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The ultimate cheese toastie needs the perfect pull factor.

Pulling power: 10 melty cheeses ranked for ooze and stretch

Ellie Studd shares the golden rules for making the perfect stretchy cheese toastie — many strings attached.

  • Ellie Studd
The bar at Enter Via Laundry serves Indian chaat (snacks) and inventive cocktails.

This ambitious Carlton North fine diner is loosening things up with its new front bar

Walk-ins, Indian street snacks and an open door: it’s an all-new era at Carlton North fine-diner Enter Via Laundry.

  • Emma Breheny
The Peach.
13.5/20

This charming wooden hut − and its peachy dessert − is a fairytale find near an airfield

Basq is an unexpected but pleasing all-day restaurant with really good − and dare I say “yum” − food.

  • Dani Valent
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Ben Shewry at Attica

Ben Shewry reckons this underrated CBD restaurant’s pasta is better than Bologna’s

The Attica restaurateur and chef shares his Melbourne food and drink favourites – plus the Malaysian city he wishes he could keep secret.

  • Jane Rocca
Cruise ships are introducing smaller venues and more specialised cuisines to suit a new generation of food-savvy passengers.

Thinking about booking a cruise? Everything you need to know about the food and drink

From the best food and drink on the high seas to clever drink collabs, here’s the gourmet guide to great cruising.

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Eating out

A mountain of rocket lends a peppery freshness – and its dressing, a citrusy hit – that slices through the star ingredient’s richness.

If ‘the classics never die’, this Thornbury favourite’s cotoletta panino is immortal

With just four ingredients, it couldn’t be simpler. But that’s why it’s so special.

  • Tomas Telegramma
The borage-bedecked avocado tart tastes like something fairies would serve at the summer solstice.
Good Food hatGood Food hat17.5/20

Our critic had many expectations for the revamped Vue de Monde. But one thing surprised her

  • Besha Rodell
Casa Chino is a moody space with a long list of cocktails to go with the Peruvian-Chinese food.

Fusion food gets a bad rap, but this Brunswick newcomer restaurant breaks the mould

  • Emma Breheny
Fried plantain at African Calabash restaurant in Footscray.

‘Golden, starchy goodness’: These are hot chips, but not as you might know them

  • Dani Valent

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

At Flower Drum, the service alone is remarkable.

Our chief critic’s little black book of places she usually only shares with visiting friends

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

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

Thinking about booking a cruise? Everything you need to know about the food and drink

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)

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The borage-bedecked avocado tart tastes like something fairies would serve at the summer solstice.
Good Food hatGood Food hat17.5/20

Our critic had many expectations for the revamped Vue de Monde. But one thing surprised her

  • Besha Rodell
Fried plantain at African Calabash restaurant in Footscray.

‘Golden, starchy goodness’: African Calabash serves hot chips, but not as you might know them

  • Dani Valent
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

Recipes

Cookies are a sweet and simple option.

Katherine Sabbath’s Nutella thumbprint cookies

Plus the baking queen and self-described introvert’s tips for breaking the ice and winning friends with homemade baked goods.

  • Megan Johnston
Roasting potatoes in pickle brine gives them a chip-shop-vinegar feeling.

This pantry staple you usually throw out will make simple midweek spuds special

  • Anna Jones
Spanakopita-inspired artichoke, green olive and spinach filo pie

Spanakopita-inspired artichoke, green olive and spinach filo pie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
You can substitute almonds for roughly chopped walnuts in the crumble.
EASY

Get ready to crumble with Helen Goh’s rhubarb, pear and fresh ginger pud

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh

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Adam Liaw’s chicken diane.

10 of your favourite retro recipes given the Adam Liaw treatment

This hearty meatball and pasta soup is sure to be love at first spoonful.

Eat and repeat: 10 warming new recipes to put on high rotation

14 midweek meals ready in three steps or less to make this week

14 midweek meals ready in three steps or less to make this week

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

Julia’s tip: You can use baby spinach in the filling but English spinach has a far superior flavour.

Five great green pies to make this weekend

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

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Cruise ships are introducing smaller venues and more specialised cuisines to suit a new generation of food-savvy passengers.

Thinking about booking a cruise? Everything you need to know about the food and drink

Cookies are a sweet and simple option.

Terrible at small talk? How baking can break down barriers and win friends

  • Megan Johnston
Illustraton by Dionne Gain.

Elbows are back on the table as Gen Z say manners no longer relevant

  • Ewan Somerville
Burgers might look tasty – but are they good for you?

Is there such a thing as healthy takeaway? A dietitian’s guide to what to order-in

  • Susie Burrell
New Good Food columnist Alice Zaslavsky.

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

  • Alice Zaslavsky

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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
Top-ranking Yarra Yering is known for its cabernet and shiraz varietals and blends, but especially its Dry Red Wine No. 1.

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Ben Shewry at Attica

Top chef Ben Shewry reckons the pasta at this underrated CBD restaurant is better than Bologna’s

  • Jane Rocca
The ultimate cheese toastie needs the perfect pull factor.

Pulling power: 10 melty cheeses ranked for ooze and stretch

  • Ellie Studd
The bar at Enter Via Laundry serves Indian chaat (snacks) and inventive cocktails.

This ambitious Carlton North fine diner is loosening things up with its new front bar

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  • Megan Johnston
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