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The Age, MMag 25/03/2019, photo by Justin McManus. Lee Ho Fook. Crispy eggplant, spiced red vinegar.

‘The fried eggplant is the best in the world, right here in Melbourne’: Top chef dishes his favourites

Josh Niland shares his go-to restaurants, cafes, bars and dishes in Sydney, Melbourne and San Sebastian. Bookmark them immediately.

  • Jane Rocca
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A drizzle of garlic butter is all it takes to turn pantry staples into a surprisingly tasty meal.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Nagi Maehashi
Fresh ginger.

Want to increase body temperature without turning on the heater? Eat these foods

Heating bills through the roof? Incorporate more of these foods into your diets to help raise your body temperature from the inside out.

  • Susie Burrell
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Visit from 4pm for martinis and apertivi.

In Fitzroy’s backstreets glows a charming little newcomer with serious cooking cred

Go to Carnation Canteen for the $12 wines and salty snacks at aperitivo hour, stay for a lavish produce-driven dinner with back-vintage wines.

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Combine all the ragu ingredients in a pot and simmer for an hour.

14 super simple recipes for time-poor (or just plain lazy) cooks to make this week

From an ‘embarrassingly simple’ rigatoni to RecipeTin Eats’ incredibly simple dinner with crispy chilli oil, these easy no-fuss recipes are ready in no time.

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Melbourne Eat Streets

Tiamo restaurant in Carlton.

Five years ago, Lygon Street was dying. Now diners are queuing out the door

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Tocca restaurant in Werribee.

How a run-down strip became the most exciting culinary street in the west

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Victor Churchill in Armadale.

How a well-heeled street of wedding dress shops became a premier dining strip

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Modu restaurant on Clayton Road.

The gritty ‘eating street’ in the south-east that boasts more than 200 restaurants

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Crosta D’Oro in Thornbury.

High Street is jam-packed with bars, cafes and restaurants – but this is its best section

  • Dani Valent

Eating out

Marchesa is a warm, lively, 26-seat Italian bistro.
14.5/20

Why you should add this Italian newbie to your next Kyneton weekend itinerary

I may sound like the pied piper of Piper Street, but I can’t think of another country street in any state that has so many good places to eat and drink.

  • Dani Valent
East meets West in a bowl of casarecce with Lao sausage, snake beans and garlic chives.

Your inside guide to the best eats and seats at Richmond’s reopened Anchovy restaurant

  • Dani Valent
Visit from 4pm for martinis and apertivi.

In Fitzroy’s backstreets glows a charming little newcomer with serious cooking cred

  • Tomas Telegramma
Kate Matheson from Cake Creations by Kate sells her cakes from a vending machine as well as a shop.

From cakes to choc tops: Vending machines gather momentum around Melbourne

  • Bianca Hrovat, Tomas Telegramma and Emma Breheny

Lists & guides

Gemini is a cafe by day, and wine bar by night.

Our 10 favourite  Melbourne openings of the year (so far)

Nasi lemak kukus - coconut rice with peanuts, cucumber and hard-boiled egg, plus turmeric fried chicken and sambal calamari.

Your July hit list: The hot, new and just-reviewed places to check out

Oysters, fries and free-range chicken with burnt chilli nuoc mam at Firebird.

The best all-you-can-eat (and drink) deals around Melbourne

Salsa verde brightens the G. McBean Family Butcher’s porchetta roll.

Six of Melbourne’s best porchetta sandwiches

A coffee window is part of Stanley Street Bodega’s convenient pitch.

Corner shops are cool again: 10 new delis with a difference in Melbourne

Pat Cremean (right) is following in his father Terry’s footsteps at Pieman’s Son.

10 of the best bakery pies featuring a next-gen pieman from a Melbourne pastry dynasty

Doju chef Mika Chae at KT Mart Korean supermarket in Melbourne.

The chef’s essential guide to Korean food shopping

Arbory’s $55 fondue is plenty for lunch between two.

Forget lunch al desko and go al fresco with this fondue (plus more great value city lunch deals)

The Muffin Top with omelette, beef patty, zucchini pickles, American cheese and chilli Kewpie mayo.

