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The great Good Food Melbourne croissant taste test.

Good Food ranked Melbourne’s best croissants, and a surprise suburban bakery took top spot

Six Good Food judges blind tasted 23 buttery pastries to find the city’s No.1, from Baker Bleu to Bread Club. Spoiler alert, Lune, isn’t number one.

  • Emma Breheny
Hot dogs at the footy are a stale disappointment.

Hot pies, cold hot dogs: Five classic footy foods ranked from wurst to best

With AFL season 2025 finally about to kick off, here is the only ladder that really matters – the definitive ranking of footy stadium food favourites.

  • Andrea McGinniss
A selection of the 25 croissants sampled as part of the Good Food croissant taste test.

Good Food ranks Sydney’s best croissants (and Lune isn’t number one)

Five judges blind taste 27 buttery pastries in a quest to find the city’s number one. (Yes, it almost killed us, but this is important investigative journalism.)

  • Bianca Hrovat
Instant coffees, put to the taste test.

Moccona, Nescafe or Bushells? Good Food’s instant coffee taste test

Good Food’s blind taste test of 10 cheap and not-so-cheerful instant coffees, from supermarket to specialty.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Which vanilla ice-cream wins the taste-test?

Which vanilla is all killer and which one’s a total drip? 11 supermarket ice-creams, ranked

From Bulla to Blue Ribbon, Gelato Messina and more, Good Food has the scoop on the best (and worst) supermarket vanilla ice-creams.

  • Nina Rousseau
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Joel Young (Butcher Joel Young), Sarah Norris, Nik Hill (Porcine), Callan Boys, Junda Khoo (Ho Jiak), Bianca Hrovat and Danielle Alvarez (Sydney Opera House) take on Christmas hams at Porcine in Paddington.

The ultimate Christmas ham blind taste test reveals cheaper can be better

Chefs, butchers and restaurant reviewers tackle supermarket hams. This year’s winner is salty, sweet, smoky and one of the least expensive.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Our expert panel rank 16 supermarket hams on offer this festive season.
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Ham Taste Test 2024

Our expert panel rank 16 supermarket hams on offer this festive season.

Meat pie with sauce

Squeezy does it: Good Food ranks 12 tomato sauces from gluggy to great

You’ve got the pies, sausage rolls and hot dogs. You’re going to need tomato sauce with that. So which brands came out on top and which ones flopped?

  • Bianca Hrovat
Tomato soup

Pantry staples: The great Good Food tinned tomato soup taste test

The brief: test affordable supermarket tinned tomato soups to see which ones are worth stocking the pantry with over winter. The result? Read on.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Wagon Wheels v Cart Wheels.

Wagon Wheel v Cart Wheel taste test: Are Aldi’s copycats even better than the real thing?

Similar names, similar packaging, but up to half the price. Good Food blind taste-tests popular chocolates against their imitators, with some surprising results.

  • Callan Boys

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