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Perth Now
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
‘Magnificent': Nigella Lawson raves about two WA restaurants
Beloved UK celebrity cook Nigella Lawson has proven how much she loves WA, making her second trip to the State in just over a year. The culinary queen made a stop in the South West to dine at some of the wine region's best restaurants and said it felt 'so heart-expandingly good to be back'. Taking to Instagram to rave about Margaret River's award-winning Cullen Wines, Lawson said her lunch at the venue was so good it cured her jet lag. 'What does any wise person do on arriving in Margaret River? Why, go straight for lunch at @cullenwines, of course! That's my cure for jet lag and my recipe for deep joy,' she captioned a picture of her view of the vines and a bottle of sparkling wine. If you'd like to view this content, please adjust your . To find out more about how we use cookies, please see our Cookie Guide. 'I just revel in the blue of this sky, the green of these vines, and the exuberant red of the sun umbrellas! 'The bottle you see resting on a beam is a just-opened Pet Nat, which is to say a sparkling wine that finishes its fermentation in the bottle, and short (very Australian!)' She said despite not usually being a big fan of natural wine, Cullen's drop was an exception. The 65-year-old also ate at Cape Lodge in Yallingup where she was greeted with an 'absurdly magnificent view'. 'The scenery may be naturally majestic, but their lighting certainly pays worthy homage!' she said. Lawson makes regular trips Down Under and was last here in March 2024 for an event with MasterChef judge Matt Preston at Perth Concert Hall. She will soon be heading east where she will host a number of dinners for Vivid Sydney 2025.
Yahoo
05-04-2025
- Yahoo
NYC Chinatown residents demand end to open streets program that turns neighborhood into ‘s–tshow'
Chinatown residents want to put the brakes on the return of open street parties to Canal Street this spring, saying the city's move to close off part of the street turned their peaceful neighborhood into 'spring break in Miami' for seven months of the year. Last year, two blocks of Canal – between Orchard and Essex – were closed off to traffic from 3 to 11pm daily from April to October, allowing bars and restaurants to add hundreds of seats on the street, creating what residents described as a free-for-all. They said adding 300 diners — with no extra toilets — was 'psychotic.' 'The public urination is out of control. I've said to people, 'Hey would you mind not peeing here?' and they've said to me, 'Why don't I punch you in your f—ing mouth. It's awful,' said neighbor Elizabeth Zalman. Another neighbor said someone urinated in his building's flowerpot. 'It's chaos,' said Bruce Torrey. 'It's a combat zone.' A group of residents and business owners launched a stomach-churning campaign – using photos of public urination, puking and raucous behavior — to capture City Hall's attention and deep-six a wine bar's sidewalk-dining application. It worked. In a rare move, City Hall rejected Le Dive's request for 18 sidewalk seats. But for neighbors, that's just a symbolic victory. They expect Le Dive to get approval to put 87 seats on the street, along with half a dozen other bars and restaurants. Jon Neidich, owner of Le Dive, told The Post the restaurants are being unfairly targeted. 'The block parties and stuff like that — that didn't come from any of the restaurants. Our business is having people seated and serving them,' he said. The residents' focus now is trying to get the city to put limits on the Canal Open Streets program They say partiers inevitably end up spilling out onto side streets, leaving behind broken glass, cigarette butts and various bodily fluids. 'You see these little grandmas the next morning sweeping up the streets because they're going to get a fine from the Sanitation Department saying 'this is a s–tshow',' said Zalman, who lives on Orchard Street. Shop owners say they are losing customers. 'It screwed up my business,' vented Frank Farooq, who has owned Hi-Tech Electronic Service Center on Canal for 32 years. 'They block my entrance and my customers cannot come.' The low point came on Oct. 4, when a 26-year-old man was slashed in the face after a dispute. 'Residents and business owners were left to clean up the blood while diners looked on, drinking their Pet Nat,' one resident told The Post. The community's main ask to the DOT is to reduce the number of seats restaurants are allowed to add on Canal by half. They also want the party to end an hour earlier, and to have no seating on the south side of Canal to make way for an emergency lane. So far, restaurants have agreed to limit the party to four days a week instead of seven. The DOT confirmed Canal Open Streets was approved to operate from Thursdays to Sundays for the 2025 season.
