Doughnuts, sour cream salmon roe and chives, Cutler & Co
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Maybe you don’t expect doughnuts at a fine-diner, but then Cutler & Co doesn’t do same-same. You’ll find these crisp-fried choux “doughnuts” in the splendidly revived front bar. Ripped open and topped with sour cream and briny salmon roe, they have all the fat, salt, acid and crunch a bar snack needs. Where’s that second bottle?
Cutler & Co, 55-57 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Vic, (03) 9419 4888
MAGGIE SCARDIFIELD, NEWS EDITOR
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The Ghesh Bowl, Mecca

Specialty coffee isn’t the only thing boosting mornings at Mecca. Fermented vegetables and pickled cucumber sit alongside avocado and a dukkah-crusted poached egg in this zingy breakfast bowl. It’s as light and bright as the café-roastery that serves it.
Mecca, 26 Bourke Rd, Alexandria, NSW, (02) 9698 8448.
HARRIET DAVIDSON, EDITORIAL COORDINATOR
Tiger prawns, zhoug, kipflers, egg, Propeller
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When it comes to Levantine flavours out west, Kurt Sampson is in a class of his own, updating tradition with ease. Case in point: an entrée of grilled prawns, boiled egg and potato bound by zhoug, a smoky Yemeni chilli sauce.
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Propeller, 222 Queen Victoria St, North Fremantle, WA, (08) 9335 9366.
MAX VEENHUYZEN, WESTERN AUSTRALIA EDITOR
Cherry clafoutis with honey kefir cream, Franklin

Tasmania produces the last of Australia’s cherries – what better way to savour the late-season bounty in situ than in a clafoutis made in a heavy skillet, topped with a kefir cream shot through with Miellerie honey?
Franklin, 30 Argyle St, Hobart, Tas, (03) 6234 3375
PAT NOURSE, MANAGING EDITOR
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