Callan Boys came on board as the full time national food and drink writer for Fairfax Media in 2014. He's had a love of food from a young age, once spent too much money at Vue de Monde and had to live off complimentary hotel biscuits for the remainder of a jaunt to Melbourne.

Terry Durack is chief restaurant reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald and Director of Australia's Top Restaurants. He has written six cookbooks, and has twice won the Glenfiddich Restaurant Critic of The Year award.

Myffy Rigby is the National Good Food Guides Editor, Creative Director of The Sydney Morning Herald's Food and Drink Events and contributes a weekly column for Good Food. When not eating in restaurants for work, she is eating in restaurants for fun.

Ardyn Bernoth is the editor of Good Food. While in previous lives she has been a business, political and education reporter, she cooks, eats, grows and is generally totally obsessed with food.

Janne Apelgren has edited the food sections of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, as well as six editions of The Age Good Food Guide. She is currently on a gourmet grown-up gap year, researching a book on food and travel.

Gemima Cody is the chief restaurant critic for the Age and the creative director of Good Food Month. She has previously edited two bar guides, a pub guide and written for New York Mag. She still isn't dead.

Cathy Gowdie wrote her first reviews for The Age Good Food Guide in the late 1980s and edited The Age Cheap Eats in 1993 and 1994. Now a freelance writer and editor for media and private clients, she is a regular contributor to Good Food.

Roslyn Grundy edited The Age newspaper's influential food and wine section Epicure from 1994 to 1997, The Age Cheap Eats guide in 2002 and 2003, and now edits Victoria's restaurant industry bible, The Age Good Food Guide. She has not yet lost her appetite.

Andrew Hagger is a rare blend of business executive (as the Group Executive Wealth at NAB), musician and foodie. He chairs the Olivia Newton-John Cancer & Wellness Centre Appeal Committee and is a former director of Melbourne International Jazz Festival and Wheeler Centre.

Jeni Port, the 2014 Wine Communicator of the Year, is the longest-serving wine writer on The Age newspaper. A wine judge and author, she was also named a Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014.

Dani Valent has been writing about food and restaurants for more than 15 years. She has been the restaurant critic for The Sunday Age since 2006 and is author of two award-winning Thermomix cookbooks.