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How to dine like you’re in Paris (without the European summer)

Chris Lucas pays homage to the glory days with his over-the-top Melbourne bistro Maison Bâtard.

Guess who’s unhappy about the surcharge ban? Cafes and retailers

Small business says it will be the “piggy in the middle” as banks and credit card providers won’t lower fees enough to cover the loss of revenue.

Linchpin Hospitality chief executive Terry Soukoulis (left) with chef and culinary director George Calombaris.

Celebrity chef George Calombaris can’t escape drama

With his track record at Fair Work, one might think Calombaris would avoid of even a whiff of an unhappy worker.

Why Sydney has been declared the steak capital of the world

Nowhere else in the world can boast as many officially lauded steak restaurants. Self-confessed beef boffin Neil Perry tells us what’s going on.

June

Josh and Julie Niland at The Grand National.

Hotel dining used to be bland. Now it’s reinventing room service

Renowned chefs are stepping out of the kitchen to become hoteliers.

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Maido is named World’s Best Restaurant for 2025.

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.

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Birmingham new ABA chief; PwC profit slumps; 50 best restaurants

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Justin Hemmes is attempting to win over his future neighbours as Merivale expands to Melbourne.

‘How very Sydney’: Justin Hemmes forced to unleash charm offensive

The party king and billionaire has long had his eye on the southern capital. But he may have met his match in Melbourne’s establishment.

Chef Hugh Allen (left) and architect John Wardle on site as construction on Yiaga continues.

2 top Melbourne creatives join forces for a new restaurant

This new fine diner set in Fitzroy Gardens will be a homage to Melbourne.

This meat just became legal in Australia (and we tried it first)

One local producer is ready to start filling restaurants and supermarket shelves with lab-grown meat, a product on the cutting edge of food technology. Would you eat it?

Crown Sydney features 349 guest rooms. It has been inundated with complaints about cleaning standards.

Ripped sheets, urine stains, no towels: Crown guests slam dirty rooms

Travel reviews on booking websites have complained about the firm’s cleaning standards for Sydney rooms that cost nearly $700 a night.

Meet Australia’s hospitality power couples

Josh and Julie Niland, Vicki Wild and Martin Benn, and Brett Robinson and Anna Hewett share the highs and lows of sharing your career with your spouse.

May

Neil Perry gives the lazy susan at Song Bird a spin

The chef and restaurateur rejects industry talk he’s sought a buyer for the restaurant but says: “If I had a magic wand, I’d go back to doing what I love.”

Eleven Barrck, Sydney: Designers Pascale Gomes-McNabb and Chris Grinham have brought the massive height of the room down to a human scale by making it clubby and comfortable.

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.

If you’re on Ozempic, you might not want much more than this for your main.

How Ozempic is changing the dinner date

The rising popularity of appetite-suppressing weight-loss drugs is creating new etiquette questions for restaurant diners.

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The coolest place in Hobart to dine – literally

Institut Polaire, on the Tasmanian capital’s waterfront, is embracing the city’s Antarctic frontier.

Con Christopoulos at his restaurant Kafeneion on Spring Street in Melbourne.

At this restaurant, rush hour can last until 2am and beyond

In stressful economic times, restaurateurs are finding good food alone is not enough. Diners want an experience, preferably with a side of entertainment.

Bianca Marchi-Simon at Bianca restaurant.

From international student to restaurant entrepreneur in a decade

Biànca Marchi-Simon is part of a team that has reshaped Brisbane dining in just five years. Now they’re on the verge of another big expansion.

“People can be quite reserved when they don’t know each other.”

The (new) rules of business lunch etiquette

Our experts discuss the changing dynamics of business dining, right down to the place cards.

Dutton dines out in the mean streets of his favourite city

The defeated Liberal leader has bravely defied the threat of gang crime and abandoned restaurants in Melbourne’s CBD.

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