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Manu Feildel will focus on ‘delicious, approachable food’ at his new venue.

11 old Sydney pubs, all done up and ideal for your Father’s Day celebrations

From casual courtyard dining to more formal fine-dining, these much-loved Sydney pubs have reopened recently and have really upped their food and drink offerings.

Steak with store-bought crispy chilli oil is a midweek favourite of Nagi Maehashi aka RecipeTin Eats.

Crunch time: 20+ ways with crispy chilli oil (plus how to make your own at home)

Chilli oil belongs over fried eggs; it wants to accompany your avocado and it’s never met a bowl of noodles it didn’t like.

‘It’s my last restaurant’, Neil Perry vows as he opens Chinese-inspired 240-seater

Three-level venue Song Bird is an ode to Sydney’s Cantonese restaurants, with an opening menu that leans heavily on classics.

  • Scott Bolles
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Crisp-skinned red mullet on sauce Americaine with fregola.
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‘Make a mess’: This beachside bolthole puts the fun into fine dining

Head chef Luke Churchill’s menu is simultaneously serious and playful, running from sultry little snacks to big-ticket, kick-up-your-heels items.

  • Terry Durack
Home-made bone broth is inexpensive to make and nourishing to eat.

This pot of gold is one of the most nourishing things you can eat, plus it’s cheap and easy to make

A rich, long-simmered bone broth is the secret to these nourishing, big-flavoured dishes.

  • Rosheen Kaul

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Swillhouse scandal

Sex, sleaze and Swillhouse: The sinister side of the glitzy hospitality scene

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Bianca Hrovat
The old bank vault door at Swillhouse’s the Baxter Inn.

The sordid bet that unfolded behind the bank vault door at Baxter Inn

  • Bianca Hrovat and Eryk Bagshaw
Main: Rachelle “Rocky’ Hair”. Inset: Jenna Hemsworth.

‘I hope you learn’: Two brave women go public with claims against Swillhouse

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Bianca Hrovat
The interior at Maggie’s Snacks and Liquor in Brunswick.

‘It’s a toxic culture’: The sexual assault reckoning in the hospitality industry

  • Dani Valent
Le Foote restaurant in The Rocks.

Inside the Herald’s investigation into sex and sleaze in Sydney’s hospitality industry

  • Bevan Shields and Sarah Norris

Eating out

Street-food feasts for under $10 a head make Miss Ary a winner

For incredibly cheap Korean cooking, such as tteokbokki, fried chicken and wobbly milk bunnies, it’s hard to go past this Strathfield hot spot.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Bobbie’s co-owners Linden Pride (left) and Neil Perry.

Chef Neil Perry opens first standalone bar with New York bar guru

  • Scott Bolles
North Sydney has become a banh mi bonanza.

The six best things to eat and drink at the new Victoria Cross Station in North Sydney

  • Callan Boys, Sarah Norris and Bianca Hrovat
A wall of vending machines at Gacha Cafe.

Getcha self to this fun gacha spot for snacks that taste just like Japan

  • Lee Tran Lam

Lists & guides

Manu Feildel will focus on ‘delicious, approachable food’ at his new venue.

11 old Sydney pubs, all done up and ideal for your Father’s Day celebrations

People enjoy dinner at the chef table at the Emerald room in Darlinghurst.

From burlesque to jazz: 10 of Sydney’s best venues for dinner and a show

Hotel Harry’s burger range costs $10 with chips.

Where to get this burger and fries for just $10 plus nine more juicy specials

Sharing a Filipino feast at Let’s Chon.

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

Pie, creamy mash and peas are the $22 special at The Woolwich.

From posh pies to juicy pork chops: 10 of Sydney’s best pub dining specials

The Classic smashburger with chips and watermelon soda.

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

Pasta and wine at Cafe Fredas.

Fine Italian dining on a budget: 10 of Sydney’s best pasta nights

Steak frites at L’Auberge du Bout du Monde.

Six of Sydney’s best steak frites

Caterpillar Club’s long (very long) bar rarely has a free seat.

Our eight favourite new Sydney restaurants and bars of the year (so far)

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

Unlimited wine and beer accompany Lilymu’s sharing lunch menu.

