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The new footy food? Chef Shannon Martinez has two new restaurants at Marvel Stadium.

Melbourne’s hottest new food precinct is… Marvel Stadium?

Marvel Stadium is dishing up a dining revolution with food by hatted chefs, vegan parmas and restaurants open well beyond game day.

  • Emma Breheny and Andrea McGinniss
Light but tough enough to stand upright, the bagnum holds the equivalent of two bottles of wine.

Raise a glass to the bagnum, the plastic wine pouch that’s made cask wine cool again

There’s a growing thirst for wine in alternative packaging, from pouches and cans to the new-school goon bag.

  • Katie Spain
Smoked butternut pumpkin-filled pappardelle with hazelnuts, lemon and sage.
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‘I love this restaurant’: Why Essen is essential dining in regional Queensland

Owner-chef Clarissa Pabst is writing her own small-town rules at this vine-covered cottage.

  • Callan Boys
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Introduce visitors to the American Doughnut Kitchen, then explain it’s not actually American.

I’m coming to Melbourne for the week, where should I eat? The critic’s top picks for visitors

These are the restaurants, pubs and bars that reveal our city’s essence, and who we are as Melburnians, says Besha Rodell.

  • Besha Rodell
Orecchiette pasta with mussels and ’nduja.

First look: An Italian restaurant in Mount Eliza with strong River Cafe vibes

A minimalist fit-out, bold splashes of colour and fiercely regional Italian cooking: it’s a jolt of excitement for Mornington Peninsula dining.

  • Emma Breheny

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Eating out

Gingerboy and its striking interior in 2006.

‘It’s brutal’: Beloved laneway spot joins wave of Melbourne closures

An 18-year-old modern-Asian fan favourite goes into liquidation, as a tough economy hits the hip pockets of both owners and diners.

  • Emma Breheny
Jo Barrett, co-owner and chef at Little Picket in Lorne.

Award-winning chef Jo Barrett to close hatted Lorne restaurant Little Picket

  • Dani Valent
Mitch Orr, chef at hatted Sydney restaurant Kiln, will oversee food at one of St Kilda’s dining institutions.

Trailblazing Sydney chef Mitch Orr to reign over Prince Dining Room

  • Emma Breheny
Tim Matthews placed his Ballarat pizzeria, The Forge, into administration last Monday.

‘The tourists have stopped coming’: Well-known restaurants close in regional Victoria

  • Richard Cornish

Lists & guides

Kalamaki (mixed skewers served over rice) at Tsindos Greek restaurant in Melbourne CBD.

Your April hit list: Hot, new and just-reviewed places to check out

Bridge Road Brewers’ menu champions pizza topped with local ingredients.

The best places to eat, drink (and scoff pizza) in Rutherglen and surrounds

Bronwyn with her beloved cheeseburger at Butcher’s Diner.

From noodles to late-night burgers, this is where comedians eat out on the cheap in Melbourne

The chefs’ culinary backgrounds merge in the lamb forequarter chops with chimichurri.

10 hot new southside venues worth making a pit stop at

Seabourn dining

Good Food’s essential guide to the best cruise dining and drinks

Publique Bakery owner Sung Kim at the CBD shop.

Eight of Melbourne’s new-wave bakeries worth spending your dough on

Assorted dishes at The Petrel Hotel in Geelong West.

Road trip! 15 new regional restaurants to check out

Sink into a banquette, or nab a prized seat at the bar at Bar Lourinha.

Suburban gems, laneway legends: 10 of Melbourne’s best Spanish restaurants

Deep End pizzeria in Fitzroy specialises in three different styles of US pizza: Chicago, New York and Detroit.

Eight new (and new-ish) pizza places serving styles beyond Neapolitan

Lee Ho Fook owner-chef Victor Liong outside his favourite Melbourne restaurant, Flower Drum.

The chefs’ guide to Melbourne’s Chinatowns (and what to order)

Don’t miss the oysters at Bar Lourinha.

12 of Melbourne’s best date-friendly dining spots (plus where to sit at each)

Hector’s HCT is a riff on the classic trifecta.

Seven essential Melbourne sandwiches you must try

Recent reviews

The go-to dish: falling-apart lamb barbacoa served with warm flour tortillas.
14/20

To try some of Victoria’s best Mexican food (and margaritas), head for the hills

  • Besha Rodell
The two-level restaurant, and its $70 banquet, is a good option for groups.
13/20

Greek food is having a moment, but 40-year-old city icon Tsindos is an authentic stayer

  • Dani Valent
Cafe and restaurant Tapenade is a taste of France on Commercial Road.

