Food & Booze in Hyde Park!

Listen up booze hounds.

The New South Wales Wine Festival is kicking off this week with Sydney Cellar Door.

Wineries from all over the state are setting up shop in Hyde Park, with tasting packages starting from $20 for 5 tokens.

Yes, for that price you could buy a goon sack or two, but maybe know’s the time to graduate to the real stuff!

Some of Sydney’s best restaurants will be there too. You’ll be able to eat food from Porteno without waiting forever for a table! Everything from rice paper rolls to garlic snails will be on offer from 11-6pm this Saturday & Sunday.

Free Entry + Picnic Blanket + Good Wine + Good Food = a very pleasant weekend indeed

http://www.nswwinefestival.com.au/cmspage.php?intid=235

Happy Weekend.

Your friends,

aroundsydney

Liven up your weekend with queer cinema, a derelict power station, cheap fancy food and a few of my favourite things!

Weekend off?

Not any more!

Here’s 3 very different things you can do to liven up your weekend a tad.

mardi gras film festival

Like mardi gras season? Enjoy watching great independent films from all around the world? win-win!

The Mardi Gras Film Festival is on for 2011 with many great films playing at various cinemas all around the city. Take a look at the website for more information

http://www.queerscreen.com.au/

open day @ white bay power station

Wanna roam around a decommissioned power plant on Saturday? Why the hells not?

Plus lunch is sorted with a sausage sizzle organised by the Lions Club.

hit it up – http://www.shfa.nsw.gov.au/sydney-Our_places_and_projects-Our_projects-Bays_Precinct-White_Bay_Power_Station_Open_Day.htm

march into merivale

The March into Merivale festival kicked off on Monday, haven’t been yet but I’ve been browsing the menu’s of the participating restaurants and it looks mighty fine. Basically what’s happening is you pay $33 for a one or two course lunch or dinner, plus a glass of wine or beer at one of Merivale’s plethora of restaurants.

Check out what’s on offer here:

http://www.marchintomerivale.com/menu.aspx

Added bonus, if you get a meal at every restaurant stamped off on your passport, you get a $100 meal voucher @ Merivale. Sweet deals!

sing-a-long sound of music

Remember those rainy Saturday afternoons spent watching Julie Andrews running around mountains, wishing you had a cute (yet sadly Nazi snitch) boy to guide you from being 16 going on 17 and begging at the TV for Captain Von Trapp to just please for the love of god TAKE MARIA BACK AS GOVERNESS! THE BARONESS IS A SKANKOVIC AND A HALF!

We all did that yeah?

Well know you can do it all again in the company of a whole theatre of people! And you get to sing all your favourite songs with them! Yay!

And apparently there’s a costume parade. Go on, you’ve got some brown paper & string lying around.

More info and tickets here – http://www.singalonga.net/australasia/index.html

Don’t forget, there’s a myriad of markets, exhibitions and club nights happening all over the city this weekend! As this blog gets going we’ll be adding more info & reviews for some of the more established weekend events around sydney.

Your friends,

aroundsydney