Dani Valent
Food writer and restaurant reviewer
Dani Valent is a food writer and restaurant reviewer.
- Review
- Maribyrnong
It’s a shop, it’s a restaurant, it’s a phenomenon: You could easily spend half a day at Asian megastore Foodle
Highpoint’s new supermarket-sized Asian grocer includes live seafood tanks, a premium butcher, sushi counter and oyster bar, Chinese barbecue restaurant, bakery, dumpling factory and canteen-style dining hall.
- Dani Valent
Four of Australia’s best chefs take the supermarket chook challenge
Top chefs bedazzle a bachelor’s handbag, creating a recipe using just five ingredients plus pantry staples.
- Dani Valent
Tiny Fitzroy grill bar Mono-XO sizzles its last skewer (but stay tuned for what’s next)
The charcoal grills are no longer glowing at the 20-seat hangout tucked into a terrace off Smith Street.
- Dani Valent
- Review
- East Melbourne
Is it OK to put pineapple on pizza? If it’s Roccella’s smoky spin, yes
The version at this East Melbourne Italian restaurant is a sweet-salty-sour-smoky argument-stopper.
- Dani Valent
- Review
- Geelong
Pork belly, pipis, parma: Ambergris’ menu straddles new and old Geelong (and pub and restaurant)
There’s safety in the elevated chicken parma, meanwhile other plates showcase modern Asian flavours from the chef’s time at Coda and Tonka.
- Dani Valent
‘It makes me dry retch’: Are truffle oils and salts ever worth splashing out on?
We’ve hit peak truffle season. So, how do you know what products are worth splashing your hard-earned cash on and which ones should be left on the shelf?
- Dani Valent
- Review
- Footscray
Melbourne’s smallest restaurant serves a ‘transfixing’ set menu to four guests at a time
If you thought Taylor Swift tickets were tricky, try booking a seat at Footscray four-seater Matsu.
- Dani Valent
Eight of Melbourne’s best (proper) French bistros for Bastille Day and beyond
Is a bistro still a bistro if it has bread plates?
- Dani Valent
- Review
- Box Hill
We lift the lid on a hidden yum cha treasure in Box Hill (and its golden ‘quicksand’ buns)
Dani Valent discovers a bustling yum cha palace in a hotel. Here’s what to order from the 60-item menu.
- Dani Valent
- Review
- West Melbourne
Icon review: Not much has changed in 63 years at old-school Italian restaurant Amiconi (aside from the tiramisu)
It’s all about consistency, and a bedrock belief in sincere hospitality, at this old-school restaurant.
- Dani Valent