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Time Out
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Osteria Mucca
✍️ Time Out Sydney never writes starred restaurant and bar reviews from hosted experiences – Time Out covers restaurant and bar bills, and anonymously reviews, so that readers can trust our critique. Find out more, here. There are a lot of beautiful dining rooms in Sydney – the kind that, when you step inside, whisk you away to another world; where thoughts of to-do lists and Everest-like piles of laundry melt away like lemon granita under the Amalfi sun. Bennelong, tucked within the city's white sails, is one of them. So too is the coastal kitsch of Sean's in Bondi. Osteria Mucca, a charming trattoria from the Continental Deli crew that opened in April this year, is another such room. Found on Newtown 's happening Australia Street, the 50-seat Italian restaurant had a past life as a butcher. Those 115-year-old forest-green-and-white tiles are the originals. Candles flicker on top of white tablecloths, Art Deco-style vintage lights hang from the ceiling – creating the perfect dinner-date glow – and vintage plates jazz up the walls. This is the work of Sarah Doyle, co-owner and creative director of Paisano & Daughters, who has a knack for creating venues with their own soul. (It just takes one peep into siblings and neighbours – eclectic fisherman's den Mister Grotto, honey-hued plant celebration Flora, and Continental Deli with its big Euro energy – to fully appreciate her talent.) The room feels like an occasion, so we bypass the Limoncello Spritz and Mucca Martini in favour of a glass of Sella & Mosca's sparkling from Sardinia, poured (and appreciated) tableside. Cheers. The timeless space isn't the only thing I'm a big fan of Leading the kitchen is Janina Allende, who ran the pass at Sydney favourite Pellegrino 2000 for more than two years, and also spent time on the pans at Alberto's Lounge and Bar Vincent. At Osteria Mucca, Allende is spotlighting regional Italian classics, with home-style recipes and handmade pasta. In a nod to the restaurant's former life – and because the group knows their way around meat (Osteria Mucca shares DNA with the award-winning Porteño) – they also do all their butchery in-house. FYI – 'Mucca' means 'cow' in Italian. But we start with land and sea – a riff on puntarelle alla Romana, which sees ribbon-like curls of the slightly bitter, crunchy and cool puntarelle coated in a punchy anchovy dressing tempered with creamy, veneer-white buffalo mozzarella. So good. Meanwhile, hunks of pickled cauliflower, carrot and onion rest atop a smooth, nutty fava bean dip doused in olive oil, and are best mopped up with a crusty ciabatta roll that the team source from Brickfields. Next comes our cotechino – a dish that tastes both new and familiar. Soft, house-made pork sausage meat fragrant with cinnamon, clove and nutmeg rests on a bed of slow-cooked buttery-sweet lentils and vegetables. It's adorned with a vivid salsa verde, chewy mustard fruits and delicate shavings of horseradish. Originating from northern Italy, cotechino con lenticchie is traditionally eaten on New Year's Eve; the coin-shaped lentils symbolising wealth and prosperity. I say to our waiter it tastes like Christmas, and he says it's a hit then, too. Also a hit: our bottle of 2022 Montesecondo Rosso sangiovese from Tuscany that's cherry-red and lovely with soft tannins. Ping-pong-shaped balls of ricotta gnudi, so soft you can cut them with a spoon, sit in a pool of browned butter and topped with crisp sage leaves and thin shavings of lemon rind that cleverly cut through and lift. This, and whatever season of Survivor, and you can stick a fork in me – I'm done Formidable pastry chef Lauren Eldridge is behind the desserts at Osteria Mucca (and the three other Paisano & Daughters venues), which features house-made gelato (right now it's grapefruit); cassata with ricotta, chocolate and candied fruit; and bonèt alla Piemontese – a chocolate and amaretti custard topped with marsala Chantilly. If I wasn't stuffed like a, well, gnudi, I'd go for one of those. On this Tuesday night, the room hums with songs my grandparents would have danced to, the clink of glassware and the laughter of friends. There's not a table free. I say goodbye to the team, pull on my coat, step into the fresh night air – and glance back one last time. For a few hours it was all about that bellissimo dining room, those knockout gnudi and the person across from me. That's the power of a great restaurant. Now, back to life admin.
