Seed and Stone

Introducing Seed & Stone: Chinatown’s new plant-based café

Therese Smith has been making vegan sweet treats for CBD café-hoppers since 2018, and she's now opened her first (mostly) dairy-free café Seed & Stone in the Central Market.

Recipe: Day old bread with blood pudding and grated apple

If it was necessary for magazines to have a stance on such things, CityMag would be unashamedly pro-bread. We love bread, and so does Flinders Street Project chef and co-owner Stewart Wesson. Bread and BBQs, though, are not traditionally friends - unless there's a sausage around to mediate things.

Meet the front-of-house

CityMag sees all elements of the hospo hustle and while chefs are often held up on a pedestal, the service overall can make or break the customer experience. Here are some of our front-of-house heroes.

Get in the spirit for World Gin Day at a dark arts street party

Indulge in the dark arts on Gilbert Place for World Gin Day, as your favourite backstreet bars team up for a massive midwinter party.

Shop happy at Bowerbird with these picks from the circular economy

If the quest to reduce your environmental impact sees you going without rather than buying new, these stallholders at Bowerbird just might soothe your style cravings and your conscience.

Pitching at the edge

The road from startup to success story is paved with a million pitches. CityMag speaks with five young companies who’ve sought angel investment about living in the moment between success and failure.

Building a new food system from chef Jackson Bennett’s backyard

Bloom's executive chef Jackson Bennett wants to break down the major supermarket chains' fresh food dominance by rebuilding a network of small-scale market gardeners and delivering locally grown food to your door.

‘It’s just me raw, telling my story’

Driven by a ‘warrior spirit’ craving freedom of expression, Devi Telfer has reimagined her intimate theatre work about an Aboriginal woman’s search for her Song for a new season at Tandanya.