In town for the sales and looking for someplace new and different to eat, shop or visit? Let the TDN help! Following up on our popular Best Bets on the Jersey Shore series during Breeders' Cup week, TDN subscribers now regularly recommend dining and shopping options to our out-of-town readers.

Balzac (Newmarket, NSW, AUS - Dining)

141 Belmore Road
Phone: +61 2 93999660
Web: www.restaurantbalzac.com.au
(Tuesday-Sunday)

Balzac is just five minutes from the sales complex and is rated one of Sydney's best eating spots. Owned and run by Chef Matthew Kemp and his wife, Balzac learns towards a French flavour without the huge price tag. Matthew likes cooking with game, so if rabbit takes your fancy you will love the terrine of rabbit, quail and foie gras with liver cream, leeks and radish as an entree. I am a big fan of the stuffed confit pork belly with shaved cuttlefish, chorizo, chickpeas and capsicums. If you can fit dessert in after that, you are a better eater than I am! Great wine list and terrific staff make Balzac the ideal spot to graze after a hard day's work at the Inglis sales.

-- Jonathan D'Arcy (Inglis director & Randwick resident)

To see the original PDF with all the writeups from 4/19/08 (Inglis Easter Yearling Sale), click here.

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