June hit list:  Hot, new and just-reviewed places to check out this month

Stokehouse Pasta and Bar’s Wednesday night lasagne special.

Wallet-friendly winter warmers: Eight top meal deals from noodle bowls to bolognese

Pasta carbonara from Sarah Cicolini, a young gun chef from Santo Palato in Rome.

The overseas restaurants you need on your bucket list, according to the Good Food team

Australian-Japanese food writer Emiko Davies, from Enoteca Marilù cooking school in Tuscany.

From Tuscany to Bali: 12 cooking schools worth planning a trip around

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Marchesa is a warm, lively, 26-seat Italian bistro.
14.5/20

Why you should add Marchesa to your next Kyneton weekend itinerary

  • Dani Valent
Floral banquettes and chic lighting are features of the new-look, and renamed Dainty on Toorak.

Dainty Sichuan returns with a luxe new look, name and menu. But is the spice still right?

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Beneath a nutty granola-like topping of nuts and seeds is a silky artichoke custard.
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‘I’m still marvelling’: Our critic can’t stop thinking about this dish at Tulip

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Go-to dish: Beyaynetu vegan platter on injera.
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‘Doubly exceptional’: Why Sinq restaurant’s house-made injera is twice as nice

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Zoe Birch in the tiny dining room at Greasy Zoes in Hurstbridge.
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Eight-seater Greasy Zoes is smaller than some families’ dining rooms

  • Emma Breheny

Recipes

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s lime and coconut sheet cake.
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Lime and triple coconut sheet cake

This tropical traybake will brighten the dreariest winter’s day.

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Side soup.
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Adam Liaw’s side soup

  • < 30 mins
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Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.
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Danielle Alvarez’s ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and wine ragu

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Adam Liaw’s beef fajitas.
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Adam Liaw’s beef fajitas with jalapeno guacamole

  • < 30 mins
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Recipe collections

Combine all the ragu ingredients in a pot and simmer for an hour.

14 super simple recipes for time-poor (or just plain lazy) cooks

Chocolate and vanilla mousse.

40 of Good Food’s greatest and gooiest chocolate   recipes

Chicken braised with mushroom and thyme.

It’s freezing! Here are 20 of our favourite winter one-pots to warm you up

Pasta with roasted shallot, chorizo and tinned tomato sauce

Do the can-can: 12 budget-friendly recipes using tinned pantry ingredients

Helen Goh’s almond shortbread with Stephanie’s mother’s cumquat marmalade.

Five old-fashioned biscuit recipes to bake this weekend

Adam Liaw’s version of the viral internet dish Marry me chicken.

The 50 most popular new recipes of the year (so far)

Rainbow chard and orzo salad with crispy feta.

14 interesting and filling winter-friendly salads to make this week

Crepes with hazelnut chocolate spread and bananas.

Crepe expectations: Five great pancake toppings to make this weekend

Adam Liaw’s mince stroganoff.

15 new (and improved) ways with mince starring Adam Liaw’s low-cost stroganoff

Speedy prawn and noodle laksa with tofu puffs.

25 of RecipeTin’s midweek winners ready in 30 minutes (or less!)

Pizza rice.

14 of our favourite fast and affordable one-pots to make this week

Five warm and saucy puddings to make this weekend

Five warm and saucy puddings to make this weekend

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Tips & advice

Doju chef Mika Chae at KT Mart Korean supermarket.

Grocery shopping for one is hard. Here’s how to do it without wasting money or food

  • Aaron Hutcherson
muesli bars

A five-star rating means it’s healthy, right? It’s not that simple

  • Susie Burrell
Cooking with whole foods is preferable to ultra-processed products.

16 small changes to your diet that will help you live longer

  • Emily Craig
Adam Liaw’s roast chicken noodle soup.

Six steps that take a soup from good to great (and why you should follow the OMFG rule)

  • Alice Zaslavsky
Jill Dupleix’s chicken noodle soup.

Does chicken soup really fix a cold? A dietitian weighs up six winter ailment myths

  • Susie Burrell

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