Good Weekend

At the recent World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards, chef chatter ranged from the profound to the ridiculous.

Blackboard specials, a serious meat-slicer and a legendary dessert: tick, tick, tick. Cicci is the cosiest of cosy neighbourhood trattorias.

It can be difficult to decide which pork dish to order at Mrs Parks Kitchen. So don’t. Order the lot and take home the leftovers.

It depends on whether they make it known, subtly or otherwise, that they’d like to drink it.

Terry Durack raises a glass to the ritual of an after-work drink and snack.

Ostentatious and theatrical, OTT Vietnamese steakhouse TungThit makes an impact on scruffy Victoria Street.

Screw-caps are a great seal, but sometimes they just refuse to budge.

Does the basement restaurant still feel right after it flooded and closed for a seven-month rebuild? Yes, and then some.

In the interests of sparking more interesting discussions around the tables of Australia, I hereby pass on 10 questions to help break the ice.

Tomo-An chef Tomotaka Ishizuka serves his Aussie-fied Japanese tasting menu to six guests at a time.