Author: OutInCanberra

Culinary veterans doing great Italian

Speaking with part head chef/owner, Robert Oliver of The Haig Italian Restaurant, is like speaking with the all-knowing Yoda from Star Wars.

After numerous awards and 29 years in the industry, this veteran restaurateur – though only in experience – has been a chef for as long as he can remember, and has never come across a customer he couldn’t please.

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Dendy Premium Lounge

Win 1 of 4 Dendy Premium Lounge experiences!

Dendy Canberra would like to offer the Out in Canberra readers the chance to visit the Dendy Canberra Premium Lounge on us.

We’ve got 4 Premium Lounge Passes valid at $100 each – Including 2 doubles and a $30 food and beverage voucher valid for 12 months to any film.

The Premium Lounge Cinemas boast its own exclusive lounge bar area, full in-seat dining and bar service as well as opulent electric reclining seats – perfect match for any first class experience.

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A Vain Affair

The National Portrait Gallery of Australia will play host to Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913 – 2008 this June.

This is the first exhibition to bring together rare vintage portraits with contemporary classics from Vanity Fair and the legendary Condé Nast Archive.

Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913 – 2008 celebrates the work of master photographers Edward Steichen, Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz and Mario Testino to name a few.

Having already hit England and the USA, Canberra is the only stop nationally, for this travelling exhibition.

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Late night supper

Looking for a new place to kick back and keep warm this winter? How about heading to Kingston to experience the new Supper Club for a late night drink? Open Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday till 3am and Friday and Saturday as late as 5am, the Supper Club bustles with great tapas, wine and cocktails all night long.

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Designer Files: Shakuhachi

Like the delicate Shakuhachi flute, which looks like a very simply constructed bamboo instrument, but is painstakingly difficult to learn to play, Jessie White’s clothing label of the same name is also deceptively intricate.

Having eschewed formal fashion training, her career as a designer was born 8 years ago out of a strong desire to create necessity and instinct.

Her designs have since taken off across Australia and Japan, and the current autumn/winter collection is no exception to her winning design approach.

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