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BYO

Spicy Wicket

Roomy restaurant for great-value lunch set and more.

Hanoi-style bun cha with grilled pork.

Thy Thy Counter & Canteen

Joyful new iteration of a Viet-Naarm institution.

Preparing the duck.

Simon’s Peiking Duck

A singular dining experience, at once casual and celebratory.

Sarma (cabbage rolls) at Balkan Skara.

It’s worth the drive just for the cabbage rolls at this suburban Macedonian diner

Marijan Nikolovski and his family serve kebapi sausages, flavour-forward dips and more at Balkan Skara in Melbourne’s north.

  • Dani Valent
The prawn toast uses fluffy Japanese shokupan bread.
14/20

You’ll hit the jackpot at this suburban Chinese restaurant with heart – and perfect prawn toast

Come for the dumplings and prawn toast, stay for the warm, cosy atmosphere at convivial Potluck.

  • Dani Valent
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Mami’s owner Erendira Mercado with her mother Lidia.

Sydney’s best BYO restaurants (and the wines to bring)

There’s no such thing as a cuisine that can’t be wine matched, from Italian reds with pizza to something fizzy to drink with Thai.

  • Billy De Luca
Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang.
14/20

This Korean restaurant only sells one type of soup, but the queue starts early

Sydney has a new holder for the title of Koreatown. “I didn’t expect it to be so popular,” says the chef of Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang in the thriving new hub.

  • Kevin Cheng
Lamb plate at Kababi.

Kababi

Where Melbourne and Persian influences meet.

  • Emma Breheny
Jessie and Tony Peng are the wife-and-husband owners of Fishboy Kitchen.
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Sydney’s most authentic Hong Kong food is not where you might expect it

Hop on the shiny new Parramatta light rail to this modest suburban eatery and join the throng of expats seeking a taste of home at Fishboy Kitchen.

  • Helen Yee
Tear the dosa, dip it in sambar and enjoy.
14/20

A former real estate office is now home to one of Melbourne’s best South Indian restaurants

Vegetarian Udupi restaurant Sri Ananda Bhavan will impress dosa snobs and novices alike.

  • Dani Valent

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