It’s the same iconic view in a new wave for Icebergs as the famed Bondi diner reopens with theatrical iced seafood troughs, Sunday sunset parties and a brand-new private dining room.
Yūgen Restaurant has lured Alex Yu from Sydney’s Sokyo, and will be doing a six-person omakase, alongside a pan-Asian subterranean snack and dinner den.
Dani Valent has been one of Australia’s best food communicators for 20 years, a journalist, food critic, travel writer, cook and cookbook author who has applied her intelligence, wit, knowledge and positivity across a range of mediums, from print, radio, television and web through to in-person cooking classes and charity work (she’s been a FareShare […]
Quite simply, this is one of Melbourne’s best places to be: a stylish bar-cum-casual-diner livened by wood fire and fermentation, curing and smoking, spotted gum and sandstone.
Space is integral to the work of this organically certified, off-grid farm – and Arimia really is best considered as a farm with a restaurant rather than vice versa.
Canberra’s appetite for contemporary Asian-inspired food seems unquenchable, with glitzy Wilma joining the ranks of established hotspots plying updates on classic Chinese dishes and familiar flavours from the rest of the continent.
Bring an open mind to this benchmark for innovative Levantine cooking. You’ll experience familiar flavours in novel ways and encounter ingredients not found elsewhere, thanks to tireless chef Adam Wolfers.
The fact that Mr Wong – a walloping 240-seater offering 70-plus dishes and 40-odd pages worth of wine – continues to fire on all cylinders is a downright masterstroke.
From start to finish, a meal at Sixpenny – complete with beautiful ceramics, smart service and imaginative beverage pairings – is a rare and exciting treat.
How easy is it to love Hubert? It all begins the second you step from an ordinary city street into this parallel universe heaving with life and laughter.
It's a tribute to the five years chef Lennox Hastie spent living and working in the Basque Country. There's Spanish wine, sherries and vermouths – served alongisde pintxos, share plates and other drinks-friendly snacks.
The new casual restaurant is paying it forward by sharing tasty Afghan eats, creating employment for newly arrived migrants and providing meals for those facing food insecurity.
Following two years of lockdown trade and amid inflation and labour shortages, the hospitality industry is now facing a cancellation crisis: leaving seats empty, food wasted and restaurateurs on the edge.
Food by one of Victoria’s best chefs and drinks from one of Melbourne’s favourite wine lists. Ides’ new next-door neighbour is worth getting excited about.
From the co-owners behind Byron’s best new bottle shop and a chef who’s worked in some of Sydney’s best restaurants. This is an opening to put on your Northern Rivers radar.
The enterprise, which focuses on empowering and employing women escaping trauma, has opened its own brick-and-mortar café at Yirranma Place: a new Sydney incubator for social enterprises and not-for-profits.
What started as a lockdown side project is now graduating to IRL status. When it opens in Footscray, Bud of Love will be an intimate little wine bar, with bottles available to drink in or take away.
The Kakadu plum has been harvested by First Nations people for tens of thousands of years across northern Australia. Now the burgeoning industry is being shaped on country by people with knowledge and ownership of the prized fruit.
The meat comes from the family livestock farm and the produce comes from a plot of land the owners are learning to harvest. This neighbourhood bistro is out to prove that sustainable eating doesn’t have to be a special occasion.
6am croque madame? Late night steak frites? The dining room or the alfresco terrace? This opening – in one of Sydney’s marquee locations, at the base of the QVB – is one to get truly excited about.
The Lodge Bar & Dining is in a beloved building on the busiest corner of Fortitude Valley, has a menu by one of New Zealand’s most venerated chefs and a wine list by New Zealand’s only Master Sommelier.
She’s a wine educator and the daughter of Gerald Diffey – the owner of the legendary Gerald’s Bar. He’s worked in some of Melbourne’s finest restaurants, bottle shops and wine bars. Together they own Vera, Newcastle’s most exciting new wine retailer.
“Playing with nostalgia is really what I want to be doing … so there’ll be a shorter hands-friendly menu at the bar and then some fun, flirty stuff happening in the bistro.”
No prizes for guessing the focus of the latest addition to Simon Gloftis’ restaurant portfolio. Come for a sushi and a beer, or push the boat out with an 18-course omakase.
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