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Eggs and chickpeas are good protein options.

Revealed: The secrets of a perfect desk lunch (or food court order if you forgot to pack one)

Nutrition experts share their strategies and recipe ideas for a balanced, satiating and exciting midday meal.

  • Rachel Rabkin Peachman
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Four Stephanie Alexander veg recipes that kids actually love to eat (and cook)

These simple dishes have been trialled, eaten and approved by kids, making them perfect for less experienced cooks.

  • Stephanie Alexander
Dishes of egg, cabbage, prawns with okra, and dry pork at Toddy Shop.

This tiny Fitzroy eatery is a buzzy hot spot for home-style southern Indian dishes

Toddy Shop, Mischa Tropp’s popular Melbourne version of a Keralan eating house, pays fond homage to the food stands of the same name.

  • Dani Valent
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Alice Zaslavsky suggests using a bill-splitting app or appointing a Designated Dave to pay.

But I didn’t even drink! How to fairly split the bill without the side serving of awkwardness

Forget fighting over who drank what and whose turn it is to pay. Follow these tips for friends with differing budgets to dine together without friction.

  • Alice Zaslavsky
Filled flatbreads with kale and potato masala.

All hail kale: The much maligned green veg that has finally become cool

Chef Rosheen Kaul unlocks the secret to making kale cool again.

  • Rosheen Kaul

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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

  • Dani Valent
Tocca restaurant in Werribee.

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

  • Dani Valent
Victor Churchill in Armadale.

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

  • Dani Valent
Modu restaurant on Clayton Road.

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

  • Dani Valent
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

Dishes of egg, cabbage, prawns with okra, and dry pork at Toddy Shop.

This tiny Fitzroy eatery is a buzzy hot spot for home-style southern Indian dishes

Toddy Shop, Mischa Tropp’s popular Melbourne version of a Keralan eating house, pays fond homage to the food stands of the same name.

  • Dani Valent
Julie and Josh Niland at their soon-to-open Saint Peter and the Grand National.

‘They make the best croissants’: Top chef Josh Niland dishes the details you really need to know

  • Jane Rocca
The go-to dish: cuttlefish dosai.
14/20

This swish Sri Lankan restaurant serves what our critic calls ‘the perfect snack’

  • Besha Rodell
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

  • Dani Valent

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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The go-to dish: cuttlefish dosai.
14/20

Swish Sri Lankan restaurant Hopper Joint serves ‘the perfect snack’

  • Besha Rodell
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?

  • Dani Valent
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

  • Besha Rodell
Go-to dish: Beyaynetu vegan platter on injera.
13.5/20

‘Doubly exceptional’: Why Sinq restaurant’s house-made injera is twice as nice

  • Dani Valent

Recipes

Tuna cakes.
EASY

The RecipeTin magic touch that lifts these tuna patties from meh to marvellous

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

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Nagi Maehashi
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s lime and coconut sheet cake.
EASY

Lime and triple coconut sheet cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Filled flatbreads with kale and potato masala.

All hail kale: The much maligned green veg that has finally become cool

  • Rosheen Kaul
Side soup.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s side soup

  • < 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

The brining method keeps the meat ridiculously juicy.

National Fried Chicken Day is a poultry excuse to cook these classics

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

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Tips & advice

Eggs and chickpeas are good protein options.

Revealed: The secrets of a perfect desk lunch (or food court order if you forgot to pack one)

  • Rachel Rabkin Peachman
Fresh ginger.

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

  • Susie Burrell
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

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Drinks

Is red wine becoming more alcoholic because of climate change?

  • Huon Hooke

Does the term ‘fine wine’ refer to a wine’s quality or its texture?

  • Huon Hooke

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Eggs and chickpeas are good protein options.

Revealed: The secrets of a perfect desk lunch (or food court order if you forgot to pack one)

  • Rachel Rabkin Peachman
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Four Stephanie Alexander veg recipes that kids actually love to eat (and cook)

  • Stephanie Alexander
Dishes of egg, cabbage, prawns with okra, and dry pork at Toddy Shop.

This tiny Fitzroy eatery is a buzzy hot spot for home-style southern Indian dishes

  • Dani Valent
Alice Zaslavsky suggests using a bill-splitting app or appointing a Designated Dave to pay.

But I didn’t even drink! How to fairly split the bill without the side serving of awkwardness

  • Alice Zaslavsky
The go-to dish: cuttlefish dosai.
14/20

This swish Sri Lankan restaurant serves what our critic calls ‘the perfect snack’

  • Besha Rodell
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