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The 10 best private dining rooms in Australia

Whether it’s for a corporate event, a birthday, or just because, these venues take a lot of beating for excellent food, top wines and exclusive service.

  • Jill Dupleix

Brisbane’s best restaurants for a business lunch

Where to go when you’ve got a deal to discuss, when you want to impress your top client or thank the team – as tested by our reviewers.

  • Jill Dupleix

Where to dine for business in Canberra, Darwin, Hobart and Launceston

Where to go when you’ve got a deal to discuss, when you want to impress your top client or thank the team – as tested by our reviewers.

  • Jill Dupleix
Rebecca Vallance in her new store at the Strand Arcade in Sydney.

‘New York polish, Ballarat work ethic’: the designer creating an empire

Other Australian brands are struggling. So what’s Rebecca Vallance doing right?

  • Lauren Sams

Perth’s best restaurants for a business lunch

Where to go when you’ve got a deal to discuss, when you want to impress your top client or thank the team – as tested by our reviewers.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
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Adelaide’s best restaurants for a business lunch

Where to go when you’ve got a deal to discuss, when you want to impress your top client or thank the team – as tested by our reviewers.

  • Nigel Hopkins

This Month

Melbourne’s best restaurants for a business lunch

Where to go when you’ve got a deal to discuss, when you want to impress your top client or thank the team – as tested by our reviewers.

  • Jill Dupleix

‘I found my mob’: The collector who quit accounting to follow a passion

A soft spot for timepieces from an early age grew into something more meaningful for this watch enthusiast.

  • Bani McSpedden

Sydney’s best restaurants for a business lunch

Where to go when you’ve got a deal to discuss, when you want to impress your top client or thank the team – as tested by our reviewers.

  • Jill Dupleix

Introducing the Financial Review’s new restaurant guide, Fin Dining & Wine

Fifty Australian restaurants at the top of their food game that also understand the particular needs of those doing business over lunch.

  • Jill Dupleix
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March

Henson’s studio houses antique statuary and books, as well as his large-scale archived photographs draped in plastic.

‘A chook shed at the end of the universe’: at home with Bill Henson

Artists Bill Henson and Louise Hearman have turned the building that houses their studios and living quarters into an intriguing sanctuary.

  • Stephen Todd
Bhutan: a bucket-list experience for the person who has everything.

A bucket-worthy holiday destination for the person who has everything

It’s been 50 years since Bhutan opened to foreign travellers. Now the Himalayan kingdom is adding to its catalogue of luxury resorts.

  • Matthew Drummond
Jeramie Hotz and Talia Shuvalov, the co-founders of Erede.

Gen Z doesn’t care where diamonds are from – even if it’s a lab

Luxury brands may be turning up their noses but many jewellers – and their clientele – are embracing lab-grown gems.

  • Glynis Traill-Nash
The Lotus Emeya, which sports a drivetrain similar to that of the Eletre, is designed to compete with high-performance electric cars such as the Porsche Taycan.

Lotus targets Porsche in latest electric sedan play

The once-ailing car maker with the sports pedigree is teasing a new electric model, as its luxury SUV arrives in Australia in a matter of weeks.

  • Tony Davis
Jac Hunt, the co-founder of fashion label Jac + Jack. Illustration by Sam Bennett

This fashion founder’s send-off will be a funeral pyre and limericks

With a strong affinity to India, Jac Hunt, the co-founder of Jac+Jack, would incorporate Hindu traditions into her last hurrah.

  • Matthew Drummond
Arkhe chef Jake Kellie’s food tour of Mexico City.

What this top chef loved eating – and sipping – in Mexico City

Arkhé’s Jake Kellie is enthralled by the tastes, bars and markets of the city at the top of his bucket list, from the tacos and tamales to the mole and mezcal.

  • Jill Dupleix

New York’s best new hotel is in its coolest neighbourhood

The family behind Firmdale Hotels have followed a whimsical pattern of success, opening their third boutique hotel in the Big Apple.

  • Kate Maxwell
Sarah Harris Gould and Lauren Tapper, photographed at the Capella Hotel in Sydney.

Five hot New Zealand designers to add to your wardrobe

These fashion creatives from across the ditch are redefining Antipodean cool.

  • Lauren Sams

French superstar designer Pierre Yovanovitch is heading to Melbourne

The Paris-based furniture designer will make his Australian debut with a showcase of his haute couture aesthetic.

  • Stephen Todd
Black ballerina shoes by Tod’s.

‘Balletcore’ fashion takes centre stage – and not just for women

This season, designers are taking their cues from the stage and injecting collections with hyperfeminine looks that wouldn’t be out of place at the barre.

  • Lauren Sams
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Vicki Lee in her Potts Point gallery.

The luxuries this artist loves – including a spray cleaner

Sydney-based artist Vicki Lee on embracing her colourful style and taming the mess.

  • Lauren Sams

Forget AI – these watches test the limits of human imagination

With only a few elements to play with, brands are taking inspiration from unusual sources to create genre-bending specimens.

  • Bani McSpedden

October 2023

The Australian porcelain brand loved by Gwyneth, Nigella and David Chang

After nearly three decades of building her porcelain homewares business Mud Australia into a globally recognised brand, Shelley Simpson still loves pottering around.

  • Lauren Sams
Black Diamondz luxury property concierge owner Monika Tu. Illustration by Sam Bennett.

TV realtor wants party to remember but not ’til she’s 105

Monika Tu is the owner of Black Diamondz luxury property concierge and appears on Luxe Listings Sydney. She wants to go out in serious style.

  • Lauren Sams
Wallpaper by de Gournay in the workshop, known as the Goat Shed.

This Aussie’s hugely successful brand confuses venture capitalists

Australian Richard Christiansen has built a wholesome brand inspired by his LA hilltop home. Now, Flamingo Estate is rolling out Moroccan rugs.

  • David Meagher