Byron Shire Echo issue 37.16 – September 28, 2022
The Byron Shire Echo‘s Good Taste eating out guide is a comprehensive, convenient listing of restaurants, cafes and dining venues in the Byron Shire and beyond. Looking for good food and a place to eat out? Find it quickly and easily here.
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Good Life articles
Just us, with the wild goat
Simon Haslam I don’t know if you can recall one of those luminous moments in your life when it just seemed to be you, perhaps with a loved one or group of friends, in a magical connected space. Perhaps a...
Lambruk Pantry
Simon Haslam Lambruk Pantry is a family-owned local gourmet providore based in the heart of the Byron Shire. If you’re looking for something classy, that’s also healthy and made right here, they’re right on the mark. They have a huge range...
Oliver’s happy hens
‘If you can look after fifty chickens’, Oliver tells me, ‘you might as well look after 500.’ In between a steady stream of customers and friends, I’m chatting to Oliver Bora at his stall. Now in his early twenties,...
Wahlburgers in Byron
Walking into Wahlburgers on Sunday arvo, the sun was shining, the staff were smiling, there was a nice vibe and from our table we had a view of Jonson St from the deck above Woolworths – the experience was...
A Forest of excellence
Forest Byron Bay, a restaurant by Crystalbrook Collection, has won the Regional Contemporary Australian Restaurant – Formal category at the 2022 NSW Australia Restaurant & Catering Hostplus Awards (R&CA) for Excellence. Jordan Rodgers, General Manager, Crystalbrook Byron, says he is...
Monty’s: strawberries and insanity
‘Strawberries are insanely amazing,’ I hear Dave (‘Monty’) tell one customer. Regarding his punnets – three sizes, family, medium, and small – of joyously radiantly red, perfectly proportioned berries, who am I to argue? For over thirty years Dave has...
AZTECA margarita mix
WANTED: Fun-loving person to spend two years eating tacos and sampling margaritas in Mexico with same. I’d answer that kind of ad. And let’s face it, wouldn’t you like to give that a go? If so, then you’re the sort...
Spring now: Barrio Eatery & Bar
Simon Haslam Barrio Eatery & Bar follows the seasons and, with the weather warming up, spring is the perfect time for the team to change it up and put a new style of cooking into action. At this time of...
Great soil at Summit
Victoria Cosford Creative writing was what Ryan Bruin had his heart set on. He had planned to go to university to pursue it, except that he started working on his parents’ farm as a ‘gap’ – and, in his words,...
The Honey Wagon
Garry Rodgers may be a man of nine lives. He’s already been through two, having died twice, once in the States and the second time doing what he now does best, moving his bees from Lennox Head back to Newrybar and getting stung in the process. ‘I get stung all the time,’ he says with the philosophy of a man who’s stared death in the face. This time, however, he went into anaphylactic shock and was rushed to hospital to be resuscitated.
