough to actually see what you are eating.  Izote and Baja Cantina (I usually get seated in the back patio) both serve in gloomy spaces … Continue reading

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Cookbook Review: The Tex-Mex Cookbook

As detailed elsewhere, I’m not super concerned about “authenticity”.  Good food, cooked with heart and shared with friends, can be high-brow or low-brow and it just doesn’t matter. Robb Walsh seems to share my views.  He’s a Houston-based food writer, … Continue reading

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Review: Baja Cantina, Glebe

If you know me, you know my general impression of Mexican restaurants in Sydney.  So it’s with a little reluctance that I start restaurant reviews, because I don’t just want to set up a cranky series of whinging restaurant posts.  … Continue reading

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Cookbook Review: The Texas Provincial Kitchen

In 2001, I was starting to cook more seriously, which meant more gadgets, of course. I was looking for a flat, cast-iron comal or griddle, and the traditional Mexican food grinder made of hollowed-out lava rock, the molcajete. I found … Continue reading

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