Foodie News and Restaurant Industry Trends

Ardyn Bernoth, national Good Food Editor.

Editor's letter: Staying connected in a world without diners

We now live in a world where restaurants are closed to diners, a devastating turn of events in an unprecedented global crisis.

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A bi-monthly gin subscription should get your Quarantinis shaking.

These food and drink subscription services will get you through self-isolation

These food and drink subscriptions offer bespoke, handpicked artisan produce delivered straight to your door weekly or monthly, all you have to do is get up to sign the package for the postie.

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Theodore's restaurant owner Lily Stokes and Northside Fruit and Vege's Kim Driver are saving farm produce from being ...

While supermarket shelves are empty, farm produce is stuck in limbo

Restaurateur Lily Stokes is helping farmers by selling produce boxes to customers who can't find what they need at the shops.

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Empty tables at a restaurant in Circular Quay in Sydney, on Saturday.

Can we come back from a restaurant depression?

Perhaps what we should have been doing is putting more pressure on the government to close down restaurants sooner.

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Mrs Singh in the CBD are offering 30 per cent off takeaway curry orders.

What Melbourne's restaurants are doing in response to the coronavirus pandemic

This evolving list covers hospitality businesses offering something different, from takeaway menus to home-meal kits to grocery boxes.

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Spend your solo social-distancing in the company of some of the best food commentators.

Eight food and drink podcasts to keep you occupied

Social-distancing doesn't have to be lonely. Here are a bunch of great food and drink podcasts to keep you informed, inspired, or just take your mind off things for an hour or two.

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Chef Shane Delia in his newest venue, Maha Bar in Collingwood, which will temporarily close.

Melbourne's top restaurants close doors to weather coronavirus pandemic storm

'I'm up for a fight, but this is a massacre,' says chef Shane Delia, who is putting his Maha restaurants on hiatus.

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Hannah Green, from Etta in Lygon Street, has been testing dishes for delivery.

Etta test drives dishes to see how food fares on a delivery trip

With diners staying at home, Hannah Green and her staff at Brunswick restaurant Etta are making sure a car trip doesn’t wreck their lovingly prepared meals.