PHOTOGRAPHY SAMANTHA HAWKER (UNYOKED), AJ MOLLER (ANNA SPIRO) & NIKKI TO (SAINT PETER) ILLUSTRATION LARA PORTERRAISING THE BARS
Los Angeles chocolatier Compartés
is run by Jonathan Grahm, who
took over the company when he
was just 21. Grahm packs all his
favourite things into his thoroughly
textured milk, white and dark
chocolate bars – think coffee
grounds and chunks of doughnut
from LA’s finest cafés, candy-like
cereal and marshmallows – and he’s
even dabbled in kale. Wrapped in
graphic prints and inscribed with
poems written by Grahm himself,
Compartés bars are a fun-packed
Californian antidote to some of the
more painfully earnest players in the
chocolate game.compartes.comSMALL
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Sydney twin brothers Cam and
Chris Grant founded Unyoked
with small plans rather than big.
Inspired by the tiny-house
movement gathering pace in the
US, their first project is a solar-
powered, stylishly snug (read: tiny)
cabin for holiday rental on an
out-of-the-way property in the
NSW Southern Highlands, with
plans for more across the nation.
“Unyoked is for those who are
looking for that wilderness feeling,
but don’t want to trek more than
two hours from the city on a Friday
night,” Cam says. There’s space in
an Unyoked cabin for a queen bed
and a king single, a gas-powered
kitchen, hot shower (there’s a
composting toilet outside) and
a locally sourced minibar is in the
works. Bring marshmallows for
the firepit outside. unyoked.coUNYOKED, NSWTURKISH DELIGHT As we applaud the spread of vibrant, new-wave Turkish cooking in
Australia (we’re looking at you Stanbuli and Babajan), we’re pleased to see brilliant Turkish bottles
being shipped here by new importers such as Tan Sümer of Opal Wine Merchants. Wines range
from savoury dry whites and rosés made from ancient local grape varieties such as kalecik karasi to
plush modern reds made from international varieties such as merlot and shiraz. opalwines.com.au