by Dave Hukka | Apr 18, 2017 | Restaurants
When lawyer Zan Kaufman quit her day job and left New York in 2012, she cooked up a tasty idea that’s since turned into a booming burger business called Bleecker St. Named after a popular thoroughfare in downtown Manhattan, Zan’s burger joints and food trucks are now...
by Dave Hukka | Apr 10, 2017 | Restaurants
In the wilderness, nobody wants to come face-to-face with a hungry bear. But on the streets of Lidcombe, people flock to The Hungry Bear every morning for their daily coffee fix. In a short space of time, the hip new Lidcombe shipping container cafe has become a...
by Dave Hukka | Mar 13, 2017 | Restaurants
A design competition has inspired Israeli interior designer Liat Eliav to bring her winning shipping container cafe design to life. Known simply as The Container, the mobile coffee shop was built in just five weeks. The sustainable architecture competition is run by...
by Dave Hukka | Feb 16, 2017 | Restaurants
The bright yellow exterior of Austin-based Burro Cheese Kitchen is a dead giveaway of what’s cooking inside. And in case the colour of the pop-up shipping container cafe isn’t enough, the name spells it out: this place is all about cheese. Balkan burro cheese (known...
by Dave Hukka | Jan 23, 2017 | Restaurants
With its reputation for sky-high rents, New York City is a tough place to set up shop. As mayoral candidate Jimmy McMillan famously put it: The rents are too damn high! But New York entrepreneurs aren’t letting the city’s exorbitant rents get in the way of business...
by Dave Hukka | Jan 11, 2017 | Bars, Restaurants
The eternal search for Australia’s most innovative eateries often leads to Melbourne and Sydney. But West Australian hospitality trailblazers Hamish Fleming and Siobhan Blumann put Fremantle on the foodie map when they opened Propeller in 2014. Fashioned from a...