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Good Food columnist honoured at prestigious awards (and here are 20 of her best recipes to try)

Pioneers in non-alcoholic drinks, fine dining and Filipino gelato were among those inducted into this year’s Melbourne Food and Wine Hall of Fame.

  • Daniela Frangos

Don’t ditch the vegetable oil, just learn to use it properly, says Adam Liaw

The choice of oil is one of the most misunderstood areas of cooking. Here’s how to sort fact from fiction, and cook well too.

  • Adam Liaw
Pork katsu curry.

Keep warm and curry on at this cosy Japanese cafe

Japanese curry is one of the world’s great culinary remixes, and Kare is on a mission to showcase the comfort food.

  • Dani Valent
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RecipeTin Eats’ Greek chicken and potato tray bake.

14 of our favourite easy tray bakes to make this week

From 15-minute pasta to a bright Med-inspired chicken dish, these throw-together oven dinners are easy and delicious any night of the week.

Plagued by an alarming number of closures, these restaurants are ‘flipping’

Plagued by an alarming number of closures, these restaurants are ‘flipping’

Faced with tough times, top operators have tackled a downturn in trade by rethinking their restaurants.

  • Tomas Telegramma

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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

Southall’s keema naan (left) and Gruyere naan.
14/20

Second to naan: Which of this longstanding Indian restaurant’s stuffed breads is best?

Southall’s two tandoor-cooked breads are so good, and so different, that it’s impossible to decide which one is better.

  • Dani Valent
The wine list at Circl is as thick as a novel, with 30 pages dedicated to burgundy alone.

Punch Lane’s long-delayed wine wonderland opens with 150 drops by the glass

  • Tomas Telegramma
Sandwich from Moorabbin’s Marko’s Schnitzel.

A tradie hotspot makes one of Melbourne’s top schnitzel sangers

  • Tomas Telegramma
Black Star Pastry’s signature watermelon cake.

No more strawberry-watermelon cake as Black Star departs, closes outlets

  • Tomas Telegramma

Lists & guides

A huge spread of Filipino food at Pinoy Diner.

The underdog of South-East Asian cuisines finally has its moment (and here’s where to get the best)

Skip parma and steak nights and try these 12 pub specials under $30 instead

Skip parma and steak nights and try these 12 pub specials under $30 instead

Chongqing chilli chicken.

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

Rossi’s gnocchi comes with a choice of (clockwise from top right) carbonara, wagyu beef ragu or roasted pumpkin sauce.

15 of Melbourne’s best pasta deals from gnocchi to $20 lobster linguine

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

Recent reviews

Southall’s keema naan (left) and Gruyere naan.
14/20

Second to naan: Which of longstanding Indian restaurant Southall’s stuffed breads is best?

  • Dani Valent
The go-to dish: Chilli oil parfait is a riot of bold flavours.
Good Food hat15/20

Lygon Street favourite Etta gets a new chef, and a hot new ‘mind-bending’ chilli dessert

  • Besha Rodell
Carnation Canteen is a glowing beacon on a Fitzroy corner.
14.5/20

Daffodils, olive oil, custard cake: This tiny restaurant in a corner store is a pot of gold

  • Dani Valent
Stacks of simit, a sesame-studded bread ring that is a popular Turkish street food.

Melbourne Turkish bakery’s simit runs rings around the competition

  • Dani Valent
Go-to dish: Tempura hot rolls filled with avocado and topped with a slice of strawberry.
14/20

Bet you’ve never had a hot sushi roll like the ones at Oshan before, Melbourne

  • Dani Valent

Recipes

Adam Liaw recipe: Chicken parmigiana.

Adam Liaw’s step-by-step guide to making the perfect chicken parma

You won’t find it in Italy. But in Australia, the popular pub meal is vying for national dish status, whether you call it parma or parmi.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s niku udon (beef udon noodle soup).

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s niku udon (Japanese beef noodle soup)

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Sarah Pound Mediterranean recipes

The nutritionist’s guide to healthy Med-style eating (plus new recipes)

  • Sarah Pound
Potato skins with chicken salt and sour cream.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s potato skins with chicken salt and sour cream

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw

Recipe collections

Alvarez prefers pappardelle pasta here because of its silkiness and the way it wraps up the ragu.

Pappardelle don’t preach: Five silky pasta sauces to make this weekend

Danielle Alvarez’s spicy shiitake and cabbage udon.

Ready in an instant: 15 speedy new ways to use your noodles

Lemony pork chops.

14 speedy dinners with six ingredients (or less!) to make this week

Lamb shanks in red wine sauce.

The comfort zone: Good Food’s 50 most popular winter recipes of all time

Helen Goh’s French onion loaf.

Five cheesy spins on French onion soup to make this weekend

RecipeTin Eats’ crispy smashed potatoes.

Treasure that winning feeling with these 18 golden recipes

14 lap-friendly dishes for couch potatoes

14 lap-friendly dishes for couch potatoes

Shakshuka meets savoury bread-and-butter pudding in this share-friendly brunch dish.

Five simple ways to make plain (and slightly stale) croissants something special

From ‘embarrassingly simple’ pasta to one-pot wonders: The 20 most popular recipes of July

From ‘embarrassingly simple’ pasta to one-pot wonders: The 20 most popular recipes of July

40 fantastique French recipes for the Paris Olympics (and beyond)

40 fantastique French recipes for the Paris Olympics (and beyond)

RecipeTin Eats’ chicken chowder.

14 of our favourite RecipeTin Eats one-pot wonders to cook this week

Serving suggestion: Chicken shish with flatbread, hot chips, yoghurt and mint.

Eight great kebab and souvlaki recipes for a relaxed meal with mates

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Tips & advice

Buy stackable containers so you can efficiently store pre-prepared (and labelled) ingredients.

The ultimate guide to what you can (and can’t) put in your freezer

  • Alice Zaslavsky
Sarah Pound Mediterranean recipes

The nutritionist’s guide to Mediterranean-style eating (plus recipes)

  • Sarah Pound
Which pepperoni pizza passed the taste test?

Ahh McCain, did you do it again? Eight frozen pepperoni pizzas tasted and rated

  • Nina Rousseau
Danielle Alvarez’s one-pot chicken, spinach and orzo stew.

Five dietitian-approved supermarket swaps that will save you money (and taste good)

  • Susie Burrell

Around the world in potatoes: What’s the greatest spud dish of them all?

  • Terry Durack

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Drinks

Do you judge a wine bottle by its label? The origins of some local designs might surprise

  • Huon Hooke
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

More from Good Food

Katie McCormack, who the award aims to honour in both name and spirit.

New $10,000 prize to open doors for rising stars of restaurant service

  • Emma Breheny
Good Food Guide tote bundle available from The Store.

The Good Food Guide 2024 magazines are on sale now

Popular on Good Food

RecipeTin Eats’ Greek chicken and potato tray bake.

14 of our favourite easy tray bakes to make this week

Don’t ditch the vegetable oil, just learn to use it properly, says Adam Liaw

  • Adam Liaw
Pork katsu curry.

Keep warm and curry on at this cosy Japanese cafe, Melbourne

  • Dani Valent
A huge spread of Filipino food at Pinoy Diner.

The underdog of South-East Asian cuisines finally has its moment (and here’s where to get the best)

  • Cheyenne Bardos
Buy stackable containers so you can efficiently store pre-prepared (and labelled) ingredients.

The ultimate guide to what you can (and can’t) put in your freezer

  • Alice Zaslavsky
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