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
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
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
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