From tacos and margs to steaming hot mussels: 15 of Sydney’s best bottomless dining deals

Get a load of this: Lode’s limited edition pie for its Aperture menu at Capella. 

We lift the (extra flaky) lid on 10 of Sydney’s hottest pies to try, right now

Recent reviews

Crisp-skinned red mullet on sauce Americaine with fregola.
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‘Make a mess’: Beachside bolthole Table Manners puts the fun into fine dining

  • Terry Durack
Allta’s timber slats arch over diners like a blond wood Hokusai wave.
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‘One to watch and then some’: Two-hatted newcomer Allta is fancy and a lot of fun

  • Callan Boys

Street-food feasts for under $10 a head make suburban spot Miss ary a winner

  • Lenny Ann Low
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Beachside dining can be a hard sell in winter. Until Coogee Wine Room reinvented itself

  • Terry Durack
Comedor is a good-looking space set in a century-old warehouse.
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New modern Mexican Comedor brings the fiesta to the inner west, and gets a hat

  • Callan Boys

Recipes

Adam Liaw’s garlic and brie baguette (left) and Katrina Meynink’s garlic bread cobb loaf bowl (centre) and Greek-inspired pull-apart rolls with lemon, honey and garlic (right).

Cheesy does it: The 30 most popular new recipes of winter

’Twas the season for one-pots, spiced chickpeas and soups. Plus three(!) cheesy garlicky breads upped the comfort factor.

Bone broth hotpot has endless possibilities, depending on what you dunk in.

Rosheen Kaul’s bone broth hotpot

  • Rosheen Kaul
Plain old lemon tart.

How to make cult Melbourne pastry shop Tarts Anon’s elegant lemon tart

  • Gareth Whitton and Catherine Way
You won’t easily forget this cake “for lost things”.
EASY

Saint Phanourios cake with orange, apple and walnut

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh

Recipe collections

Steak with store-bought crispy chilli oil and simple sides is a midweek favourite.

Crunch time: 20+ ways with crispy chilli oil (plus how to make your own)

Red curry barramundi.

Curry in a hurry: Eight delicious dishes made quicker and cheaper with red curry paste

Sicilian citrus salad.

14 vivacious vegetarian recipes to cook this week (plus this bonus sunny salad)

RecipeTin Eats’ 20-minute Thai chicken satay curry.

50 of our best ever chicken recipes (starring RecipeTin’s record-breaking curry)

Adam Liaw recipe: Spaghetti with pumpkin, thyme and brown butter. Photograph by William Meppem. Archive image rotated.

Give it a twirl: 50 of our favourite pasta recipes of all time

RecipeTin Eats’ Greek chicken and potato tray bake.

14 of our favourite easy tray bakes to make this week

Julia’s tip: You can use baby spinach in the filling but English spinach has a far superior flavour.

20 crowd-pleasing Julia Busuttil Nishimura recipes for every occasion

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

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Tips & advice

Salad nicoise makes a protein- and vegetable-rich lunch.

Scandi food to the ‘French paradox’: Top tips from the world’s healthiest cuisines

  • Susie Burrell

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

  • Adam Liaw
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

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Drinks

Lisa Guenther-Strauss has opened a wine bar in Sydney devoted to NSW wines.

Australian fine wines are world-class. So why don’t they dominate our drinks lists?

  • Katie Spain

How to tell if a red wine will age well

  • Huon Hooke

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Manu Feildel will focus on ‘delicious, approachable food’ at his new venue.

11 old Sydney pubs, all done up and ideal for your Father’s Day celebrations

‘It’s my last restaurant’, Neil Perry vows as he opens Chinese-inspired 240-seater

  • Scott Bolles
Steak with store-bought crispy chilli oil is a midweek favourite of Nagi Maehashi aka RecipeTin Eats.

Crunch time: 20+ ways with crispy chilli oil (plus how to make your own at home)

Home-made bone broth is inexpensive to make and nourishing to eat.

This pot of gold is one of the most nourishing things you can eat, plus it’s cheap and easy to make

  • Rosheen Kaul
Adam Liaw’s garlic and brie baguette (left) and Katrina Meynink’s garlic bread cobb loaf bowl (centre) and Greek-inspired pull-apart rolls with lemon, honey and garlic (right).

Cheesy does it: The 30 most popular new recipes of winter 2024