Yesterday
The world’s 50 best restaurants for 2025 have been revealed
The year’s finest dining locations are no longer a secret. Here are the winners and why Australia missed out – but made the runners-up list.
May
The restaurant that’s turning back the clock (in the best way)
The Bentley team hit the big time in one of Sydney’s most palatial dining rooms.
‘Just like a Sunday roast’: How to make these world-famous meatballs
Here’s the secret recipe for a big-selling off-the-menu dish from Carbone in New York. We’re excited for you.
The coolest place in Hobart to dine – literally
Institut Polaire, on the Tasmanian capital’s waterfront, is embracing the city’s Antarctic frontier.
The (new) rules of business lunch etiquette
Our experts discuss the changing dynamics of business dining, right down to the place cards.
This is the place to take someone when you want them to say ‘yes’
Brisbane’s top lunch destinations include a packed dining room that canonises grills and seafood, and the luxe, laid-back version of a Melbourne institution.
The city blending the best of Melbourne and Sydney
From kangaroo tartare to crab spaghettini and mighty robata grills, here’s where to book the best business lunches in Canberra, Darwin and Hobart.
The city with ‘a ripper of a business lunch venue’
Take a look at Adelaide’s best, including the legal district favourite serving red curry cheeseburgers and the Italian eatery with the city’s best dry martini.
Sydney’s best restaurants for a business lunch
Our picks include a menu straight from the Italian comfort food playbook, a classy, clubby venue with a trolley of rum and the pub diner that leaves no room for pokies.
Melbourne’s best restaurants for a business lunch
The city’s oldest Japanese restaurant, a laneway gem with a 135-page wine list, the bustling brasserie you can only book by phone and more.
Fin Dining & Wine, the AFR’s restaurant guide, is back
Our guide to 50 Australian restaurants at the top of their food game that also understand the particular needs of those doing business over lunch.
This restaurant has New York buzz. You’ll never guess where it is
Glossy, modernist and theatrical, Fugazzi is Adelaide’s beating heart of pasta, wine and good times.
April
This cocktail ‘omakase’ is the next best thing to visiting Tokyo
+81 Aizome Bar in Brisbane is an intimate, 10-seater bar serving peach sparkling sake and pink watermelon coladas in surrounds inspired by Japan.
Don’t miss round two of this Michelin-starred pop-up in Sydney
If you didn’t make it to L’Enclume’s first residency at Bathers Pavilion on Balmoral Beach, here’s your chance.
March
This Brisbane restaurant deserves a Michelin star
Chef Dan Arnold brings a Michelin-style rigour to the Brisbane fine dining scene.
From whitebait fritters to hangi, eat your way around NZ
Top chef Vaughan Mabee of Amisfield in Queenstown shares the best places to dine in New Zealand, from fish and chip vans to remote fine dining destinations.
February
Martinis and bikinis at Melbourne’s hot new restaurant
Melbourne didn’t need a high-end Portuguese restaurant. But it will want this one.
January
New shows, ‘worship-worthy’ products you need to know about
A few things to inspire from the Currency section of our Arts & Culture issue out on January 31.
The International: Sydney’s new spot for power listers
To kick off her new restaurant review column, Jill Dupleix visits The Grill at The International in Sydney’s Martin Place.
The ultimate in destination dining around Australia
At these restaurants, located from the Gold Coast to the Mornington Peninsula and the Adelaide Hills, the setting is a fundamental ingredient.