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There’s plenty of reasons to love dining alone, not having to share your meal being just one of them. Just don’t apologise about doing it.

This way you can abandon the bamboo spoon and queues for the loo and actually sit in a seat.

Like it or not, it makes sense, and not just for the property developers.

Terry Durack buys oscietra caviar for himself every birthday. And time stops whenever he eats it.

Dining “a la cart” is doing the rounds again at these Melbourne and Sydney restaurants, writes Terry Durack.

Drinking beer from a can is like drinking coffee from a takeaway coffee cup. I want to ogle my beer before I wear my ‘beer goggles’.

Want to feel like a merman or mermaid? Do a “Shelly” and slurp down a martini.

Frozen yoghurt has grown into much more than a swirly, soft-serve, yoghurt-based, icy-cold treat, writes Terry Durack.

Terry Durack on why a cooking class – the more hands-on the better – is the Christmas gift that keeps on giving.