Word: harbourer
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...That harbour," sighs an old wharfie in Katherine Thomson's new play for the Sydney Theatre Company. "She dances some days. Like she's trying to jump out of her skin." Indeed, no other Australian city seems to shed its skin - or grow a new one - as readily as Sydney. After all, it's the place where an historic wharf can turn into luxury apartments for the likes of Russell Crowe. And where an old bond store in former working-class Millers Point can transform into a chic theater for the middle classes - the new Sydney Theatre, where Thomson...
...change (Emerald City, Up for Grabs), Sydney also harbors a pluckier spirit; its citizens can hunker down, when fired by a sense of injustice, and fight. That's the message of two new plays strutting the Sydney stage, both inspired by recent public events. 'When people get together," says Harbour's retired wharfie Sandy (Peter Carroll), 'they can give each other the courage to dance through the flames...
...bring guests to either Scala or the Harbour Grill if you're looking to show off Hong Kong's most fashionable rooms?you'll want Spoon for that. But if you're entertaining people who love fine food, you're in for a surprisingly good time at any of them. With any luck, there'll be more culinary discoveries over the coming year, too. It certainly couldn't be any worse than the last...
...Spoon will be a formidable competitor to the city's other top-league restaurants, but other contenders are emerging from unexpected quarters?among them the low-key Renaissance Harbour View Hotel. Located in the shadow of the more fashionable Grand Hyatt, the Renaissance is home to Scala, tel: (852) 2802 8888, a fine-dining restaurant that regulars say has long served the best Continental cuisine in Hong Kong but is only now starting to win critical attention. Chiefly responsible for this is the young, talented local chef Ricky Cheung: how someone who has never trained in Europe can show such...
...Across the water in Kowloon, buzz is also starting to gravitate around Giampaolo Maffini, chef at the Harbour Grill, tel: (852) 2996 8433?a deceptively bland name for an astonishing restaurant in the mid-range Harbour Plaza Hotel in Hung Hom. Hong Kong's chattering classes might never summon up the will to go to this nondescript district of tower blocks and train lines?more fool them, for Maffini's talent is a rare one. His soups (oyster with Pernod; cauliflower with caviar) are masterful and original; the racks of lamb are so good they defy description; and his duck...