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Callan Boys is editor of SMH Good Food Guide, restaurant critic for Good Weekend and Good Food writer.

Good Food’s great regional wine bar road-trip (plus great places to stay)

Good Food’s great regional wine bar road-trip (plus great places to stay)

Small towns across NSW are increasingly becoming better places to eat and drink thanks to a proliferation of new wine bars run by young, ambitious teams.

  • by Callan Boys and Good Food Guide Reviewers

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This suburb has its own Chinese restaurant walk of fame, but this tiny gem is my favourite

This suburb has its own Chinese restaurant walk of fame, but this tiny gem is my favourite

Gee, you can eat well and have a beaut old time in the Kwok family’s company.

  • by Callan Boys
It’s easy to see why this Middle Eastern restaurant is thronging every Saturday lunchtime

It’s easy to see why this Middle Eastern restaurant is thronging every Saturday lunchtime

Nour’s new chef sure knows how to have fun with Middle Eastern food.

  • by Callan Boys
The verdict on TV chef Manu Feildel’s French bistro in a Sydney pub
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Rozelle

The verdict on TV chef Manu Feildel’s French bistro in a Sydney pub

Feildel insists he isn’t chasing hats, but when main courses hover around $40, a restaurant still has to get the basics right.

  • by Callan Boys
The reviewers’ guide to the best fine, fun and fuss-free dining spots along the metro

The reviewers’ guide to the best fine, fun and fuss-free dining spots along the metro

Explore new dining destinations within a10-minute walk of five metro line stations.

  • by Bianca Hrovat, Erina Starkey, David Matthews and Callan Boys
‘It’s a vibe’: The secret’s out about this Portuguese dining hall in a tennis clubhouse

‘It’s a vibe’: The secret’s out about this Portuguese dining hall in a tennis clubhouse

Casa Do Benfica is roll-your-sleeves-up, bloody delicious family dining. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

  • by Callan Boys
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The Good Food guide to Sydney’s best 20 bars, right now

The Good Food guide to Sydney’s best 20 bars, right now

Cin, cin. It’s our annual list of the best gin joints, cantinas and cocktail lounges across town.

  • by Callan Boys, Matty Hirsch, Sarah Norris and David Matthews
The regional wine bar with a menu so good, I should have booked an extra night
Review
Merimbula

The regional wine bar with a menu so good, I should have booked an extra night

I was not expecting a full bistro menu with too many beaut-sounding things to try. Nice one, Bar Superette.

  • by Callan Boys
Sydney has a new three-hat restaurant, and it’s in a former pub

Sydney has a new three-hat restaurant, and it’s in a former pub

Josh Niland’s tasting menu showcases the near-limitless potential of fish. But it’s not all livers and eyes and “oh, my!”

  • by Callan Boys
The pasta might have caught your attention, but there are other delights at Attenzione!
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Redfern

The pasta might have caught your attention, but there are other delights at Attenzione!

The wine bar-restaurant is big on personality and flavour, plus great cocktails, mystery wine and head-scratching dish names.

  • by Callan Boys
These are the six best things to eat and drink at North Sydney’s Victoria Cross Station

These are the six best things to eat and drink at North Sydney’s Victoria Cross Station

The Good Food team checked out the new food vendors at the metro line’s much anticipated new station. Here are their picks of the lunch bunch.

  • by Callan Boys, Sarah Norris and Bianca Hrovat

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