They're certainly serious about their food. Like good cinema or literature, they take us out of ourselves to another, more pleasurable place, and leave a lingering glow of contentment. Circa is indisputably such a place. Nobody loves good food more than I do, but I have to say, the person who wrote that got carried away. Shopping for baking apples takes a connoisseur's eye, and making a flaky pie dough is a skill that not everyone can master.
Food is definitely vita.
Eating a truly great meal closely resembles another activity even more popular than reading or going to the movies, which gives intense pleasure and leaves you with a lingering glow of contentment. And if there's any place where food gives sex a run for its money, it's Oz. Here is my completely scientific and carefully researched list of favorite restaurants in Sydney and Melbourne, with the proviso that another list with a completely different set of names might be just as good. The cliche of the open kitchen is multiplied here, with smoke plumes and leaping flames on one side, a baker decorating a cake on the other. But somehow it works.