• Recipe collection
• Christmas

Food, glorious food! The Good Weekend recipe crew’s new Christmas menu

Make your 2025 festive feast one to remember – and not a ham in sight!

• Review
• Kensington

The ‘Dirty Gutter’ is spruced up into a charmer with a ‘bloody good’ parma

Hitting classic pub tropes, the new-look Doutta Galla Hotel, aka The Doot, is a hoot.

• Dani Valent

• The Full Bottle

If a bottle label says ‘drink now or cellar for 5-10 years’, when is the wine really at its best?

The idea that all wine improves with age is a popular myth, writes Huon Hooke.

• Huon Hooke

• Review
• Dingley Village

This canteen in an industrial precinct serves some of Melbourne’s best Malaysian food

Choose dishes from up to 30 bain-marie trays to build your own rice plate at Matt Malaysian.

• Dani Valent

• Review
• Newtown

Continental Deli crew’s new Newtown spot channels New York vibes with a cherry on top

Joe’s Tavern has opened in the former home of vegetarian venue Flora, and it’s quite the flip: out with the mushroom bolognese, in with a pig or lamb plate.

• Callan Boys

• Opinion
• The Empty Plate

All that and a bag of… Why the best snack is the one you have to work for

What your favourite snack says about you.

• Terry Durack

• Review
• Docklands

Why our critic was blown away by this newly hatted Melbourne hotel restaurant

It was a tough sell, but Sydney chef Mike McEnearney’s From Here By Mike is one of the openings of the year.

• Dani Valent

• The Full Bottle

The one thing that can ruin your most prized bottle of wine

Bottle variation is a reality, but it’s misnamed. Our impression of wine varies according to what else is going on around us.

• Huon Hooke

• Opinion
• The Empty Plate

There’s only one picnic food that won’t betray you with mess or spoilage

It’s portable, shareable, easy to eat and highly delicious, writes Terry Durack.

• Terry Durack

• Review
• Port Melbourne

Katy Perry booked out this entire venue, and you might find yourself belting out a tune, too

Dani Valent said this experience restaurant initially had the awkwardness of an office team-building exercise, but the ick was erased by a sustained good vibe.

• Dani Valent