Would you like to try your hand at do-it-yourself tacos? Sinaloa, the newest addition to the restaurant in Double Bay is serving up some authentic Mexican cuisine with share plates and some DIY action for people who want to personally assemble their own tacos.
Opened in early March 2021, Sinaloa is managed by a full Mexican team. The head chef, Axell Torres Villa, is a veteran in the culinary industry and has worked in numerous high-end restaurants all around the globe, such as MeroToro in Mexico and Noma Kitchen in Denmark.
With the team’s expertise, Sinaloa offers its customers authentic Mexican share plates such as Wagyu Birria or Market Fish Al Ajillo, as well as the opportunity to assemble their own tacos. Starters and sides are also available such as Guacamole and their Stone Baked Quesadillas.
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Sinaloa consists of four unique spaces designed for birthdays, corporate lunches, and group gatherings: the Hacienda, the Cahita Bar, the lounge area, and the restaurant proper.
The Hacienda, an open-air courtyard that features a large selection of Mexican liquor and cocktails, serves as the bar area which occasionally features music from local DJs. Also available for booking is the lounge area which comes with a DJ booth and access to their private courtyard.
The Hacienda at Sinaloa Photo credit: Instagram/Sinaloa Sydney
On the other hand, the Cahita Bar offers a more corporate appeal, available for events, celebrations, and meetings. Last but not least is the Sinaloa restaurant proper, which offers chef Axell’s carefully curated modern Mexican menu.
The Cahita Bar at Sinaloa Photo credit: Instagram/Sinaloa Sydney
Every weekend, Sinaloa hosts Bottomless Brunch: a set brunch menu with unlimited drinks available for four people or more. On Fridays, the Hacienda courtyard and lounge area will offer disco and house music from DJs, as well as cocktails and the restaurant’s food menu.
Sinaloa can be found at 37 Bay St, Double Bay, open from Wednesday to Sunday from noon till late. For more information, visit their website. Follow their social media accounts on Facebook and Instagram for the latest updates on meals, deals, and other special announcements.
Australia’s famous chef and restaurateur, Neil Perry, is back from his brief retirement and has announced plans to open a new restaurant in an upcoming commercial and lifestyle precinct, the Pallas House in Double Bay.
After stepping back from his role as the Rockpool Dining Group’s culinary director in mid-2020, the chef revealed that his new and still-unnamed restaurant will serve as the anchor tenant of the low-rise building that will be constructed on 30 to 36 Bay Street in the leafy eastern Sydney suburb.
In an feature with the project developer, Fortis, Mr Perry said that he wants to “create one of the world’s best neighbourhood dining experiences,” where locals would love to hang out or meet as often as they’d like.
Mr Perry envisions a simple but high-quality fit-out, with about 178 seats, and has enlisted Caon Studios and ACME for the design and development. Longterm, the experienced restaurateur won’t just open a new restaurant but a “Double Bay institution” loved by locals and visitors from all over the world.
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This will be Mr Perry’s solo venture after 40 years. Post-COVID, Fortis believes that his venue will help Double Bay’s resurgence.
Meanwhile, Pallas House is set for completion in April 2021 and has also secured chef Damien Monley, who will open an all-day dining eatery. Much of the building will be rented out to commercial establishments, with Pallas Capital occupying the top two floors.
Are you a single dog owner in search of a human partner in life? Is your dog in need of company, too? Dating with Dogs might help you find a kindred spirit whilst your precious pup makes friends.
Organised by The Social Dog Company, Dating with Dogs will take place on Sunday, the 23rd of June 2019, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at The Golden Sheaf on New South Head Road.
Meet people whom you already have something in common with — a love for dogs — and spend an afternoon hanging out with like-minded individuals, whilst your dogs play with each other. If you currently don’t have a pup but you love to be around dogs and humans, you’re free to come to this social event, too!
Tickets to this dating event are at $39. You can also book in advance for the Dating with Dogs meet up in July at the same place and time.
Dating can be quite a challenge in today’s digital-centric world where dating sites are littered with fake profiles. At this event, dog lovers will be assured of a great time even before they go. Because who can resist those charming pups, right?
Pamper yourself with a luxurious browcation at the newly opened Amy Jean Privée, located at The InterContinental Hotel Sydney Double Bay!
It takes a little work to achieve sophisticated and perfectly shaped brows. In fact, eyebrows today are considered to be more of an art form than just a simple add-on.
Luckily, Australia’s brow queen herself, Amy Jean, decided to open a salon at Double Bay that is ideal for her clientele who want to experience a luxurious ‘browcation’ without having the need to travel far away from the Eastern suburbs.
Amy Jean Privée Double Bay
The Amy Jean Privéesalon is placed inside a hyper-luxe private suite of a five-star hotel for an ultimate eyebrow couture experience. This discrete yet sophisticated beauty haven is exclusively tailored for Amy Jean’s VIP clientele.
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Upon entering the suite, you will surely notice its splendid interiors that exude an aura of both decadence and femininity. Fresh flowers and scented candles are placed in majority of the tables and nooks of the suite that enhance the room’s airy and light-filled mood. Two treatment beds in adjoining rooms are also found inside the spacious suite.
