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Bridge Road Brewers’ menu champions pizza topped with local ingredients.

These are the best places to eat, drink (and scoff pizza) in buzzing Rutherglen and surrounds

Talented producers are adding lustre to this charming high country gold rush town and its surrounds.

  • Jane Fraser
The interior at Maggie’s Snacks and Liquor, Brunswick East.
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This under-the-radar newcomer is one of Melbourne’s best cocktail bars right now

Bloody delicious cocktails. Hyper-elevated bar snacks. Friendly staff. All this wine bar needs is a crowd.

  • Besha Rodell
Tiramisu from Grill Americano.

These are the best restaurant dishes the Good Food team ate this year (and yes, there’s tiramisu)

Hundreds of great plates were consumed around Victoria in 2023, all in the name of research, of course. These were the ones that made us sit up and pay attention.

  • The Good Food team
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Dukkah-crusted salmon with sweet and sour braised red cabbage

This super simple tray bake packed with nutrients and flavour thanks to colourful wedges of red cabbage, red wine vinegar, spices and fresh herbs.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook

This welcoming gem is like a bar sliced from a small street in Italy, France or Spain… but in Newtown

Small bar, kissing booth, drinks under the stars: warm and welcoming Huelo has something for every mood.

  • Lenny Ann Low
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Emelia Jackson’s egg custard tart.

Emelia Jackson’s egg custard tart with quince puree

The only thing better than an egg custard tart is an egg custard tart with a layer of delicately spiced quince puree at its core.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Emelia Jackson
Bosco opened in Newstead in September.

Brisbane’s best restaurant openings of 2023

From resplendent steakhouses and hidden CBD diners to classics reborn and the return of a high-profile Brisbane-born chef, here’s what to check out this summer.

  • Matt Shea
Clockwise from top left: Clams casino, crumpets and Ora King salmon gravalax at Bistro George in Sydney.

And the finalists for the SMH Good Food Guide New Restaurant of the Year are...

The full list of SMH Good Food Guide’s New Restaurant of the Year finalists, revealed (and three of them are in the “former ghost town”).

  • Bianca Hrovat
Pulpo escondido (grilled octopus on chintextle paste with huitlacoche and tostada) with chile relleno (poblano chilli stuffed with shiitake picadillo over mole verde).
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There’s only one thing that’s predictable about this new regional Mexican restaurant in Glebe

You don’t need to go to Mexico to taste Oaxacan food and mezcal. The flavours of the Pacific-facing region are now as close as Glebe.

  • Terry Durack
Quince, dhal and chickpeas cooked in the pressure cooker.

The pressure cooker pressure test: We put the appliance through its paces

Dani Valent prepares and compares pea and ham soup, chickpeas, steamed rice, dhal and slow-cooked quinces.

  • Dani Valent