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National eating out and restaurant editor
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- Review
- Terrey Hills
‘Beaut little hub’: This rebadged suburban spot crackles with community spirit
McCarrs on Mona Vale Road is an excellent place to sit by the fire and share pizza slices topped with pepperoni, honey and chilli.
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- Review
- Balmain
In a city with too many tiramisus on menus, this is the original (and perhaps the best)
Blackboard specials, a serious meat-slicer and a legendary dessert: tick, tick, tick. Cicci is the cosiest of cosy neighbourhood trattorias.
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- Recommended
- Hamilton
Snack on tinned fish and cheese at a tiny light-filled wine shop in Newcastle
Vera Wine is one of the smallest bars in the state, with a mighty natural wine selection.
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- Review
- Enmore
The family-run bar our critic would be stoked to have on his own street
From the fried chicken sandwich on good-on-ya-mum white bread to the puffy salt-and-vinegar potato scallops, Mixed Business Enmore is nostalgia made manifest.
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- Review
- Sydney
Ten years on, Good Food visits Bennelong to see if it still delivers big-ticket thrills
It’s arguably Sydney’s most “Sydney” restaurant, but does the Opera House’s flagship venue still fulfil its ambition?
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- Review
- Bowral
This old-school regional Chinese restaurant is a delicious time-warp to the 1970s
Prawn toast, fried ice-cream and red lanterns abound at a Southern Highlands institution still going strong after 50 years.
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This regional post office may be home to the best burger in Australia
It’s a very bold claim, but this country-comfort burger is a tower of fresh taste where each bite is underlined by a different ingredient.
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- Review
- Haymarket
‘Put your face in a hot pot’: This no-frills Thai diner is your new BYO winter spot
Khao Kang Maruay is a modest restaurant that specialises in Isan-style cooking from Thailand’s north-east.
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Sydney fine-diner moves up in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants longlist
The three-hatted seafood restaurant didn’t crack the top 50, but came in much higher than last year.
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- Review
- Haymarket
Haymarket’s revamped Paddy’s Markets vowed to be a first-rate food hub. It didn’t deliver
It might serve a very good martini and excellent chips, but Callan Boys chalks it up as another entry on Sydney’s board of missed opportunities.
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