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Sydney Morning Herald
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
This regional post office may be home to the best burger in Australia
Anyway, all this adds up to a tower of fresh flavour where each bite is underlined by a different ingredient. The bacon is generous. The onions, translucent but not browned. It may take a few bites until you hit pineapple. The 130-gram patty is lean on fat, which some burger purists will hate, but I don't mind finishing the thing and still feeling human. The perfect trinity of salty, sweet and lightly pickled. I brought a second burger back to Moss Vale for my partner, who was less keen to leave the throw-rug of our Airbnb for the half-hour trip to Wingello. By this time, all the components have had more time to mingle and develop in their white paper bag. Brilliant with half a glass of last night's gamay at 11:30am. Thanks go to two-time Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championship finalist, and taco chef, Toby Wilson for alerting me to the burger three weeks ago. Wilson only discovered it after seeing an ad for the cafe before The Penguin Lessons at Bowral's Empire Cinema. (NB: The Bruggeman family has a YouTube channel where you can watch all their house-made cinema ads, dating back to 2020. It is absolutely worth your time.) Like our regional Chinese restaurants, agricultural shows and vanilla slice-famous bakeries, Wingello Village Store is one of those great 'only in Australia' spots that tourism boards could spend more time promoting – especially to city-dwellers who would increasingly rather jump on a Disney Wonder cruise than explore their own backyard. The burger doesn't taste like cheap thrills and corporate grease. It tastes like Paul Kelly singalongs and sunsets and Sunday drives. It tastes like a kitchen that gives a damn.
The Age
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
This regional post office may be home to the best burger in Australia
Anyway, all this adds up to a tower of fresh flavour where each bite is underlined by a different ingredient. The bacon is generous. The onions, translucent but not browned. It may take a few bites until you hit pineapple. The 130-gram patty is lean on fat, which some burger purists will hate, but I don't mind finishing the thing and still feeling human. The perfect trinity of salty, sweet and lightly pickled. I brought a second burger back to Moss Vale for my partner, who was less keen to leave the throw-rug of our Airbnb for the half-hour trip to Wingello. By this time, all the components have had more time to mingle and develop in their white paper bag. Brilliant with half a glass of last night's gamay at 11:30am. Thanks go to two-time Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championship finalist, and taco chef, Toby Wilson for alerting me to the burger three weeks ago. Wilson only discovered it after seeing an ad for the cafe before The Penguin Lessons at Bowral's Empire Cinema. (NB: The Bruggeman family has a YouTube channel where you can watch all their house-made cinema ads, dating back to 2020. It is absolutely worth your time.) Like our regional Chinese restaurants, agricultural shows and vanilla slice-famous bakeries, Wingello Village Store is one of those great 'only in Australia' spots that tourism boards could spend more time promoting – especially to city-dwellers who would increasingly rather jump on a Disney Wonder cruise than explore their own backyard. The burger doesn't taste like cheap thrills and corporate grease. It tastes like Paul Kelly singalongs and sunsets and Sunday drives. It tastes like a kitchen that gives a damn.
BBC News
11-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Halstead cat Cleo joins Essex Police patrol
There was a new face on the beat after a cat jumped into a police response vehicle in a bid to escape rainy a Maine Coon, hopped into the Essex Police patrol car in Halstead, with officers stating she "made herself right at home" by "sharpening her claws on the seats" and "grooming herself on the parcel shelf".Her owner, Carly Thomson, said three-and-a-half-year-old Cleo was no stranger to adventure and often invited herself into the local cinema, bingo hall and Police said: "It looks like Cleo enjoyed her little adventure with us, and we were more than happy to have her company!" Ms Thomson, 32, said Cleo was "the most famous cat in all of Halstead", adding that she even had her own Facebook page documenting her said: "You always see her in front of the Empire Cinema, she goes into the cinema, she goes and plays bingo with all the regulars, she goes in the gym on the yoga mats, sits in the football ground."There's a car garage place just down the road and she's in there all the time. I even had to do her flea treatment in there, because she was due to have it and that's where she was! She was on the top of a car roof while they were working on it." Reflecting on Cleo's latest adventure, Ms Thomson said: "It was funny, the police officer messaged me direct, she said Cleo jumped in the police car and was enjoying herself! "Then she [Cleo] came home and slept in my daughter's bed all night before going back out on her adventures."The community look out for her, if anything was to happen to her then people know." Follow Essex news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
