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Fanda Group’s Maui Manu, Ollie Hansford and David Flynn.

Rick Shores team to launch venue in heritage Brisbane apartment block

The old Merivale apartments are being transformed into a 110-seat venue that features nine distinct dining and bar areas.

  • Matt Shea
How do you keep your flat-leaf parsley from flopping?

How to make supermarket herbs last longer and go further

Tired of sad, wilting basil and past-it parsley? Bushy, flourishing plants are possible, as are longer-lasting packets, with these tips.

  • Sue Quinn
Classic pumpkin soup.

Three wholesome nutritionist-approved soups to fight colds and flu

Beat the sniffles with these easy (and family-friendly) soups designed to boost your immunity.

  • Sarah Pound
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This speedy chicken stir-fry is sticky, sweet, savoury and a little bit spicy.

25 of RecipeTin Eats’ best midweek dinners you’ll make again and again

Quick to prepare, delicious to eat, with just 12 ingredients or less, these are the keepers your whole crew will love, and request on repeat.

Very short lemon shortbread.

These sigh-worthy lemon shortbread biscuits are perfect with a cup of tea

Delicately short and buttery, with just enough zing from the zest, these treats keep exceptionally well.

  • Tilly Pamment

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Investigations

Hemmes gif day 2

How Justin Hemmes went from party-boy billionaire to political operator

  • Eryk Bagshaw, Bianca Hrovat and Natalie Clancy
Rodrigo Zavaleta worked across four Merivale venues for five years

Mexican chefs were sold the Australian dream by Merivale. It was all ‘smoke screens’

  • Bianca Hrovat, Eryk Bagshaw and Natalie Clancy
Merivale Day 3 gif

How a cricket bag full of cash helped spawn Merivale’s multibillion-dollar empire

  • Lucy Macken

‘He has destroyed my life’: Emma’s nightmare in the heart of the Terzini empire

  • Clare Sibthorpe, Eryk Bagshaw and Natalie Clancy
Justin Hemmes and Melbourne Lord Mayor Nick Reece at Merivale’s Ivy complex in Sydney.

‘We’ve let the wolf into the den’: Allegations against Merivale raise concerns in Melbourne

  • Cara Waters

Recipes

Very short lemon shortbread.

These sigh-worthy lemon biscuits are perfect with a cup of tea

Delicately short and buttery, with just enough zing from the zest, these treats keep exceptionally well.

  • Tilly Pamment
Japanese-style chicken schnitzel curry.
EASY

Take a few shortcuts for this Japanese-style schnitzel curry

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s one-pan chicken with pumpkin, coriander and chickpeas.
EASY

Minimal effort, max flavour: This one-pan chicken is high-reward midweek cooking

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Adam Liaw’s coq au vin.

Adam Liaw shares the steps to reaching ‘coq au vin heaven’

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw

Recipe collections

This speedy chicken stir-fry is sticky, sweet, savoury and a little bit spicy.

25 of RecipeTin Eats’ best midweek dinners you’ll make again and again

Serve the pork on a bed of the roasted apple, onion and carrot.

Eight classic roasts (plus new sides to go with them) to cook this weekend

Danielle Alvarez’s chicken, chorizo and rice bake with dill and feta herb salad.

Rice and easy does it: 20+ budget-minded midweek one-pot wonders

Winter citrus includes orange, mandarin and lime.

Five healthy yoghurt bowls to whip up this week

Leaf salad with parsley vinaigrette.

Adam Liaw’s simple green salads for every occasion

Quick red curry of chicken.

Neil Perry’s 50 all-time greatest winter recipes

The options for adding your own creativity to zucchini slice are endless.

Zucc yeah! The unlikely star of our 50 most popular recipes of 2025

Helen Goh’s apple cake with maple oat crisp.

10 irresistible crumble cakes (and a bonus cookie) to make this week

Bake your super green mac and cheese until it’s golden and bubbling.

14 nourishing vegie winter warmers (that aren’t soup) to make this week

Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.

15 hearty winter pasta recipes to cook this week

Adam Liaw’s version of the viral internet dish Marry me chicken.

14 satisfying stews and one-pot wonders (starring marry me chicken)

Lamb shanks in red wine sauce.

14 easy warming winter recipes to sink into this week

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Tips & advice

How do you keep your flat-leaf parsley from flopping?

How to make supermarket herbs last longer and go further

  • Sue Quinn
Sprinkle chiafor heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids andnutrients including magnesium, niacin, phosphorus and zinc.

Sprinkle these super seeds into meals for an instant health hit

  • Leah Koenig
Can’t decide between a sausage and a burger at a barbecue? Why not have both?

How to keep ravenous teens full (without blowing the budget)

  • Nina Rousseau
How to roll your own sushi at home

Yes, it is easy to make decent sushi at home. Here’s where to begin

  • Dani Valent
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s white bean, cavalo nero and parmesan soup.

Simple new twists that make our six favourite soups even better

  • The Good Food team

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Essential cafes and bakeries

Customers outside Artificer, Surry Hills.

Sydney cafes aren’t what they used to be. They’re better

  • Bianca Hrovat
Cakes, like this strawberry shortcake, are Khanom Bakery founder Yeen Veerasenee’s specialty.

110 essential Sydney cafes and bakeries that really take the cake (and everything else)

What going out for breakfast means in Melbourne in 2025

What going out for breakfast means in Melbourne in 2025

  • Emma Breheny
Assorted cakes at Tori”s.

107 essential Melbourne cafes and bakeries that really take the cake (and everything else)

Brunetti restaurant in Lygon St, Carlton.

Can you truly call yourself a Melburnian if you haven’t tried these iconic venues?

  • Good Food

Drinks

Aldi winter wines

Winter’s best wines for $30 or less (including Aldi’s ‘astounding’ reds)

  • Katie Spain

If guests bring a bottle of wine to a dinner party, do you have to open it?

  • Huon Hooke

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