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The bottom line: Which restaurant dining chair is best? It depends on this equation

When settling in for an 18-course degustation, I’ll be needing upholstery, writes Terry Durack.

  • Terry Durack
Falafel with tahini, pickles and zhoug.
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One of Melbourne’s favourite falafel crosses the river to get to this southside bar

It’s worth coming to cocktail bar Nobody’s Baby for the crunchy-fluffy falafel alone.

  • Dani Valent

Why are Gen Z and Millennials moving away from drinking wine?

Australians have only really been wine drinkers since the “wine boom” of the late 1960s, writes Huon Hooke.

  • Huon Hooke

When it comes to dinner plates, it’s not hip to be square

My heart stubbornly belongs to the plain, round white plate.

  • Terry Durack
Mains, such as inside skirt steak, come with a salad, Colombian-style sauces – one a lemony sour cream, the other a zesty tomato – and a choice of fries, rice, plantain fritters, cassava chips or golden potatoes (pictured).
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This surprising steakhouse serves limousine food at rust-bucket prices

Juan Berbeo of Berbeo Bar & Grill isn’t our best-known steak specialist, but it’s hard to imagine many local chefs have cooked as much meat as he has.

  • Dani Valent
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‘Revolutionary’ Tassie shiraz, Italian grapes: How climate change is altering our wine map

Many Australian wine regions, including cooler climates, are swinging to vines that tolerate heat and drought.

  • Huon Hooke
Thali on a banana leaf.
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‘The flavours are alive’: Roll up your sleeves for this $30 all-you-can-eat weekend special

Sri Lankans will often tell you that food tastes better when eaten with the fingers. Dani Valent tests the theory at Prince of Yazh.

  • Dani Valent
Yan’s dining room feels much cosier than the building it inhabits.
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‘Damn good value’: Why it’s worth visiting this humble suburban bolthole

Locals flock to one-hatted Yan for natural-born-killer dishes humming with garlic, a towering dessert and moments of elegance.

  • Callan Boys

A roast is no longer Sunday’s best food ritual, but it’s all gravy

The weekly roast dinner may have gone the way of church attendance, but new rituals have sprung up in its place.

  • Terry Durack
The dining room’s arched Gothic-style windows face Collins Street.
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This restaurant will write a menu to suit your whims. But how does that work in practice?

This gorgeous city venue promises each diner a bespoke menu, a bit like having a private chef. But with food this good, Dani Valent questions the need for such a gimmick.

  • Dani Valent

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