New York Post
25-06-2025
- Automotive
- New York Post
Tesla's Europe sales plunge for 5th straight month over lingering Musk brand damage
European sales of Tesla vehicles plunged for the fifth month in a row as the company continues to suffer fallout from Elon Musk's cost-cutting stint in the Trump administration. Tesla's new car sales plummeted 27.9% in May from the year before, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association. It's failing to keep up with a broader trend of sales growth, as electric vehicle sales jumped 27.2% in the region and overall car sales rose 1.9%, according to the EAMA. Tesla electric vehicles parked at a delivery center near Paris, France. REUTERS The automaker was banking on its revised Model Y – a fully-electric, mid-size SUV – to boost sales overseas. But an outbreak of protests and vandalism targeting Tesla over Musk's now-defunct role in the White House's Department of Government Efficiency have left behind lasting brand damage. 'The Musk brand damage from his political chapter with Trump is being felt most in Europe with sales remaining very weak,' Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives told The Post. '[The] Model Y refresh should be able to turn around some of these headwinds but the reality is the Europe EV market remains an Everest-like uphill climb for Musk and Tesla,' the Tesla bull added. Tesla's European market share fell to just 1.2% in May – down from 1.8% the year before. Customers have been switching over to rival Chinese automakers, which sold 65,808 cars in Europe last month and doubled their share of the market to 5.9%, according to data from Jato Dynamics. Tesla rival BYD registered nearly as many vehicles as Tesla in May after outselling Musk's brand the month before. Elon Musk's Tesla is suffering brand damage from his role in the White House. REUTERS In the first quarter, the Shenzhen-based firm doubled its profits to $1.3 billion after reporting annual revenue that leapfrogged past Tesla's to break the $100 billion mark. Total car sales have fallen 0.6% in the European Union so far this year, but demand for EVs has been growing. Registrations of battery-electric (BEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and hybrid-electric (HEV) vehicles have jumped 26.1%, 15% and 19.8%, respectively, so far this year. Sales of these electric cars accounted for a whopping 58.9% of EU passenger car registrations in May, up from 48.9% the year before, according to the data.
The Age
13-05-2025
- Politics
- The Age
The Liberals have a new leader. But do they have stability?
The task facing Sussan Ley, the newly elected federal Liberal leader and first woman to hold the position, is Everest-like in its challenges. After the election, her party has been sent back to base camp. At the time of publication, 93 seats had been declared for the Labor Party in the House of Representatives, 42 for the Coalition. Only three were still deemed too close to call. History has shown that victory, in the case of Liberal leaders, can be a false prophet. After Kevin Rudd took Labor to government in 2007, the Liberals went from leader John Howard, (who lost his seat) to Brendan Nelson to Malcolm Turnbull to Tony Abbott in the space of two years. They have since had Malcolm Turnbull again, Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton. Dutton also lost his seat at the latest election. Ley was deputy leader of the party under him and was a cabinet minister in the Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments. She won the leadership on Tuesday by 29 votes to 25 from Angus Taylor. Ted O'Brien was elected deputy. This is the first step in a very long march for the party. Ley would not be drawn on Tuesday on any policy positions or how her shadow ministry would take shape, saying instead that all policies would be thrashed out in the Coalition party room. But she was adamant on one point: 'We need more women in our party,' she said. She also said she wanted her opponent, Angus Taylor, to have a senior role and promised to pick her frontbench on merit rather than factional allegiance. In the interests of the party, the first thing Ley needs to do is to vanquish the image of the poisoned chalice that is associated with Brendan Nelson's leadership. If she can rebuild the party, and bring it back in from the wilderness to which the electorate consigned it, then she will have climbed Everest.
