Good Food Guide 2024
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Award-winning chef Jo Barrett to close hatted Lorne restaurant Little Picket
Riding high with a Good Food Guide hat, Victoria’s Chef of the Year is quitting the bowls club to tackle new projects.
- Dani Valent
Suburban favourites and laneway legends: 10 of Melbourne’s best Spanish restaurants
Here are our (gilda tooth)picks of where to settle in with a suite of share-plates and a glass of sherry or sangria.
- Good Food Guide reviewers and Annabel Smith
Ten of Melbourne’s favourite hatted Italian restaurants (and one that’ll surprise you)
In a city spoiled for choice, these restaurants are the crema de la crema of Melbourne’s rich Italian dining scene.
- Emma Breheny, Dani Valent and Good Food Guide reviewers
From rooftops to floating bars: 10 of Melbourne’s best outdoor dining spots
What Melbourne lacks in coast-hugging restaurants, it makes up for with al fresco eateries in unexpected locations. Here’s where to find them.
- Emma Breheny and Good Food Guide reviewers
15 of Melbourne’s best dining spots for relaxed and casual meals with mates
You’re all keen to catch-up over a bite to eat but where can you go that’s crowd-pleasing, relaxed and relatively affordable? We’ve got you.
- Emma Breheny and Good Food Guide reviewers
Melbourne’s best new restaurants, bars and brunch of 2023
From cafes with bold breakfast menus to bars that spirit you to another era, these venues had us heading back for another bite.
- Emma Breheny and Good Food Guide reviewers
Want a Good Food hat? Now, for the first time, you can buy one (sort of)
Due to popular demand, introducing the Good Food cap - the essential summer fashion buy.
- Sarah Norris
‘Crust you could park a car on’: Melbourne’s best restaurant bread revealed in the inaugural Caps awards
They’re just like the coveted chef’s hats we award to restaurants, but a little bit looser fitting. And the winners are...
- Emma Breheny, Ellen Fraser and Callan Boys
25 of Melbourne’s most iconic restaurants to tick off your bucket list
Only a few establishments can claim definitive icon status. These deserve such a shout-out.
- Michael Harden
Red carpet, cocktails and colour from The Age Good Food Guide 2024 Awards
A taste of the gala event, presented by Vittoria Coffee and Oceania Cruises.