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Services offered in this luxurious salon include brow sculpt, henna brows, feather touch and mist brow tattoo, lash extensions, keratin brow and lash treatments, forever lash liner, lip tint tattoo, skin needling, and eye elevate plasma tightening.
Apart from these services, Amy Jean also offers her Amy Jean Privée Collection, a selection of brow products, on Net-a-Porter.
The Amy Jean Privée Double Bay is strictly by appointment only. Click here to know more about the salon’s one-of-a-kind Privée Experience.
Amy Jean started off with a single brow boutique in 2004 at Gold Coast, an area that does not have much salons that offer the same services as Amy Jean’s. Upon its opening, the boutique hit off easily given the highly rated reviews shared by its loyal customers.
Soon, word of her skills and expertise in eyes and brows spread. Amy Jean’s services became highly in demand.
She then found herself having a number of influential and wealthy clients coming from all over the world.
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At present, Amy Jean has three outlets in Sydney, and one in Brisbane, Melbourne, and Gold Coast. She also travels to London every eight weeks to service her eminent European clientele.
Gladswood House, also called Glenyarrah and Seaford House, is a two-storey Gothic Revival residential mansion located in 11 Gladswood Gardens at Double Bay. It’s a heritage-listed property which, today, houses multiple occupants.
The main house’s features include:
The building stands on a property that stretches to three acres of land with its original stone gate pillars entrance facing the New South Head Road. In 1927, however, the land was subdivided into 14 blocks with the original residence assigned on Lot 6.
an entry vestibule leading to several adjoining rooms
Additional renovations over the years extended the house to include more cloakrooms and bath, more verandahs and drawing rooms, a boudoir, a study, and the house manager’s flat.
This building was part of the Point Piper Estate owned by New South Wales Corps Captain John Piper in the 1820s. Faced with financial difficulties, Capt Piper sold the property to philanthropist and politician Daniel Cooper. Following his death, Mr Cooper bestowed the property to his nephew, also named Daniel.
The younger Copper leased the property for 99 years to Edwin Thomas Beilby in 1856. Two years later, Beilby sold his leasehold to Samuel Deane Gordon, who decided to build a mansion by the waterfront.
Building Glenyarrah
In 1862, Mr Gordon enlisted architect William Munro to build Gladswood House, then known as Glenyarrah. Newspaper records show that Mr Munro advertised the job for stonemasons for the site with The Sydney Morning Herald.
Construction of the two-storey sandstone structure took two years. The design of the house had a slate roof with Tudor chimneys and a fireplace reminiscent of 14th century England. The building also had two wings and a verandah with large window bays.
Gladswood House was originally named the Seaford House during construction. It was later changed to Glenyarrah when Mr Gordon and his family moved in.
Mr Gordon stayed at Gladswood House until 1882. His monogram is set on the panels of the stained glass windows that brighten the lobby of the main stairs. He left the property to his daughter Jessie Maria Gordon upon his death in 1882.
But since Ms Gordon lived in England with her husband, Gladswood House was leased to Francis Bothamley Lark, and later to Thomas Hussey Kelly of the Sydney Smelting Co. The latter would eventually buy the property from Ms Gordon and leave the house to his son, Sydney-born Thomas Herbert Kelly, upon his death.
From Glenyarrah to Glasswood
By 1913, however, the younger Kelly would sell the property to Melbourne local Mr John Spencer Brunton of the family that founded the Australian Flour Mills. It was he who changed the name of Glenyarrah to Gladswood House.
Mr John Spencer Brunton changed the name of Glenyarrah to Gladswood House. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Aside from the name change, Brunton would also make drastic renovations and additions to Gladswood House by hiring architect Howard Joseland, who favoured the “Queen Anne Style” — characterized by wide porches, shadowed entrances and lobbies, and brickwork with softer finish — to Munson’s Gothic inspirations.
The words “Brunton” and Gladswood” were carved on the floors of the house’s main lobby entrance during this massive renovation.
Following the new developments, Gladswood House would then be a distinguished house in Double Bay, popular for its social events and parties, such as the wedding of Mr Brunton’s son to Mr Joseland’s daughter.
The guests during one of the parties at Gladswood House. Photo Credit: Arthur Wigram Allen/Wikimedia Commons
Upon Brunton’s death, Frederick Louis Perini, a builder from Rose Bay, took ownership of the house and turned it into a residential site for multiple occupancies in 1937. Gwendoline Jean Von Tidermann and later, Ray William Stafford and Hannah Maria Stafford, took a lease on the house and managed it as a guest house or private hotel until 1988.
In 1990, Coronet Investments, headed by Ian Joye, built three two-storey apartments with three bedrooms to the west of the original house.
In 1999, New South Wales government listed Gladswood House as a heritage site, one of the very few examples of the work of Mr Munro. It’s also a popular landmark in Double Bay and one of the oldest examples of a house with Gothic and colonial influences in NSW.
Another reason that it was listed as a heritage site was that it had many occupants of significant importance to the business, political and cultural history the region and Australia. Additionally, the renovations and alterations done to the house displayed the craftsmanship of noted Australian builders.
