I Don't Eat, I Devour

First of all, the décor and serving ware at Edition Coffee Roasters are the wabisabi style of my dreams. Moody yet calming, simple yet elegant, they certainly elevate the dining experience.  Best known for their coffee (as the name suggests), the food served at Edition Coffee Roasters is best described as Japanese-Scandi-fusion, and will be reason for my numerous return trips. It is unsurprising that it won best café at the Time Out Food Awards 2018. Wagyu meatball don, $23.10  Most of the savoury options on the small but curated menu are sandwich-like options, therefore the wagyu meatball don (rice bowl) immediately caught my attention. Served with crunchy, marinated cucumber, crispy nori, and a soy-cured egg yolk, the konbu rice was a real highlight. Umami, gently savoury and utterly moreish, this is a rice bowl I couldn't imagine easily replicating anywhere else. Each component is so skillfully created (particularly the soy-cured yolk: truly inspired), its simplicity is dec...

The chef is Finnish, the old location is Darlinghurst, the menu is short and sweet, the taste is fusion. Welcome to Cafe Paci 2.0 - this time, located along the bustling main strip of Newtown and conveniently only a couple doors down from Mapo, my favourite gelato place in Sydney. I had heard s much about its molasses and potato bread that this accompaniment to a meal is what I had looked forward to the most. Potato molasses bread, $4 each These are heavy - that's the first thing I noticed about them. Heavy, however, doesn't mean stodgy. It is a style of bread that is different to my favourite, being the sourdough at Kitchen By Mike, yet it is neither dry nor overly chewy. It is comforting, with a slight sweet stickiness that isn't intrusive. Chicken liver paris-brest w’ onion jam, $16 This is my favourite item on the menu. Shaped like a desssert - the pastry usually reserved for  sweet cream and jam is revolutionised to hold liver pate and onion jam. The slig...