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Jack’s Creek hanger steak fritz with fries.
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Could this fancy dining room be the ambitious restaurant western Sydney needs?

In a striking curved space, Marcel Bar & Bistro is offering Penrith a menu that combines fine-dining flourishes with food for the people.

  • Terry Durack
Sticky five-spice duck breast with persimmon.

Danielle Alvarez’s glazed five-spice duck breast is guaranteed to impress

Combined with the sweet, salty and sour flavours of the glaze and accompanying persimmon relish, this is a dish that will impress anyone you serve it to.

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
“There was always the scent of cooking in the air at home.”

Celebrity chef Poh on reconnecting with her food heritage after the death of her mum

The Malaysian-Australian cook and TV presenter credits her mum’s passion for making cakes and a family love of cooking for driving her own obsessiveness in the kitchen.

  • Jane Rocca
Co-owner Dom Gattermayr is excited to have access to South Melbourne Market’s produce with her second cafe.

First look: Meet Juniper, the new South Melbourne cafe from the team behind hugely popular Florian

Smaller, more geared towards takeaway, but no less ambitious than Carlton North’s cult cafe Florian - meet your hot new southside cafe, Juniper.

  • Emma Breheny
Bea at Barangaroo has been reborn as a dual-purpose restaurant and listening bar.

Rhythm and booze: Give these four Sydney vinyl bars a spin

Come for the sounds, stay for the drinks at these new-school listening bars.

  • Amy Cooper
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Ken’s opened in April.

Pooches, people-watching and good pickles are the order of the day at Ken’s Continental in Rushcutters Bay

People come for the European-style offerings and stay for the dogs at this eastern suburbs spot.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Tacos al pastor at Frankie's Tortas & Tacos.

The Flip Side Good Food Guide Awards: casual, cool and winning eating around town

The lesser-known but equally essential Melbourne dining and drinking winners, as nominated by Good Food Guide reviewers.

  • Good Food reviewing team
The 12-metre loop of halo lighting, blue velvet banquettes and distressed, charcoal-daubed walls at Soul Dining.
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The heart and Seoul of Surry Hills

Contemporary Korean cooking as might be seen in New York or in today's Seoul.

  • Terry Durack
Dombegogi, a Jeju-style bo ssam.
14/20

Kobo is a one-man show for an audience of eight

Japanese omakase meets Korean hanjeongsik at Sydney's first high-end Korean restaurant.

  • Terry Durack
Treat yourself to a taste of Melbourne.

A foodie’s walking tour of Melbourne

Melbourne's hospitality greats give their top tips of where to go and what to order when you're wandering the streets of their beloved city.

  • Freya Herring