Top Five Review Posts for 2012

2012 saw the birth of my blog.  My love of food is somewhat hereditary.  That combined with my experience in the hospitality industry has created an obsession with food and my desire to review it.

The seed for me to review food was planted about a year prior to my first blog post when I was in New York with my friend.  We were dining at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant at The London in NYC when over the meal I started to critique our entire dining experience.  It was fun and my friend was very encouraging of my review.

It took me the next months to manifest how I was going to turn this passion of reviewing into a reality.  After a night out at Masons of Bendigo I was completely inspired and woke at five am the following morning with the desire to write about what I had experienced.  It all just came out of me so easily and so ‘Food for You Reviews’ was created.

Ironically Masons of Bendigo is the most read post of 2012.  Mason’s have had an incredible year.  They were very new on the scene and doing a fabulous job for dining in regional Victoria.  Since my review they won the State Award in the Golden Plate Awards outshining the Ballarat and Geelong regions.

Masons of Bendigo

The second most read blog post was the Red Velvet Cake post.   After my first experience with this delight in New York City at Magnolia Bakery, I was delighted when I arrived to a friend’s birthday party to a beautiful Red Velvet Cake made from the Magnolia Bakery recipe.

Coming in at number three was my first instalment of The Sweetest Thing series.  This series was a nine part series inspired by the women in my family sharing their most favourite sweet recipe.  This post told the story of my inspiration and shared my mother in laws golden syrup dumpling recipe.

Fourth was my post on Proud Mary’s in Collingwood.  This was one of my favourite posts to write.  It was one of the only posts I wrote live in the venue.  I love the vibe in PM’s they truly do rock it!

Proud Mary's

Finally, at number five was my post on the Chefs of the Future Cooking Competition.   This post is very dear to my heart as it’s about a cooking completion I started for apprentice chefs in Mildura a decade ago.  I was asked to speak at the 10-year anniversary.  Such an honor and a thrill.

So there you go, the top five most read posts for 2012 on the Food for You Reviews blog.  I have enjoyed writing my blog immensely and am excited to bring you plenty of positive, constructive, fun food reviews in 2013.

Thank you for reading friends. xx