Tapenade provides a warm and authentic slice of France in an unlikely city setting

  • Dani Valent
Brico restaurant and wine bar in Carlton North.
14/20

Is it a restaurant or a wine bar? It doesn’t matter when Brico is as friendly and fun as this

  • Dani Valent
The interior at Maggie’s Snacks and Liquor, Brunswick East.
14/20

Under-the-radar newcomer Maggie’s is one of Melbourne’s best cocktail bars, right now

  • Besha Rodell

Recipes

Steak with store-bought crispy chilli oil and simple sides is a midweek favourite.
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RecipeTin Eats was almost too embarrassed to share her go-to dinner with crispy chilli oil

Quick, easy, flexible and delicious, Nagi Maehashi turns to this dependable recipe after a long day, and you will too.

  • < 30 mins
  • Nagi Maehashi
Ice-cream sundaes with leftover Easter egg chocolate sauce

If life gives you leftover Easter eggs, make chocolate sauce (plus four more new ideas)

  • Katrina Meynink
Tortelli maremmani.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s tortelli maremmani (silverbeet and ricotta ravioli)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Shakshuka meets savoury bread-and-butter pudding in this share-friendly brunch dish.
EASY

Katrina Meynink’s croissant shakshuka bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink

Recipe collections

Rice bowls with sticky roasted pumpkin.

20 healthy recipes to get back on track after the Easter blowout

Natalie Paull’s favourite chocolate cake, the cocoa sour cream layer cake.

Eat cake and March on: The 20 most popular recipes of last month

Delicious seasoned chicken simmered in crisp apple cider.

14 of Adam Liaw’s best ever autumn recipes to cook this week

Grilled sausages on a bed of chickpea mash.

Five bright and banging sausage recipes to make this weekend

This salad has staying power, provided you aren’t heavy-handed with the dressing.

15 rice and easy recipes to cook this week

Simmered pork with ponzu.

Five of the best crunchy, soft and succulent pork belly recipes

Rosheen Kaul’s pork satay.

Friday is the new Satay: 10 saucy recipes to stick on your to-cook list

THE salad sandwich by Nagi Maehashi (RecipeTin Eats). For Good Food, Feb 21, 2023 Pic credit: Nagi Maehashi

Seven great RecipeTin Eats sandwiches to wrap your mouth around

Crumbed chicken with herb and garlic butter pasta.

14 affordable family meals to make when money’s too tight to mention

Overnight iced coffee.

Ice, ice, coffee: Five cool espresso drinks and desserts

Pasta limone gets the assassina treatment.

Six summery Italian pastas to keep that holiday feeling going

This chicken and corn salad is inspired by the Mexican street food, esquites.

12 chicken breast recipes that are actually full of flavour

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Tips & advice

New Good Food columnist Alice Zaslavsky.

From scrambled eggs to steak: The secrets to seasoning almost any dish like a pro

  • Alice Zaslavsky
***EMBARGOED FOR SUNDAY LIFE / GOOD FOOD FLIP BACK MAG, OCTOBER 4/20 ISSUE*** Adam Liaw recipe : Picnic Pasta Alla Norma Photograph by William Meppem (photographer on contract, no restrictions) 

Good news, pasta lovers. It’s not as bad for your health as you may think

  • Hattie Garlick

Why eating bananas can be more effective at reducing blood pressure

  • Michael Searles
Good Food’s Callan Boys and Bianca Hrovat taste test crossover snack foods.

Doughnut Twisties and Chupa Chups custard: Do any of these crazy collabs taste any good?

  • Bianca Hrovat and Callan Boys

How to eat carbs the healthier way (and why you shouldn’t forget the F word)

  • Susie Burrell

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Drinks

Illustration: Simon Letch.

Dreaming about planting your own vineyard or starting a winery? Read this first

  • Huon Hooke

Why does my champagne taste oxidised? How to sniff out wine faults

  • Huon Hooke

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The new footy food? Chef Shannon Martinez has two new restaurants at Marvel Stadium.

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  • Emma Breheny and Andrea McGinniss
Introduce visitors to the American Doughnut Kitchen, then explain it’s not actually American.

I’m coming to Melbourne for the week, where should I eat? The critic’s top picks for visitors

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Light but tough enough to stand upright, the bagnum holds the equivalent of two bottles of wine.

Raise a glass to the bagnum, the plastic wine pouch that’s made cask wine cool again

  • Katie Spain
Orecchiette pasta with mussels and ’nduja.

First look: An Italian restaurant in Mount Eliza with strong River Cafe vibes

  • Emma Breheny
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