"CityNews" food reviews are up and running for 2023 and first up is a mega winner, writes WENDY JOHNSON.
Wendy Johnson
Wendy Johnson: Food reviewer for Canberra CityNews magazine since 2004, covering stories for true foodies to digest.
Here are dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON'S top picks for 2022.
Dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON orders Wagyu tongue and Rebel Rebel comes up trumps.
It's been honoured with a Chef’s Hat award, but that hasn’t changed the essence of XO where its team exists only to create innovative and modern dishes that pay homage to traditional south-east Asian cuisine, writes reviewer WENDY JOHNSON.
"We finished the wine with our dirty plates before us. Multiple staff passed by multiple times without paying any attention and nobody popped by while we dined to see if we needed anything," writes unhappy dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON.
Sri Lankan food is an explosion of colour, spices and flavours, as dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON reports from Banana Leaf.
"At Canteen, each noodle is handmade daily on site from Australian durum wheat, rye flour and kansui in a custom nood room." Dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON's been a new place at the Dairy Road Precinct.
Dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON, in search of a quick, casual and no-fuss lunch, found herself tempted by roast duck in Dickson.
There's a first time for everything and for dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON it was buffalo momos and a dish with boiled and pan-fried goat giblets to Lakeside Gurkhas on the Kingston Foreshore, which specialises in Nepalese cuisine.
Dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON visits a new Japanese restaurant where things are done a little differently...
Dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON finds herself at a bar for those who love loud music. But the food's good.
It's not often that dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON uses the work "cracker". She saves it for special dishes, such as this week's "cracker", the Ayam Rendang in an unassuming cafe in O'Connor.