Irish Examiner
11-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Newcastle beat 10-man Chelsea to close in on Champions League spot
Newcastle 2 Chelsea 0 NICOLAS Jackson lost the plot as Chelsea lost their heads to play an unwanted role in helping Newcastle take a huge stride towards a Champions League return. Jackson's first-half red card ensured the Blues' uphill task took on Everest-like proportions as their top five aspirations suffered a significant blow at the hands of one of their main rivals for a place in Europe's premier competition. Newcastle climbed to third on the back of a sixth consecutive home league win and Eddie Howe's upwardly-mobile side can maintain their bid to finish second with a win at Arsenal next weekend. Despite this setback, victory in their final two games will be enough for Chelsea to seal a place back in the Champions League. Of course they will have to attempt that without the services of Jackson as the final-day trip to Nottingham Forest increasingly adopts the mantle of a play-off for the top five. The contest was effectively settled by Jackson's cowardly forearm smash to Sven Botman's cheekbone in an aerial challenge near halfway 10 minutes before the interval with the ill-disciplined visitors already in arrears thanks to Sandro Tonali's early opener. Referee John Brooks initially issued the Senegal international striker with a yellow card, but quickly upgraded it to red having been invited to review his decision by video assistant Darren England. Enzo Maresca was cautioned for his attempts to defend the indefensible and mouthy skipper Enzo Fernandez soon followed the Blues boss into the book for Chelsea's 95th caution of the campaign - an unwanted Premier League high this season. Four visiting players surrounded Brooks to continue the pointless protests en route to the tunnel at half-time. Hopefully the blue lynch mob calmed down after having a chance to review their team-mate's brainless indiscretion during the interval. Newcastle enjoyed the perfect start, Tonali making and finishing a second minute opener as the Italian dispossessed Romeo Lavia before meeting Jacob Murphy's subsequent cross with a close range first-time finish for his sixth goal of the season to immediately put Chelsea on the back-foot. The visitors rallied at the outset of the second half and Marc Cucurella forced a smart low save from Nick Pope with his side's first real threat on goal after an hour. To their credit Chelsea remained in the contest until the death and might have levelled with a late header from substitute Reece James as the 10 men refused to wilt under the energy-sapping midday sun. Newcastle had to wait until stoppage time for the nerve-soothing second goal, Bruno Guimaraes finding the top corner in spectacular style with a deflected effort from outside the area, Chelsea unable to recover from largely self-inflicted wounds to make it just one win in their last 10 Premier League away games. Newcastle (3-4-3): Pope 7; Schar 7, Botman 7 (Miley 55. 7), Burn 8; Murphy 8, Guimaraes 8 (Longstaff 90, 5), Tonali 8, Livramento 7; Barnes 6, Isak 6 (Wilson 90, 5), Gordon 6 (Krafth 65, 7). Booked: Schar, Murphy, Guimaraes. Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Sanchez 7; Caicedo 7, Chalobah 7 (Sancho 75, 5), Colwill 7, Cucurella 6; Lavia 4 (Gusto 75, 5), Fernandez 6; Neto 5, Palmer 5, Madueke 4 (James 46, 6); Jackson 0. Sent off: Jackson. Booked: Fernandez, Colwill. Referee: John Brooks
Sydney Morning Herald
05-05-2025
- Sydney Morning Herald
One of the world's best hikes is no walk in the park
This article is part of Traveller's Holiday Guide to Adventure & Outdoors. See all stories. The pristine alpine lake dotted with wooden rowboats and their enthusiastic day-tripper rowers, and the cows casually mingling with picnickers on the shore, might have lulled us into a false sense of ease. Shortly after leaving the lake we began our first ascent, to gain nearly 1000 metres in just over two kilometres, including a treacherous scramble aided by cables over rain-slicked rock. This was our first hint that the well-trodden path of the Alta Via 1 was no walk in the park. And this was just the start of our trek through the Dolomites, in northern Italy. The trail is one of the most popular multi-day treks in Europe, and with traditional mountain cabin accommodation that comes with three-course Italian dinners and all-you-can-eat buffet breakfasts, it's also one of the fanciest. But don't let the soft pillows, lunchtime beers or afternoon aperitivos fool you: the 120-kilometre trek is a serious hike. Narrow balcony paths, head-spinning heights and hundreds of metres of ascent every day make it a serious test of physical strength, and a mental challenge to boot. The Dolomites are named after the distinctive pale limestone rock that dominates the landscape in dramatic towers and white-grey peaks that can soar well over 3000 metres high. These alps erupt out of the surrounding pine forests and green valleys which often echo with the chaotic pealing of cow, goat or sheep bells. It is impossible to disagree with the UNESCO World Heritage listing for the area, describing it as one of 'the most attractive mountain landscapes in the world'. A hike of Everest-like proportions Believe it or not, the Alta Via 1 is one of the easier hikes through the Dolomites as it does not include any via ferrata sections, which are paths that can include ladders and cables that require technical equipment and a serious head for heights. But easier does not mean easy: the walk includes a total of just over 7800 metres of ascent and 8850 metres of descent, roughly the equivalent in elevation gain as a hike to the top of Mount Everest and back.
