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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
Milk bar vibes at Larrie’s at The Beach Hotel.

These are the best places to eat, drink (and dine barefoot) in Newcastle

All you need to know for a weekend of long lunches, cold beer and cocktails in the Steel City.

  • Callan Boys and Sarah Norris
Lobster dish from the main restaurant on Azamara Pursuit.

Celebrity chefs, steakhouses and seafood: Six cruise lines with outstanding food

Cruise ships are introducing smaller venues and more specialised cuisines to suit a new generation of food-savvy passengers. Here are six of the best.

  • Brian Johnston
Uluru in the distance covered by cloud as guests gather for Field of Light.

Some of cruising’s most spectacular food experiences aren’t on the sea at all

From dinner under the stars at Uluru to foraging for wild plants in Iceland, Silversea’s onshore excursions are taking cruise dining to unexpected new heights.

  • Sarah Norris
Drinks writer Katie Spain conducting a wine masterclass on board the Cunard Great Australian Culinary Voyage in early 2024.

Five things I wish I knew before my food and wine cruise

Arrive thirsty, hungry and prepared to try anything, Katie Spain advises.

  • Katie Spain
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Good Food’s essential guide to the best cruise dining and drinks

From the best food and drink on the high seas to clever drink collabs, here’s the gourmet guide to great cruising.

One of the drinks available via The Macallan Diamond Bar Cart on Oceania Cruises’s Vista liner.

Cruise ships up their drinks game with clever spirit and beer collabs

A whisky’s being aged using the sea’s motion to help impart barrel flavours; a navy strength gin by Four Pillars and a Lord Nelson beer called Smooth Sailing.

  • Sarah Norris
Samesyn

The new Torquay restaurant where printed menus and cling film are banned

Profits are donated, food waste becomes clever plates, menus aren’t printed and cling film is banned. The new Samesyn is trying a radical new model for fine-dining.

  • Emma Breheny
Buxton trout is dressed with ginger and spring onions, Cantonese-style.

Three exciting new restaurants that will change the way you think about regional dining

Full-tilt Thai in Geelong, Chinese at a winery and more new flavours in unexpected Victorian locations to add to your Victorian dining hit list.

  • Emma Breheny

Can I fly domestic with a bottle of champagne in my hand luggage?

Airlines insist you don’t pack anything with the potential to explode, but can you bring bubble-wrapped bubbly onboard?

  • Huon Hooke