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Emma Breheny

Emma Breheny

Melbourne eating out and restaurant editor

Emma is Good Food’s Melbourne eating out and restaurant editor.

Omo cafe is styled on Tokyo’s kissaten.

Relive your magical trip to Japan at these nine Melbourne venues

Pocket-sized sushi restaurants, old-school Tokyo-style cafes, and affordable delis with build-your-own bentos are just the tip of a rapidly growing and highly specialised Japanese scene.

  • Emma Breheny
The Everleigh (left) and Bar Margaux.

A leading Melbourne cocktail bar and its city basement sibling announce closure

Pioneering Fitzroy bar and a late-night underground bistro have gone into liquidation.

  • Kosa Monteith and Emma Breheny
Justin Hemmes pictured outside one of his Sydney venues in 2022.

What’s happening with Merivale’s original Melbourne restaurant?

The Sydney-based hospitality giant has just snapped up a new site in Melbourne, with grand plans for a drinking and dining precinct. Where does that leave its first purchase, made nearly four years ago?

  • Emma Breheny
Chilled tofu with syrup.

Doughnuts, ice-cream and nuggets: How this tiny shop puts a creative spin on tofu

A small-batch tofu maker is pushing perceptions of the vegetarian staple into new territory, using McDonald’s, low-waste cooking and more for inspiration.

  • Emma Breheny
Barragunda is a set on 400 hectares that supply lamb, beef, rye wheat and dozens of varieties of vegetables and fruit.

This new Mornington Peninsula fine diner is one of Australia’s most ambitious restaurants of the decade

On a sprawling 400 hectares, this new spot rears lamb and cattle, grows its own rye wheat and transforms its harvest into Middle Eastern-tinged tasting menus.

  • Emma Breheny
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Lamb plate at Kababi.

Kababi

Where Melbourne and Persian influences meet.

  • Emma Breheny
St John’s first restaurant in Smithfield is known for its stark and understated dining room.

‘They’re restaurant royalty’: Trailblazing London eatery coming to Melbourne

Chefs love it – but so do artists, bankers and everyone in between. It has created dozens of iconic dishes. What’s in store when this decades-old favourite comes to town?

  • Emma Breheny
Siconi Gelato offers puppy ice-cream at its shops.

Siconi Gelato

Pooch scoops are among the nearly 50 flavours on offer.

  • Emma Breheny
Fluffy Torpedo’s second location in Brunswick sells more than 30 flavours.

Fluffy Torpedo

More than 30 unique flavours.

  • Emma Breheny
Hareruya Pantry in Carlton - just open with gelato-filled mochi, sandos, bentos and musubi. By the Le Bajo Milkbar and 279 team.
For Good Food, 1 July, 2022

Hareruya Pantry

Specialising in Japanese desserts like mochi-wrapped gelato.

  • Emma Breheny

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