Alexandra Carlton

1 week ago | gourmettraveller.com.au | Alexandra Carlton

Home Travel Accommodation Where to stay in the French capital, according to the GT editors. Asides For a small – but shocking – moment, Paris perhaps started to feel un peu passé.

4 weeks ago | gourmettraveller.com.au | Alexandra Carlton

Ask any long-term Sydney diner and they’ll probably tell you that the golden century of restaurants was the 20th. It was a time of long lunches and limitless expense accounts. No smartphones meant big nights – and any corresponding misbehaviour – vanished without evidence. A jewel of the era was Golden Century Seafood Restaurant in Haymarket, the city’s most storied Cantonese haunt, which opened its doors (and left them open most nights until 4am) in 1989.

1 month ago | gourmettraveller.com.au | Alexandra Carlton

A shiny purple column slices through the centre of the room. There are floaty light fittings (one has a baseball hanging, inexplicably, from its base), angular vases and gilt-framed horse paintings. A grand piano. Mirrored, sparkly, dangly things. It’s all strewn around the classical bones of what was once an 1850s bank, so there’s also marble columns, Tasmanian oak panelling and a six-metre carved plaster ceiling.

1 month ago | escape.com.au | Alexandra Carlton

1. Take an epic Australian train journeyThe land of sweeping plains is best viewed from a train, to fully appreciate its vast majesty. Choose an epic journey from north to south, or explore an outback corner. HOW TO DO ITThe Ghan: Darwin to Adelaide in the top-class Australis Suite might set you back more than $16,000 but you could also do one night between Adelaide and Alice Springs in the next-level Platinum Suite for $4690.

1 month ago | gourmettraveller.com.au | Alexandra Carlton

When you visit Fins Seafood in Bicton in southwest Perth, you’ll notice two things. One, there’s a pretty radical takeaway and eat-in menu up on the board, featuring several options that push past the usual fish and chips such as “crayssants” (crayfish croissants), tuna cheeseburgers and octopus hot dogs. The other is the fresh fish counter, which has much more available than just the predictable snapper and cod. On the right day you might find glossy red fillets of mangrove jack from the Pilbara.