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The Age
5 hours ago
- The Age
Sydney's essential cafes for matcha and specialty drinks
A growing number of Sydney cafes are specialising in neither tea nor coffee. Rather, it's a special third thing. This category celebrates all the forward-thinking cafes turning tradition on its head by serving express-brewed teas covered in cream-cheese foam; milky lattes whisked with hojicha; and pink-hued French Earl Grey in hot chocolate, with fairy floss. You'll find matcha and its many variations here. Yes, matcha is rooted in centuries of Chinese and Japanese tradition, but it stands apart from loose-leaf green tea due to its significant uptake in Sydney over the past two years. Harnessed for both its health and aesthetic properties, matcha has become synonymous with new-wave cafes, which serve it swirled with strawberry jam, whisked into cheesecakes and layered with thick milk foam. Want to know more? Read on for Sydney's best places to drink matcha and other specialty drinks. It's part of Good Food's Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025. Presented by T2, the guide celebrates the people and places that shape our excellent cafe and bakery scenes and includes more than 100 venues reviewed anonymously across 11 categories, including icons, those best for food, tea and coffee, and where to get the city's best sweets, sandwiches and baked goods. (These reviews also live on the Good Food app, and are discoverable on the map.) Previous SlideNext Slide Cre Asion
Sydney Morning Herald
12 hours ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
The clothes Australian men should buy for themselves
Very occasionally, a menswear label comes along that blows your socks and sandals off, giving hope that Australian men might finally step their style game up beyond blue suits, bone chinos, polo shirts and RM Williams boots. Last month designer Ryan Morrow launched a capsule collection for his label Morrow. The concise range includes an inventive take on cargo pants in Japanese canvas, cotton voile shirts in boxy, blokey silhouettes and water-repellant jackets that offer a streamlined aesthetic update to Driza-Bone's classic waxed jackets. Morrow's outlook is exquisite in its simplicity, but its outback-meets-the-city refinement won't make selling it to Australian men any easier. 'With menswear we are behind our female customers and their approach to designer fashion,' says Brittany Kipniak, senior menswear buyer for online retailer The Iconic. 'Menswear is still very much driven by the female customer. We are a data-led business, and it's still her buying for him. Perhaps he is jumping onto her account sometimes to buy things.' Kipniak sees progress, with a smaller group of young men embracing trend-driven urban wear through social media, but the core menswear customer is interested in comfort that looks conservative. 'Men are increasingly starting to adopt those more global trends and contemporary looks a bit more quickly than they have in the past. That classic guy is evolving and adding an extra layer. Homegrown local brands, like RM Williams and Rodd & Gunn remain the crowd favourite.' It's a similar story at department store David Jones where Chris Wilson, executive general manager of menswear, has witnessed slow evolution in the past six years. 'There's still an element of keeping it classic, but the male customer is definitely moving on from a trend point of view,' says Wilson. 'It's still slow but it's steady.'
The Age
12 hours ago
- The Age
The clothes Australian men should buy for themselves
Very occasionally, a menswear label comes along that blows your socks and sandals off, giving hope that Australian men might finally step their style game up beyond blue suits, bone chinos, polo shirts and RM Williams boots. Last month designer Ryan Morrow launched a capsule collection for his label Morrow. The concise range includes an inventive take on cargo pants in Japanese canvas, cotton voile shirts in boxy, blokey silhouettes and water-repellant jackets that offer a streamlined aesthetic update to Driza-Bone's classic waxed jackets. Morrow's outlook is exquisite in its simplicity, but its outback-meets-the-city refinement won't make selling it to Australian men any easier. 'With menswear we are behind our female customers and their approach to designer fashion,' says Brittany Kipniak, senior menswear buyer for online retailer The Iconic. 'Menswear is still very much driven by the female customer. We are a data-led business, and it's still her buying for him. Perhaps he is jumping onto her account sometimes to buy things.' Kipniak sees progress, with a smaller group of young men embracing trend-driven urban wear through social media, but the core menswear customer is interested in comfort that looks conservative. 'Men are increasingly starting to adopt those more global trends and contemporary looks a bit more quickly than they have in the past. That classic guy is evolving and adding an extra layer. Homegrown local brands, like RM Williams and Rodd & Gunn remain the crowd favourite.' It's a similar story at department store David Jones where Chris Wilson, executive general manager of menswear, has witnessed slow evolution in the past six years. 'There's still an element of keeping it classic, but the male customer is definitely moving on from a trend point of view,' says Wilson. 'It's still slow but it's steady.'
