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Top restaurant tastemakers to change everything you thought you knew about CBD sushi trains
Two Melbourne power players of cooking and cool are shaking things up with their first joint venture, a sushi restaurant with a difference opening this autumn.
- Emma Breheny
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- Sydney
This famous city strip is about to become Sydney’s next great restaurant hub
The Tapavino team have announced plans to open a restaurant in the civic heart of the city, aka ‘Sydney’s piazza’.
- Scott Bolles
Top Tetsuya’s chef joins wave of high-profile kitchen departures – but can he fly solo?
Josh Raine is one of a handful of chefs hoping to open their own venue despite tough market conditions.
- Scott Bolles
Butter chicken pizza or Indian fine dining? The dead end of Smith Street is about to get glitzy
Turn left for a pub-pizzeria, right for contemporary chef’s table dining when two dramatically different Indian restaurants open in the same building.
- Emma Breheny
- Exclusive
- Canberra
Chef Matt Moran reveals plans for two side-by-side steak and sandwich eateries
Compa (Italian slang for friend), a 116-seat Italian steakhouse, will launch next door to &Sando;, a bite-sized venue that will squeeze 18 eat-in sanger fans.
- Scott Bolles
Happy Boy crew’s French bistro will be a timeless two-storey stunner
Expect affordable takes on baked scallops, chicken cordon bleu, duck a l’orange and steak frites, plus an award-winning cellar.
- Matt Shea
- Exclusive
- Restaurant news
Chef Mark LaBrooy leaves Three Blue Ducks to join The Boathouse Group
The chef, cookbook writer and food broadcaster was lured by the promise of a new Wollongong venue.
- Scott Bolles
Sydney’s original five-star hotel to open four new dining venues as part of $60m revamp
House Made Hospitality will launch two bars and two restaurants at the landmark Wentworth site on Phillip Street.
- Scott Bolles
- Exclusive
- Restaurant news
Secretive restaurant Enter Via Laundry will soon add a bar – and a front door
This bold Indian restaurant has always had an air of mystery. But owner Helly Raichura is about to pull back the curtain and invite guests in for a drink.
- Emma Breheny
- Exclusive
- Restaurant news
Analiese Gregory to open 10-seat restaurant in a Tasmanian farm shed
“It’s going to be an anti restaurant. It’ll be the antithesis to the restaurants I’ve worked before,” says the celebrated chef.
- Sarah Norris