Green Peppercorn

With its smart fitout, you'd never think this buzzy Asian eatery was part of a big Aussie pub. The restaurant with its cocktail bar and dedicated dessert bar is dead smart with a tuk tuk parked inside proving irresistible to restless kids. The food's just as sophisticated: DIY miang kham is a betel leaf bundle of explosive flavours while coarse Lao sausages are sweetly sticky, brightened with kaffir lime leaf tresses. Red duck curry is rich and complex and pork belly with water spinach is a triumph of tender meat, rendered fat and crisp skin.