Food News

Expect quality over quantity next time you pop in for a bite between shopping sprees.

Each Wednesday night chefs Scott Huggins and Emma McCaskill push culinary boundaries.

A five day pop up produce market in the heart of the CBD.

American-style snacks and a Blade Runner-inspired fit-out combine at Collingwood’s newest restaurant.

Samu, a custom-built pop-up matcha teahouse, has opened inside Supernormal on Melbourne’s Flinders Lane.

Tasting Australia festival was a hit in 2016, here’s our wrap of the highlights.

New names dominate the line-up of this year’s food and wine festival.

Pablo Tordesillas has opened a Spanish-leaning restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

Two weeks of hands-on workshops with Australia’s baristas and roasters.

Ex-Wasabi chef Hajime Horiguchi's new restaurant focuses on fresh local produce and seafood cooked over a charcoal grill.

From dry-aged mutton to whole pheasant – when it comes time to warm the cockles, what do the country’s best butchers like to slow-cook, roast and confit?

The Urban Purveyor Group’s national expansion begins this week.

Terzini's newest masterpiece has opened. The team shows us around.

Top Sydney chefs are already fans of Berkelo’s slow-fermented sourdough. And soon, you can take it home yourself.

Does it actually taste “raw”? How does it froth? How does it hold up in a cuppa? We take Made by Cow’s cold pressed milk for a test drive.

From joints of meat roasted over charcoal to sandpit-fired coffee, Marrickville makes way for a new eastern Mediterranean restaurant.

Join us for a Moorish-flavoured dinner at Nathan Sasi’s new Sydney basement restaurant, Mercado.

Adelaide’s well-known Africola will reopen this month with a new flavour behind it.

The ex-Café Paci chef will cook for one night next week.

Rodney Dunn has done it again, this time, with truffles.

Longsong, a Thai-influenced grill and bar on the first floor of Longrain, will open in November.

The ex-Berta chef returns to Sydney with Sri Lankan street food.

Collaboration and couverture are the magic ingredients in these rich truffles.

This Tasmanian harvester hand-picks vitamin-filled seaweed, sustainably removing non-native species from the ecosystem.

From frying to finishing, olive oil has proved itself indispensable. In this drill-down guide, we reveal the trade tricks behind your pantry’s number one staple: liquid gold.

The family and accidental restaurateurs behind MoVida, Lee Ho Fook and Pei Modern are reshaping Melbourne dining.

A new cookware store full of beautiful yet practical things for the home and kitchen opens in Collingwood.

A French bistro with a modern spin opens this week on Melbourne’s Collins Street.

Gourmet Traveller journeys by Abercrombie & Kent head to the culturally rich and diverse destinations of Sri Lanka and the mighty Mekong River this year.

Clayton Wells shares recipes from Sydney's Automata, translating fine-dining food to an easy-going lunch with friends.

Part of our Gourmet Institute series for 2016 is chef Ben Williamson, a master of modern Middle Eastern cuisine.

Saint Peter will champion the best of Australian seafood.

In this world there are two types of relationships: those that are easy and those that take work. The same applies to vegetables.

This classic Aussie breakfast is hard to muck up, but a good one can be exceptional. Here are a few of our favourites.

George Calombaris’s ever-expanding Greek empire has now reached the city’s west.

It’s the International Year of Pulses – what better time to applaud the magic of beans, asks Paulette Whitney.

The quest to find Australia’s best bacon is a serious – and sizzling – business.

This bright new Vietnamese eatery at Burleigh Heads punches above its weight in the flavour stakes.

Bringing together the best of Italian wine, produce, pasta and Negronis.

Italy tops the list for the first time.

This is good-time, cockle-warming, stomp-up-and-down food.

Warm up on a winter morning.

Melbourne will be the host city for the 2017 instalment of the globe’s most influential (and controversial) international survey of restaurants.

A wine lounge replete with wood-fired oven opens in the Adelaide Hills.

Here’s what restaurants are open in Sydney and Melbourne this long weekend

Two sections of the revamped Surry Hills pub will open this Friday.

More change is under way at Adelaide’s Bistro Dom.

Morgan McGlone brings another friend to Harpoon Harry, acclaimed expat chef James Henry of Belon in Hong Kong.

As the countdown to the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list begins, the back end of the list has been released.

Café staples get a Malaysian twist at the sweets counter at Sydney’s Café Rumah.

He’s made a fortune based on predicting the whims of the crowd, so Chris Lucas’s unexpected move to the finer end of the dining spectrum should have the crystal ball gazers looking on with interest.

Australians might just have a reason to cry over spilled milk this week.

The Fink Group has expanded to Queensland with Otto Brisbane, which opens next week, though it's not just a replica of its Sydney location.

As one door closes, another opens on Holt Street in Surry Hills.

Join us for a special modern Italian dinner to celebrate Maurice Terzini’s reboot of Sydney’s Dolphin Hotel.

Just when you thought Park Road couldn’t get any cheesier, up pops Brisbane’s first licensed fromagerie.

