Welcome, and thanks for visiting Sharking for Chips and Drinks. We are a food and travel writer-photographer team, originally from London, now based in Melbourne.
We both have day jobs, but when we aren’t committed to the 9 till 5 grind we regularly contribute to a number of food and travel publications and websites in Australia and overseas, including:
Beer and Brewer magazine and The Ultimate Beer Guide
Melbourne Coffee Review handbook, website and iPhone app
Food and Drink guides covering London, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire
Elite Traveler magazine (US and Asia market luxury travel)
Gap Daemon website (international backpacker travel)
Currently we have a number of commissions in the pipeline. We have been featured in The Age’s Epicure supplement several times, most notably within a cover story focusing on Melbourne’s lunchtime dining scene. See for yourself here. After a very successful 2012, we started this year on a high when it was announced we had won the Expedia Blogger of the Year Competition – this means we have even more exciting adventures coming up in the next few months.
While we are currently living in Melbourne, we regularly return to our beloved London and have a very global view – this year will see us head to Italy, Japan and Korea in search of gourmet gems.
Comments and suggestions are welcome, either here on the site or via Twitter @shark4chipdrink
You can also see what’s floating our boat at the moment with Facebook, Pinterest at shark4chipdrink or Instagram at shark4chipdrink
Thanks again for taking the time to read, love Sharky
Hi there – love the look of your blog!
Thought you may be keen to check out the new cocktail bar that has opened within The Millswyn called Bar 132. Born out of the love of the hidden (and also named after the space left between the address 131-133 Domain Road, South Yarra) it’s mixing up some amazing, unique and delicious cocktails.
You might also be keen to visit The Millswyn itself that has been recently transformed from its predecessor Lynches and serving neo-French cuisine by chef Nathan Johnson.
love to get your thoughts.
Hi there
Thanks so much for getting in touch – the Millswyn is somewhere I had been intending to visit for some time, but the addition of the bar gives me all the more reason! Love the pictures on the website – reminds me of a place I used to go to in London. Really nice to find an intimate bar that serves good cocktails (especially now Der Raum is going to be a private members bar).
El Gordo invites you to Bendifo again!
Let me just say that I will definitely be passing through town again and will be in touch with you in the near future!
Good Afternoon,
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I recently came across http://sharkingforchipsanddrinks.com and saw that there are some articles about the Summer Olympics 2012. I was wondering: do you accept guest posts on this topic? I would like to write about Chinese athlete stars in London Olympics 2012, so it would be a perfect fit for your blog and I would get a chance to introduce our article series first article here: http://www.yoybuy.com/en/blogdetail.html?id=60032).
I have prepared a topic and I would like to offer to you: “Liu Xiang will keep on Fighting for Rio Olympics 2016 after the accidents in 2008 and 2012″, if you have any other recommendation, please let me know, i am pleased to write about it.
All the Best!