Sydney foodies will be rubbing their hands together in glee when they get their hands on the latest Foodies Guide to Sydney.
The fourth annual edition of the Guide goes on sale this week, with co-authors Helen Greenwood and John Newton providing details on more than 450 fresh, handmade and general food retailers.
The guide contains more than 30 chapters listing the best places to buy everything from pastries to pasta, fresh bread to cakes, aged cheese to ripe, organic fruit and vegetables.
Those on the MasterChef bandwagon will like the latest addition to the guide, which tell you where chefs shop, unlocks the secrets of cured meats and provides a list of favoured factory food outlets.
Readers can navigate the guide by category or suburb and then find their way to each location using maps at the back of the book.
And then there are the winners of the Foodies’ Awards for 2010. These are:
• Bread Sanoma Baking Co, Waterloo
• Butchers and poulterers Pino’s Dolce Vita, Kogarah
• Cakes, biscuits and pastries Manna from Heaven, Marrickville
• Cheese Formaggi Ocello, Surry Hills
• Chocolate and Confectionary Blackamoor Confections, Kingsgrove
• Delicatessens De’Lish, Lindfield
• Fish and seafood Fine Fish & Martin’s Seafood, Neutral Bay
• Food stores Fourth Village Providore, Mosman
• Greengrocers Ripegrocer, Mona Vale
• Ice-cream and gelato Pompei’s Gelateria and Pizzeria, Bondi Beach
• Markets Eveleigh Farmer’s Market, Darlington
• Organic food The Health Emporium, Bondi
• Pasta Adamo’s Pasta, Rosebery
• Smallgoods Olympic Delicatessen and Butcher, Bankstown
• Tea Taka Tea Garden, The Strand Arcade
• Wine and spirit merchants Vaucluse Cellars, Vaucluse
The winners of the Foodies’ Achievement Awards for 2010 are:
• The Lifetime Achievement Award: Ramon Reguero
• The Joe Antico Young Achievers Award: Carmelo and Sogna Ocello, Formaggi Ocello.
• Australia on a Plate Best Young Cheese Purveyor: Anthony Femia
The Foodies’ Guide to Sydney 2010 by Helen Greenwood and John Newton, published by Fairfax Books and Hardie Grant Books, is available at bookstores and newsagents, or buy direct from The Sydney Morning Herald at www.smhshop.com.au for RRP $29.95.
