My favourite things in July

1. Cow & Moon
This takes the TOP spot, this month and the month before and the one before that. It's no secret, locals have known about this hot-to-trot gelato bar long before The Sydney Royal Easter Show crowned them many a GOLD AND waaay before The Sydney Magazine dubbed them gelato royalty. It's our late night secret, dashes to get a few scoops of creamy, delightful gelato. Yes, the 'lime in the coconut' is pretty-damn-tastic. Our picks are the 'salty caramel banana' or the 'after dinner mint' or the ' malto bliss' aka mars bar. Or the 'panacotta'. Well, you get the drift. This place is the shit, you'll go GAGA for the gelato too.

181 Enmore Rd (Cnr London St), Enmore (opposite the Enmore Theatre)

























 2. Grandma's Bar
My grandma isn't this hip but she doe's live in a place much bigger than this new small bar. Pint-sized with exposed brick walls, yellow retro wallpaper, hot mulled wine with fan-dangle jaffles - it's small in size but large in attitude. Jam-packed at 6pm, you're gonna have to be in-it-to-win-it or merely willing to play a some-musical-chairs 'cause it's the HOT SPOT Sydneysiders are loving. The vibe is relaxed the staff very friendly, the drink list - oh yeah - not so small at all.  If only it has grandpa's next door?!

275 Clarence St, Sydney (behind QVB)

























3. Siphons at Single Origin Sideshow
Didn't you know lattes are so nineteen nineties? It's all about the smooth, crisp taste of a siphon coffee. A 1950s contraption brought back into the coffee world to make our taste buds dance with the REAL bean taste. Hot water carefully siphoned from bottom section through the coffee in the top section then back down to the bottom section over a flame. Don't ask how it works, we failed physics BUT we do know the taste is smooth and clean - the milk can find another home elsewhere. Try it. The barista boys surely will look after you.

60-64 Resevoir St, Surry Hills