You have four weeks to book into one of Sydney’s premier Spanish restaurants before the doors close.

Peter Gilmore heads to his favourite farm and gathers friends around the fire for a winter lunch to remember.

Chinatown's new spicy Chongqing-styled noodle bar is complete with Sichuan broths and free noodle refills.

It's the end of Rockpool as we know it. But the beginning of Eleven Bridge.

As the sun sets on Moon Under Water, Ricky & Pinky is set to rise at Melbourne’s Builders Arms Hotel.

With Negroni Week and World Gin Day just around the corner, Circa, The Prince and leading Australian craft-spirit distillery Four Pillars Gin have teamed up to host an exclusive Martini Masterclass.

Nespresso-spiked Negronis, our charming host Chris Bath and a modern Asian-leaning feast from chef Ryan Hong were just some of the highlights from the 2016 Gourmet Traveller Australian Hotel Awards.

We’ve designed our latest Gourmet Traveller hamper with comfort in mind. The likes of duck confit and dried porcini and top-notch rice make for the ideal winter warmers.

It’s bacon, but not as we normally know it: nitrate-free and dry-cured.

Is Newcastle in line for its first-ever three star restaurant? With the arrival of Cory Campbell, it could be.

Nora re-opens as a dégustation restaurant, balancing out-there sensibilities with an exciting yet un-pretentious menu.

Ace Pizza has reopened as Highgate Drink & Dine, and it’s full of surprises.

Maltodextrin, xanthan gum, sodium nitrate and MSG. What are chefs using and why?

We’ve laid hands on draft copies of the three menus that will be served at the vast and labyrinthine site.

Light installations, creative ideas and live music aside – the food and drink at Vivid Sydney deliver in their own right.

Mike McEnearney arrives in Sydney's CBD armed with a hefty wood-fired oven and a menu packed with good things to eat.

The Italian Wine and Food Festival makes its Melbourne début this weekend, and we’ve got the inside running.

Join Gourmet Traveller deputy editor and seasoned traveller Pat Nourse on an unique journey, in collaboration with luxury travel specialist Abercrombie & Kent.

Mike McEnearney pulls together two nights of regional produce and open-fire cooking for Vivid Sydney

Chef Daniel Pepperell teams up with Sydney’s favourite bar czars to give bistro classics a reverently irreverent twist. Welcome to Restaurant Hubert.

A former Single Origin barista steps out on his own with a café that redefines the idea of small but beautiful.

Scott’s Bar-B-Que chef Rodney Scott knows a little something about barbecue. Here, the pitmaster of more than 30 years shares his golden rules of low-and-slow cooking.

Mercado chef Nathan Sasi never picked that his signature dish would be “a bloody ham and cheese sandwich.” Here's how it's made.

Fortitude Valley has a plush newcomer with lobster, bombe Alaska and DRC by the glass.

Never mind the eggs B – Perth’s new wave of cafés, markets and restaurants has reinvigorated the city’s once-predictable breakfast scene.

Montréal’s wood-fired French cousin to New York’s bagel has landed in Sydney.

The dumpling empire open their seventh Sydney store this August.

The question: where should I be eating in Melbourne right now? First reaction: a blank, paralysed by choice, stare. The eventual answer: here are five we love; some brand new, others more familiar but all absolutely kicking it. The proviso: ask us again in a week.

As Marque heads towards its final service on June 30, pioneering chef Mark Best reflects on 17 years of cutting-edge cooking at Sydney’s edgiest fine-diner.

Swapping a canteen for a CBD location is quite a change, but the laid-back ethos remains at Mike McEnearney’s new digs.

A number of Sydney’s leading chefs and creatives are pairing up to cook you dinner (and then some) at Carriageworks.

A new café from the Reuben Hills team opens in the CBD.

Melbourne's Supernormal will host a two-week matcha pop-up.

His first LA restaurant is critically acclaimed and now Australian chef Curtis Stone is following it up with a second venture.

There's some pretty exciting stuff going on between the slices right now, and it’s not just reserved for the lunchbox. Whether it’s triangles of gooey Taleggio and truffle, or a rich Christmas ham and 'nduja number, the humble toasted sandwich has stepped up its game and (yes!) made friends with the wine bottle. Here’s where to get your taste.

Chef Jake Nicolson will show you how to get the best out of your beef as part of our Gourmet Institute series for 2016.

You know something’s up when a visiting chef requests “local seawater” on his prep list: serious business.

The third chef for our Gourmet Institute series for 2016 is Neil Perry, exploring his current obsession with Mexican.

Choose from three hands-on truffle festivals happening across Australia this winter.

Chef Kerby Craig stays Japanese but swaps fancy food for something a little more fun.

A whole lot of flames are in store for this year’s Winter Feast in Hobart. Here’s who’s cooking.

A night of jazz and pinot noir is coming up in Bondi.

You think you’re passionate about pizza? Artists Chloe Cahill and Ho Hai Tran have been chasing Pizza Huts nigh on three years and now there’s a book documenting the obsession.

A collection documenting the life of the Sydney Opera House has launched online.