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The MasterChef finalists and judge and their big shiny plate.

After months of blood, sweat, tears and umami, the MasterChef winner is crowned

It’s Nat versus Pezza cooking up a 113-step dessert storm in the MasterChef grand final. Who fluffs things up and who gets to hold up the big shiny plate?

  • Ben Pobjie
Two busy bartenders work in tandem behind the bar.
Good Food hat15/20

‘The perfect bar for this moment’: Good luck getting a seat at this new hatted Carlton gem

Bar Olo was intended as the support act for sibling restaurant Scopri. Locals had other ideas.

  • Besha Rodell
Semla’s Swedish-style cardamom buns.

Seven great bakeries have opened and (gasp!) they’re not in the inner north

There’s a playful bakehouse on a shopping centre rooftop, a patisserie blending French techniques and Middle Eastern flavours, and a Scandi spot that’s all about buns.

  • Tomas Telegramma
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Chicken and egg risotto.
EASY

Is it risotto, is it fried rice? Adam Liaw’s simple midweek saviour is the best of both

This recipe is a bit like fried rice, but is really a risotto.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Canned tomato soup is elevated to new heights in this version, served inside a garlic-buttered cob loaf.

Five ways to magic a meal from a can of tomato soup (starring this garlic-bread cobb loaf bowl)

Give a humble, cost-effective can a bit of juju with these ideas from Katrina Meynink.

  • Katrina Meynink

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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

Beehive Pub

Hawthorn’s abuzz with the reopening of this beloved old pub

The restored watering hole will send out classic counter meals with a light cheffy touch, and have Carlton Draught on pour alongside Chablis.

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

Toddy Shop is a buzzy hot spot for home-style southern Indian dishes

  • Dani Valent
‘The fried eggplant is the best in the world, here in Melbourne’: Top chef dishes his go-tos

‘The fried eggplant is the best in the world, here in Melbourne’: Top chef dishes his go-tos

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

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

  • Besha Rodell

Lists & guides

Steak frites at Ouest France Bistro

Eight of Melbourne’s best steak frites

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

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Two busy bartenders work in tandem behind the bar.
Good Food hat15/20

Bar Olo is ‘the perfect bar for this moment in this neighbourhood’. Good luck getting a seat

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

Tiny Toddy Shop is a buzzy hot spot for home-style southern Indian dishes

  • Dani Valent
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

Recipes

Filled flatbreads with kale and potato masala.

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

Chef Rosheen Kaul unlocks the secret to making the leafy green cool again with these three spicy recipes.

  • Rosheen Kaul
Gnocchi

Four Stephanie Alexander veg recipes that kids actually love to eat (and cook)

  • Stephanie Alexander
Tuna cakes.
EASY

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

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

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s lime and triple coconut traybake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura

Recipe collections

Karen Martini recipe : Ragu alla Bolognese Photograph by William Meppem (photographer on contract, no restrictions)

15 hearty winter pasta recipes to cook this week

Serve this rich and cheesy tart with bitter winter leaves or steamed greens.

40 fantastique French recipes for Bastille Day (and beyond)

Danielle Alvarez’s double lemon cake with vanilla sugar.

Five zingy lemon cakes to bake this weekend

Neil Perry’s braised beef cheeks with baby carrots.

Winter warmers: 10 ways to cook ‘impossible to ruin’ beef cheeks

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

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Tips & advice

Tomato soup

Pantry staples: The great Good Food tinned tomato soup taste test

  • Bianca Hrovat

You might think you’re ‘helping’, but leave the plate-stacking to the professionals

  • Terry Durack
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
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 restaurant bill without the awkwardness

  • Alice Zaslavsky
Fresh ginger.

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

  • Susie Burrell

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Drinks

Non-alcoholic conscious drink from Oz Harvest x Kakadu Kitchen.

If cutting out alcohol completely is unrealistic, raise a glass to ‘damp’ drinking

  • Katie Spain

Is red wine becoming more alcoholic because of climate change?

  • Huon Hooke

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Calling all applicants for the Good Food Guide’s Young Chef of the Year

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Popular on Good Food

Semla’s Swedish-style cardamom buns.

Seven great bakeries have opened and (gasp!) they’re not in the inner north

  • Tomas Telegramma
The MasterChef finalists and judge and their big shiny plate.

After months of blood, sweat, tears and umami, the MasterChef winner is crowned

  • Ben Pobjie
Two busy bartenders work in tandem behind the bar.
Good Food hat15/20

‘The perfect bar for this moment’: Good luck getting a seat at this new hatted Carlton gem

  • Besha Rodell
Canned tomato soup is elevated to new heights in this version, served inside a garlic-buttered cob loaf.

Five ways to magic a meal from a can of tomato soup (starring this garlic-bread cobb loaf bowl)

  • Katrina Meynink
Steak frites at Ouest France Bistro

Eight of Melbourne’s best steak frites for Bastille Day and beyond

  • Emma Breheny and Tomas Telegramma
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