Category Archive: food

Photo Gallery: Brick Lane graffiti

Somethingyousaid.com takes in the street-art (and tasty snacks) of London’s East-End:  At some point during 1999 when I lived in London, a friend introduced me to the “Beigel Shop” on Brick Lane and… Read More →

A vegetarian’s guide to Barcelona

Somethingyousaid.com’s Koren Helbig gives a heads-up on the best places to get your vegetarianism on in Barca: So you’re a herbivore, dreaming of a visit to sunny and meat-obsessed Spain… but just a little… Read More →

How to survive Winter Wonderland

When Dean Martin sang ‘Walking in a Winter Wonderland’ all those years ago, I’m 100% certain he did not have the annual Hyde Park festivities in mind; hundreds of overpriced Bratwurst stalls, stands… Read More →

Christmas gift ideas #1: Jack Daniel’s

December. That magical time of the year where you’re obliged to spend countless hours in a heaving mall, battling against fellow mega-stressed consumers in a bid to complete your Christmas shopping in as… Read More →

Vote in the 2013 SMAC Awards

Being award winners ourselves at somethingyousaid.com (did we mention that? Oh yeah, only like a gazillion times), we know how rockin in feels to be recognised and appreciated for one’s art. So we’re… Read More →

A foreigner’s survival guide to Thanksgiving

Isidore Tillers might be an Aussie, but that won’t stop her celebrating Thanksgiving:   Thanksgiving obviously isn’t an Australian tradition or holiday but, as my double-bassist boyfriend hails from Albuquerque New Mexico, I’ve… Read More →

Food: MeatLiquor is great fun

Burger joints are more popular than ever these days and are cropping up all over the place to allow hungry carnivores to fill their cake holes with premium beef products. MeatLiquor, which already… Read More →

Win a Menulog takeaway voucher

It’s a familiar experience… checking the cupboards at dinnertime to discover nothing but one packet of Mi Goreng and an overripe banana. So what do you do? Trudge all the way to the supermarket… Read More →

Kinder, Star Wars & forced perspective

Imagine if Yoda landed in Australia today? Would he head to Circular Quay? Check out all those hippy-dippy shops in Newtown? What about if Darth Vader found himself Downunder? What would he do? To… Read More →

Food: Olly tries out Bert’s Pies

Somethingyousaid.com’s Oliver Heath samples the latest pie offerings: A few years back I snuck into the ATP musicians’ afterparty and a friend boasted that Nick Cave had just asked him where to get… Read More →

Opinion: Elfy Scott on veganism

Average Joe Veganism and why the Naysayers can Fuck Right Off. I would consider myself a thoroughly devoted follower of something I like to refer to as ‘average Joe veganism’. I’m unfaltering in… Read More →

Restaurant review: L’Autre Pied

The internet is currently awash with voucher sites and offers such as groupon, vouchercloud, time-out etc, that provide fantastic deals on eating out at hugely discounted prices. I picked up one of these… Read More →